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 

Equity and inclusion: open science policies

Friday, 23 October 2020

Webinar jointly organised by COAR, EIFL and OpenAIRE on Friday, October

23rd at 12:00 - 13:30 CEST. 

This panel addressed equity and inclusion in recent open science policy developments in Asia and Europe. 

Open Access Week 2020 programme: 

https://www.openaire.eu/openaire-open-access-week-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

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

Friday, 16 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

Plan S: Taking stock of the current situation and new developments

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

This OpenAIRE Policy and Legal Task Force webinar focuses on recent developments around Plan S. Johan Rooryck, cOAlition S Open Access Champion, talks about cOAlition S and what Research funding organizations in cOAlition S want; research visibility; Plan S: strong principles; implementation guidance: key challenges, routes to compliance, transformative arrangements; implementation: developing a Journal Checker Tool; working with key stakeholders: researchers, early career researchers, publishers, universities; and other activities: transparent pricing and Fair Open Access Alliance (FOAA), non-APC funding models and cOAlition S office. Niamh Brennan, Trinity College Dublin and OpenAIRE NOAD in Ireland, talks about Ireland’s experience with its National Open Science Strategy and Plan S: the scholarly publishing landscape in Ireland, Ireland’s Open Access Repository Network and National Open Access Research Portal http://rian.ie, HRB Open Research, National Open Research Forum, mapping national OA Policy to Plan S (1st iteration), National Framework on the Transition to an Open Research Environment – ‘Plan S-friendly’ – but its primary concern is to be more ‘Irish research-friendly, ‘AmeliCA-friendly’ – in terms of its emphasis on academy-based infrastructures and on  alternatives to fee-based publishing and supportive of scholarly communication initiatives in the Global South, stressing equity, bibliodiversity and revisiting the issues of copyright and licences, immediate Open Access & Choice of Open Access Route calling to end publisher embargoes on researchers self-archiving their AAMs, and diamond publishing. The webinar recording also includes questions and discussion.

Cooperative Non-APC Publishing Models

Monday, 11 May 2020

Discussion about non-APC strategies, challenges and recommendations and a global collective action. Arianna Becerril-García (Executive Director, Redalyc, Professor, UAEM, Chair, AmeliCA) talks about AmeliCA - a multi-institutional community-driven initiative supported by UNESCO and led by Redalyc and CLACSO aimed to provide a cooperative, sustainable, protected and non-comercial infrastructure for Open Knowledge. Tanja Niemann (Executive Director, Érudit) and Jason Friedman (Manager, Member and Metadata Services, Canadian Research Knowledge Network) talk about Coalition Publica and the Partnership for Open Access: Canada's Cooperative Non APC Publishing Model. Jean-Claude Guédon discusses the current landscape, challenges, collaborations, "inside-out" libraries (Lorcan Dempsey's vocabulary), and provides recommendations about fostering a richer bibliodiversity and ensuring publication and access equality for all. And Iryna Kuchma (EIFL Open Access Programme Manager, OpenAIRE) presents the OpenAIRE report Towards Sustainable Cooperative and Non-APC Publishing Model. 

Webinar on the OpenAIRE Research Graph

Thursday, 30 January 2020

OpenAIRE is pleased to announce the beta release of its Research Graph, a massive collection of metadata and links between scientific products such as articles, datasets, software, and other research products, entities like organisations, funders, funding streams, projects, communities, and data sources. Due to its coverage and cross-discipline nature, the Research Graph will empower the EOSC catalogue of scientific products.

On January 30th, 2020, OpenAIRE is organizing its final webinar in the first consultation series.

UPDATE: there will be a follow-up consultation in Spring 2020, stay tuned!

Open Science and Research Results Exploitation: friends or foes?

Friday, 29 November 2019

This OpenAIRE and EOSC-hub webinar covers Horizon 2020 rules and good practices approaches to addressing Open Data, Open Science and research results exploitation in Consortium Agreements and in Data Management Plans. It also specifically covers the issues of concern between Open Science and exploitation (patents, spin offs/ outs, confidentiality), business planning and licensing strategies.

Date: Friday, 29 November at 2:00pm CET

This webinar is organised in collaboration with EOSC-Hub

Webinar on the OpenAIRE Research Graph

Tuesday, 19 November 2019

OpenAIRE is pleased to announce the beta release of its Research Graph, a massive collection of metadata and links between scientific products such as articles, datasets, software, and other research products, entities like organisations, funders, funding streams, projects, communities, and data sources. Due to its coverage and cross-discipline nature, the Research Graph will empower the EOSC catalogue of scientific products.

We are collecting feedback! Find out more here.

From Open Science to Inclusive Science

Friday, 25 October 2019

From Open Science to Inclusive Science with Paola Masuzzo

Friday, Oct 25, 2019 from 2pm to 3pm (CEST)

A lot is happening in the Open Science world, as everybody realizes more and more the importance of open, transparent and participatory research practices.

However, we tend to forget, in the ongoing conversations, what Open Science means to different audiences, coming from diverse or even underrepresented backgrounds.

In this webinar, we will be talking about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Inclusiveness.

Masuzzo will make the case that these are non-negotiable and they must be built into the foundation of what we are all trying to achieve in the ongoing efforts of democratizing knowledge.

This webinar is organised in collaboration with Open Science MOOC

Webinar to Support Open Science Policy Creation and Legal Issues

Monday, 20 May 2019

Are you developing an open science policy in your organization? Do you need extra support to align it to other policies, or information on legal issues on research data such as licensing and copyright issues?

 OpenAIRE is offering a series of webinars targeting Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) that explore policy and legal issues around Open Science/ Open Access. The aim of the webinars is to support RPOs and RFOs in developing and/or aligning their Open Science policies by discussing the elements that a policy should include and legal issues that should be taken into consideration, and presenting the ways in which OpenAIRE can support them in their work through the NOAD network.

 The first one-hour webinar will take place on May 20^th, 2019 at 13h CEST and targets stakeholders (from research organisations, funders and ministries) interested in open science policies. The webinar will present the policy templates developed by the OpenAIRE project, followed by examples of practical implementation. The webinar will also focus on how to approach licensing issues in the context of open science policies supported by best practice examples.

This webinar is aimed at: research institutions, research support staff, librarians, policy makers, ministries and funders

Legal and ethical considerations when sharing research data

Tuesday, 23 October 2018

Aimed at researchers in social sciences, but of interest for other fields as well, Irena Vipavc Brvar gives an overview of the most important legal and ethical considerations when sharing research data. She discusses the implications of GDPR for scientific research, informed consent and ethical aspects of dealing with personal data, and legal issues.

Links: https://www.cessda.eu/Research-Infrastructure/Training/Expert-Tour-Guide-on-Data-Management

OpenAIRE Funder Monitoring Dashboard

Monday, 22 October 2018

OpenAIRE has created Open Science monitoring and implementation services for the European Commission and European Research Council in the FP7 and Horizon2020 funding streams. OpenAIRE produces a 360-degree picture of the impact of research funding, whether at the level of programme funding stream or even individual projects. So, now, in real-time, funders can monitor their investment making an impact through the OpenAIRE Funder Monitoring Dashboard which provides funders with tools for a transparent view and assessment of their investments.

Funder Monitoring Dashboard: https://monitor.openaire.eu/

Use case - FWF Austrian funder: https://monitor.openaire.eu/fwf-stats...

OpenAIRE Funder Factsheet: https://www.openaire.eu/factsheet-fun...