The "IFLA Division D Mid-term Meeting", hosted by Koç University, took place in Istanbul on June 5-7, 2024 and was a resounding success, gathering over 80 participants, from 57 different institutions and 16 different countries. Offering a broad spectrum cover of all aspects of Open Science, this event provided a platform for researchers, librarians, data managers, and scientific infrastructure developers to discuss critical issues, such as Open Access and the Role of Collection Development,...

The Creating Knowledge 2024 conference, held from 5-7 June 2024 at the University of Helsinki, focused on "Think Before You Click: Responsibility in the Digital Information Landscape" exploring themes of digital literacy, AI in education, and open education practices. OpenAIRE's presence was integral to the conference, emphasizing its mission to promote Open Science and responsible digital practices. OpenAIRE's tools and services, such as the OpenAIRE Graph, were showcased to support researchers...

The historic city of Krakow became a nexus of innovation and collaboration as it hosted a pivotal three-day workshop dedicated to advancing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). From 10 to 12 June 2024, key stakeholders from across the continent gathered to participate in this event, which was delivered under the Work Package 15 (WP15) of the EOSC Beyond project. Led by ACC Cyfronet AGH and coordinated by the EGI Foundation, this workshop marked a significant milestone in the quest to enhance ...

We are thrilled to announce that OpenAIRE participated as an exhibitor at the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI), held from June 2-5, 2024, at the stunning premises of Megaron Athens International Conference Centre (MAICC). This prestigious event took place in Athens, Greece, drawing together researchers, academics, and professionals from across the globe to discuss the pivotal issues surrounding research integrity. The WCRI Conference is renowned for its international outlook, br...

OPEN is a part of the Open Science Platform (pon.edu.pl) at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw (icm.edu.pl). Formerly known to the Polish academic community as the CeON Repository, it enables Polish researchers from all fields to openly share their articles, books, conference materials, reports, doctoral theses, and other scientific texts. Publications in the Repository are indexed by the most important aggregators and search engines, ...

A talk with Marcel Wrzesinski The project "Professionalization of the Open-Access Repository Infrastructure in Germany" (Pro OAR DE), launched in October 2023 at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, aims to support institutional repositories in advancing systems based on the current needs of the research community. Initially, these repositories focused on storing electronic documents and ensuring their long-term availability. Today, they are integral components of the scientific...

Khayala Hajiyeva, Director of the Library Information Center at Azerbaijan Technical University, and Iltifat Ibrahimov, Senior Consultant on Digitization and Library Systems, recently traveled to Finland to attend training sessions for the "Developing Research Capacity through Institutional Repository Network in Azerbaijan" (DIRNA) project.  Funded by the Erasmus+ KA2 program, the DIRNA project aims to sustainably enhance the practices of research output management in the Azerbaijani higher...

Gultekin Gurdal, the Library Director at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) and an executive board member of OpenAIRE AMKE, attended the Polish Open Science Conference that took place 10–12 April 2024. This key event, focused on all aspects of Open Science, provided a platform for researchers, librarians, data managers, and scientific infrastructure developers to discuss critical issues such as Open Access publishing, research data management, and the European Open Scienc...

Closing the year: The last webinar of the OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus collaboration series for 2023 focused on the importance of Data Management Plans (DMPs) and their creation in ARGOS. The webinar was attended by 150 participants who had the opportunity to discuss their questions directly with Elli Papadopoulou, OpenAIRE NOAD in Greece and product manager of ARGOS.  Significance In the first part of the presentation, Elli shared the value of DMPs in Research Data Management (RDM) clarif...

Ireland's National Research Integrity Forum (NRIF) was founded in 2015 with the aim to promote research integrity (RI) and excellence in research through a collegial approach. The NRIF has many national initiatives from implementing a National RI online training program across all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and revising the national policy statement to publishing a framework for ensuring RI in collaborations. It has hosted national events in "Advancing a shared direction on research as...

It all began in Vienna in 2008 when the PHAIDRA repository went online at the University of Vienna in Austria. In cooperation between the university library and the computer center, a digital location was created where researchers could archive their scientific materials in all formats for the long term and make them accessible to the public worldwide: PHAIDRA repository. With an optimally designed metadata editor, all members of the university were able to upload data themselves and then m...

Step into the world of OpenAIRE with Seán Harnett. Learn more about his journey, vision, thoughts and achievements in the Open Science community and beyond. Enjoy! Can you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background and expertise?  My name is Seán Harnett. I live with my family in a small village in an Irish-speaking community in Connemara, to the west of Galway City. I started out my career in information architecture and instructional design before moving into d...

Within the scope of the DIRNA Project, Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) hosted a study tour on November 15-17, 2023 with the participation of 16 people from 8 Azerbaijan HEIs. The study tour aimed to share information about Open Science and Institutional Repository practices at Izmir Institute of Technology and to support AZHEIs, in developing their own applications.   About DIRNA Project: The Establishment of Institutional Repository Network in Azerbaijan (DIRNA) Proje...

CRIS systems usually play a vital role in scientific communities. The question is if they could be used for boosting and measuring the implementation of Open Access and Data policies at research-performing organizations. In the last 6 years there has been huge progress in the implementation of the repository network within Serbia. Starting from the national PhD thesis portal (2015), today the country now hosts about 86 Research Performing Organizations (RPO) with their own repositories. The majo...

New Season: The representatives of OpenAIRE in Greece and Cyprus held a successful webinar focused on the discovery of Open Science scientific results. They invited Konstantina Galouni, product manager in OpenAIRE, and George Papanikos, CTO of CITE, to inform the Greek and Cypriot academic and research communities about OpenAIRE Explore service and Open Science Lens web application. The webinar was attended by 178 Greek and Cypriot researchers, students, academic staff and librarians. ...

Α full-day training programme to a community of people from different regions of Türkiye and disciplines, but with a common goal of open science and a shared belief in the importance of EOSC.  Background: On the 17th and 18th of July 2023, the Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) hosted an EOSC Train the Trainer Workshop as part of the EOSC Future project. The workshop's main goal was to increase researchers' knowledge of EOSC and to promote the use of EOSC services and tools in Türkiye. ...

2 August 2023 marks the beginning of the project "SPOZNAJ - Support for the Implementation of Open Science Principles in Slovenia". This initiative involves the Central Technical Library at the University of Ljubljana and 20 Slovenian public research organizations, all of which will align their practices with the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act, the Regulation on the Implementation of Scientific Research in Alignment with the Principles of Open Science, and the practices and pr...

The importance of research data management and sharing has been highlighted in the past few years among research communities in Poland. One of the main factors was the development and introduction of the National Science Centre's open science policy.   The National Science Centre has implemented open-access solutions with respect to research data and publications. In 2019, the agency included a Data Management Plan (DMP) in its application forms. In 2020, it adopted Open...

On 31 May 2023, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia adopted the Action Plan for Open Science which is the basic implementation document to support complying with provisions on Open Science. These are determined in the Resolution on the Slovenian Scientific Research and Innovation Strategy 2030 and elaborated in more detail in the Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act and the recently adopted governmental Decree on the Implementation of Scientific Research Work in Accordance wi...

Last year Slovenia set up its directions in the field of scientific research. This includes the new Scientific Research and Innovation Activities Act (came into force at the beginning of 2022) and the Resolution on the Slovenian Scientific Research and Innovation Strategy 2030 (came into force at the end of March 2022). As we have already announced in the strategy and research act blogs (Open Science in the recently adopted Resolution on the Slovenian Scientific Research and Innovation Strategy ...