OpenAIRE virtual coffee break

Wednesday, 02 December 2020

The Open Science Skills Curriculum: what does it look like at the institutional level? This is a very practical question and we seek to find concrete answers that can be shared across countries and institutions. In particular, we focused on sharing information on:

• The topics covered by Open Science skills courses at the different stages of the researcher career (R1-R4)
• The learning objectives for these courses
• The means of delivery of these courses (online only, blended, face-to-face only, etc).
• The assessment of these courses (and any certification or accreditation).

A multitude of Open Science training courses are being delivered by institutions across Europe (and beyond) to researchers at different stages of their careers. Multiple agencies and groups described their much valuable work in reports and recommendations. However, basic information on curriculum specifics at the institutional level does not appear to be generally available.

It would be useful for those who are designing and updating these courses to be able to benchmark their offerings from the curriculum viewpoint, gaining an insight into the topics and levels of detail that are considered appropriate for doctoral students/early career researchers compared with more established researchers (for example), etc.

Session notes. 

COVID-19: best practices, tools and contact points in Greece

Thursday, 05 November 2020
Friday, 06 November 2020

“COVID-19: best practices, tools and contact points in Greece”

Athena Research Center (ARC), in the context of activities undertaken between OpenAIRE National Open Access Desk, RDA National Node and ELIXIR-GR, organises a new series of informative and educational webinars around COVID-19 research. The digital events are taking place in collaboration with the following scientific institutions: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, National Center for Research & Technology Hellas, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Hellenic Academic Libraries Link, and the research infrastructure Inspired-RIs.

Τhe new series of digital events follows the first webinar held in April that aimed at collecting and promoting all efforts and knowledge around managing the virus crisis to the Greek scientific and academic community. This time, the purpose focuses, also, on knowledge exchange based on Open Science practices and on training in research data management and software development. Indicative subject areas to be covered are:

• information about the current status in Greece, such as the Flagship Action or national accomplishments in clinical studies etc. 
• providing guidance to researchers for Open Science best practices’ implementation through the adoption of Horizon 2020 Guidelines for open access to publications, data and other research outputs
• use of services and tools for research data processing and analysis, open source development and management, such as Argos, OpenRefine, Galaxy etc. 

The first two informative events will be carried out on Thursday 5 November and Friday 6 November at 12.00 - 14.00 p.m EET. During these webinars, the above mentioned institutions and research infrastructures will present the latest developments regarding their activities. 

For any questions you may have, please don’t hesitate to contact us at . 

Programme 

GDPR and training

Wednesday, 28 October 2020

The OpenAIRE Community of Practice for Training coordinators hosted this 1.5 hour-long webinar and collaborative writing sprint on organizing GDPR compliant online events.

Prodromos Tsiavos (Legal Adviser of "Athena" Research & Innovation Center and OpenAIRE) provided good practice advice and Walter Scholger (Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, Universität Graz) talked about the Consent Form Wizard https://consent.dariah.eu/  followed by  discussions on how to make sure that GDPR requirements are properly addressed and personal data is protected. It covered best practices for online event organisation, including pre- and post-event (registration, carrying out, evaluation, etc.). It also addressed the following aspects: how to inform correctly about a session recording and how to make the recordings available (e.g. with public chat messages, etc.), good practices on making collaborative documents (developed at online sessions) publicly available, issues to consider during large online events, how to optimize the online events workflows, whether national differences in Europe play a big role, etc. Plain language templates and checklists were discussed in breakout group writing sprints and will be shared with a wider training community. 

The following good practice recommendations are being developed during the writing sprints: 

1. Before the event: Template/s: plain language wording for online registration forms (disclaimers, permissions, notice that consent could be withdrawn any time) and good practices for online events registration - e.g. a host organization manages registration on its website and has full control of data and a way to safely manage it, event access under password (not a direct link), etc.  Moderator: Rene van Horik (DANS, EOSChub) 
2. During the event: Wording suggestions for recording announcements, disclaimers and permissions (e.g. what will be captured - video, webcam footage, audio, text chat messages and displayed username; inform participants on how to anonymize themselves - change names, blur video, etc; is the participant’s consent needed - in writing - accept and continue at registration or verbal expression is sufficient, etc.). Any other tips for running online events. Moderator: Ellen Leenarts (DANS, OpenAIRE) 
3. After the event: Template/plain language wording to deal with personal data in evaluation/feedback forms. GDPR friendly tools and checklists for making online session materials publicly available - recording, collaborative documents, etc. Checklists/workflows for keeping online events documentation, registration and recording: e.g. beware of not keeping backups with actual names and email addresses; anonymize before backing up and storing, secure storage (encrypted?), etc. Retention period: for how long the data could/should be kept and when it will be deleted, etc. Moderator: Iryna Kuchma (EIFL, OpenAIRE)

Open Access Week: Towards a scholarly commons

Thursday, 22 October 2020

Equity and inclusion: community-owned infrastructures for open science

Wednesday, 21 October 2020

Webinar jointly organised by COAR, EIFL and OpenAIRE. 

