News Archive
News, announcments
ENGAGE Data Platform Released
| Najla Rettberg
Just launched!
The ENGAGE project have this week launched a Beta version of their new portal www.engagedata.eu. This exciting new infrastructure is an innovative access point for public sector data (PSI) which is curated, annotated and visualized. This will in turn support cross-disciplinary scientific research, as well as empowering ope…
OpenAIRE/LIBER Workshop May 28, Ghent Belgium
| Najla Rettberg
The past years have seen an increase in the sharing and reuse of data within a range of scientific communities. This will have far reaching effects for the research institution and librarian, not only in terms of discoverability, metadata, standards, but also in terms of infrastructure, skill-sets and practice.Librarians are seeing an increas…
Zenodo Launches!
| Najla Rettberg
Newly launched, Zenodo offers a one-stop-store for research output. Created by OpenAIRE and CERN, and supported by the European Commission, this new-generation online repository offers its service from the OpenAIRE pan-European initiative, which expands the linking of research output to datasets and funding information, in European and national co…
Action Plan towards Open Access Publications - Global Research Council
| Najla Rettberg
"Encouragement - Awareness raising -Support for researchers that wish to provide their results in Open Access" Those were the three key points set out in an Action Plan during the annual Global Research Council Summit held in Berlin on 27 - 29 May 2013. Heads of 70 global science and research councils gathered. Discussions focused in p…
OpenAIRE, LIBER and COAR make recommendations for EC Open Data Pilot
| Birgit Schmidt
With digital data being declared as the 'new gold', the European Commission is developing a pilot to explore ways to make research data open access too. The pilot will look at will look at research data generated in projects funded under the Horizon 2020 framework, with the aim of stimulating the data-sharing culture among researchers and fac…
OA Week 2013 - Redefining Impact
| Open Access Belgium
21-27 October 2013 is Open Access Week!
This year’s theme is ‘Redefining Impact’.
In recent years, the concept of scholarly impact and the way scientific research output is being distributed, has undergone significant changes. The life-cycle of research output no longer ends with publication – and researchers are learning to use the full potentia…
OpenAIRE workshop on Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures
| Najla Rettberg
OpenAIRE is happy to announce its next workshop on 'Legal and Sustainability Issues' in Vilnius, on November 5th. The one-day workshop will present two current OpenAIRE studies: 1) legal implications for the reuse of research data and 2) sustainability issues and long term business models for sustaining OA services.
re3data.org and OpenAIRE sign Memorandum of Understanding
| Najla Rettberg
Contributing to the research data effort - re3data.org and OpenAIRE sign MoU during Open Access Week
October 2013 - Athens and Karlsruhe
In order to foster the sharing of research data in science and humanities, digital research infrastructures need to be in place to ensure the permanent accessibility and re-use of research data. A number of the…
OpenAIRE Workshop - Videos and Slides available!
| Najla Rettberg
Vilnius, 5 November 2013
The workshop focused on the two studíes currently underway in OpenAIRE which examine two important aspects in running an open access infrastructure: 'Legal and Licensing Issues' and 'Sustainability and Business models' . The workshop was attended by nearly 100 people.
Creative Commons 4.0: it's here!
| Open Access Belgium
On November 25th, the latest version of Creative Commons licenses, CC 4.0 was officially launched. Creative Commons licenses are free, easy-to-use and provide a simple, standardized way to allow content creators share and use their creative work with permissions and conditions of their choice. Moreover, as a result of a legal study…
'Open access' a requirement for Horizon 2020
| Najla Rettberg
The European Commission has recently announced its €15 Billion Horizon 2020 Programme, intended to boost the knowledge economy. In its press release it clearly states that there will be:
"... new rules to make 'open access' a requirement for Horizon 2020, so that publications of project results are freely accessible to all."
OpenAIRE webinar on ZENODO – Recording and slides
| Iryna Kuchma
67 participants from 25 countries (Argentina, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda, the UK, Ukraine and the USA) attended the OpenAIRE webinar on ZENODO with Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN) on February 26…