This panel:

- discussed why community/good governance is important and how that relates to equity and inclusion
- provided some concrete models of good governance that other infrastructures can adopt in their own context

Speaker bio's:

Dominique Babini

Dominique Babini is from Argentina, holds a doctorate in political science and a postgraduate degree in information science. Open access and open science advisor, and previously repository developer and manager, at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), a network of 736 research institutions in 52 countries, where she now coordinates CLACSO's open access/open science International Campaign.

Janneke Adema

Janneke Adema is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. In her research she explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production, where her work incorporates processual and performative publishing, radical open access, scholarly poethics, media studies, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory. She explores these issues in depth in her various publications, but also by supporting a variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, ScholarLed, and Post Office Press (POP). She is currently Co-PI on the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project (copim.ac.uk). You can follow her research on openreflections.wordpress.com.

Tom Olyhoek

Open Access Week: Public release of the OpenAIRE-DARIAH Community gateway

Tuesday, 20 October 2020

A paramount challenge in present-day knowledge production is to communicate research results in ways that align with our increasingly digital and also increasingly diverse research workflows.

Research discovery platforms that have been developed from EU grants and will remain open to the public are game changers in this respect. They support the visibility and discoverability of all sorts of research outputs (datasets, software, protocols,  teaching materials etc.) to showcase a broader view of scholarship and enable a greater transparency of scholarly communication.

This webinar aims to introduce an instance of them, the OpenAIRE-DARIAH Community Gateway. Built on the top of the OpenAIRE Research Graph, the OpenAIRE Community Gateways  work as single access points to a virtual space that connects metadata descriptions of all scholarly objects that are important to the given community.

The DARIAH dashboard brings together publications and a broad range of research data (digital critical editions, plain text, archived data, audiovisual data, raw data, encoded documents, software applications, source code, images, structured graphics, databases, structured text, scientific and statistical data formats) that are hosted by DARIAH services such as NAKALA and TextGrid. As such, it significantly reduces the fragmentation of DARIAH research outputs across the web. A major benefit of such a discovery environment is that it provides scholarly communities with a single entry point to DARIAH-affiliated research outputs. This entry point, in turn, is embedded into the context of a bigger collection of Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage corpus enabling therefore arts and humanities researchers to find DARIAH outputs more easily, as an integral part of their discovery routine.

The webinar welcomes all the DARIAH communities, including humanities scholars, librarians, research support professionals, service providers and national representatives.

OpenAIRE Week! Building Open Science Gateways to open and linked research outcomes

Friday, 16 October 2020

OpenAIRE Week! OpenAIRE for researchers and beyond

Thursday, 15 October 2020

OpenAIRE Week! OpenAIRE on the European and global stage

Tuesday, 13 October 2020

OpenAIRE on the European and global stage

During this session, we will provide the setting for OpenAIRE on the European and global stage. We will host a panel session where synergies with international, regional and national activities will be discussed.

Panel: European – National – International alignment. The panel will examine the shared building blocks for OS, around policy and infrastructure and identify key takeaways:

• Bianca Amaro (IBICT/LA Referencia, Brazil)
• Judit Fazekas-Paragh (University of Debrecen and National Library, OpenAIRE NOAD, Hungary)
• Pierre Lasou (CARL, Canada)
• Omo Oaiya (WACREN, Nigeria)
• Kathleen Shearer (COAR, Canada)
• Dr. Sa-Kwang Song (KISTI, South Korea)

Q&A

OpenAIRE Week: Kick off

Monday, 12 October 2020

Kick off    

• Welcome - Yannis Ioannidis, Athena Research Centre, Director of OpenAIRE AMKE 
• UNESCO Open Science Recommendations - Ana Persic, Section for Science Policy and Partnerships - Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO
• OpenAIRE in EOSC - Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE Director 
• Five National Perspectives by OpenAIRE NOADs 
  • Pauli Assinen, University of Helsinki
  • Biljana Kosanovic, University of Belgrade
  • Sylvia Koukounidou, University of Cyprus
  • Pedro Principe, University of Minho
  • Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, University of Ghent

OpenAIRE virtual coffee break

Monday, 29 June 2020

A virtual coffee break on Zoom - no presentations, just an informal experience sharing discussion, like you would have at your coffee break. Notes. 

Transformative agreements in Italy

Friday, 26 June 2020

La crisi COVID ha reso ancor più evidente la necessità dell'accesso immediato alla ricerca scientifica.

Sulla spinta delle istanze Open Science e Open Access, anche il mondo della contrattazione per le risorse elettroniche sta cambiando.

I "transformative agreements" sembrano essere lo strumento con il quale gestire in modo efficace la transizione all'accesso aperto e immediato.

Ma cosa sono di preciso i contratti trasformativi? E come si sta muovendo l'Italia?

OpenAIRE organizza un webinar per fare il punto sulla situazione, il 26 giugno, alle 11.

Ne discuteremo con 

- Colleen Campbell, OA2020: Cosa sono i contratti trasformativi e il loro contesto internazionale (30 minuti)

- Nino Grizzuti, coordinatore CARE CRUI: La stagione degli accordi trasformativi. Il contributo CRUI-CARE (15 minuti)

I restanti 15 minuti saranno dedicati alle domande.

Per motivi organizzativi è necessario registrarsi. Il form consente ai partecipanti di anticipare eventuali domande ai relatori.

IL LINK PER PARTECIPARE VERRÀ COMUNICATO VIA EMAIL AGLI ISCRITTI UN’ORA PRIMA DELL’INIZIO

Transformative agreements: a che punto siamo

Friday, 26 June 2020

La crisi COVID ha reso ancor più evidente la necessità dell'accesso immediato alla ricerca scientifica.

Sulla spinta delle istanze Open Science e Open Access, anche il mondo della contrattazione per le risorse elettroniche sta cambiando.

I "transformative agreements" sembrano essere lo strumento con il quale gestire in modo efficace la transizione all'accesso aperto e immediato.

Ma cosa sono di preciso i contratti trasformativi? E come si sta muovendo l'Italia?

OpenAIRE organizza un webinar per fare il punto sulla situazione, il 26 giugno, alle 11.

Ne discuteremo con 

• Colleen Campbell, OA2020: Cosa sono i contratti trasformativi e il loro contesto internazionale (30 minuti)
• Nino Grizzuti, coordinatore CARE CRUI: La stagione degli accordi trasformativi. Il contributo CRUI-CARE (15 minuti)

I restanti 15 minuti saranno dedicati alle domande.

Per motivi organizzativi è necessario registrarsi. Il form consente ai partecipanti di anticipare eventuali domande ai relatori.

IL LINK PER PARTECIPARE VERRÀ COMUNICATO VIA EMAIL AGLI ISCRITTI UN’ORA PRIMA DELL’INIZIO.

Il materiale del webinar verrà reso disponibile su questa pagina alla fine dell'evento.

RGPD y aspectos legales relacionados con la gestión de datos de investigación

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

La Fundación Española para la Ciencia y Tecnología (FECYT), como NOAD para España del proyecto OpenAIRE, organiza este seminario web sobre RGPD y aspectos legales en la gestión de datos de investigación. 

En este webinar se proporcionará una perspectiva legal sobre la gestión de datos de investigación, tanto teórica como práctica: ¿Cómo se manejan los datos personales sensibles en investigación? ¿Cuáles son los posibles problemas de privacidad cuando se utilizan datos personales en una investigación? ¿Qué se necesita saber sobre la RGPD y la nueva directiva PSI?

El contenido del seminario será relevante para investigadores, bibliotecarios y administradores de investigación de todos los campos (incluidas las ciencias sociales y las humanidades). Habrá también tiempo para preguntas y respuestas durante la sesión, además de poder enviar preguntas a través de este formulario.

Una vez realizada la inscripción, recibirá el enlace del seminario web en el correo electrónico recordatorio enviado.

Open Science, Open Access FAIR data, EOSC: three webinars in Italian

Friday, 19 June 2020
Monday, 22 June 2020
Thursday, 25 June 2020

OpenAIRE in collaborazione con l’Unità di progetto Formazione dell’Università di Torino organizza un corso online sui tempi della Open Science, Open Access, dati FAIR e European Open Science Cloud.
In un ciclo di tre incontri della durata di 2 ore ciascuno vedremo insieme

• la crisi della attuale comunicazione scientifica e l’alternativa Open (con strumenti per aprire ogni passo del ciclo della ricerca)
• Open Access in pratica, con una panoramica sulle politiche europee per testi e dati e sulla European Open Science Cloud- come gestire i dati della ricerca, come renderli FAIR – ai fini della European Open Science Cloud – e come aprirli, se e quando possibile.

Open Science Open Access – 1° incontro
LA CRISI DELLA COMUNICAZIONE SCIENTIFICA E L’ALTERNATIVA OPEN
venerdì, giugno 19, 2020
10:00 | (UTC+02:00) | 2 ore

Open Science Open Access – 2° incontro
lunedì, giugno 22, 2020
14.00 | (UTC+02:00) | 2 ore

Open Science Open Access – 3° incontro