The Social Life of Data
Martin Hall, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Salford, addresses in his blogpost some interesting questions and positions related to open data: First he states that access to and use of data may be...
View ArticleIncentives for Data Sharing: £8.000 a year for promoting open data!
When I first heard, that the Panton Fellowships offer the possibility to get £8.000 bucks in a year for making scientific data open, I thought this was a joke. Some kind of an idea that might only...
View ArticleBerlin publishes strategy for Open Data of the public administration
On Friday, Stefan Krempl wrote an article for heise.de about the new strategy of the Senate of Berlin to extend its Open Data Portal. Open Data Berlin is the first open data project in Germany for the...
View ArticleOpen Economics Workgroup provides information and data sets
Since spring 2011 the Open Economics Workgroup is active in the UK and beyond. The workgroup is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation in association with the Centre for Intellectual and Property Law...
View ArticleLinking and lightening: LabArchives and BioMed Central creating a new...
Sharing and reuse of data has become a vital part of modern scientific research. Having access to datasets ensures that the pace of scientific discovery is not unnecessarily hindered by data being kept...
View ArticleEC-Survey on Scientific Information in the Digital Age: Open Science matters!
These days, the European Commission has just published the results of a consultation regarding accessibility and preservation of digital publications and research data in the European Union....
View ArticleFound on the ‘net: OpenAIRE, OA in Economics and Benefits of Open Data
Today I want to point the attention of our readers to some actual developments, articles and blog posts. Actually, there are too many interesting topics to be addressed in single posts. Therefore I...
View ArticleUS: “Increasing Public Access to the Results of Scientific Research”– new...
John Paul Holdren, a chief advisor of US-President Obama on science and technology issues, has issued a memorandum that directs those agencies with more than $100 million in research and development...
View ArticleEndorse the Open Economics Principles!
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, the Open Economics Working Group has just finalised the Open Economic Principles. Now it is also possible to endorse these principles online. In an e-mail...
View ArticleEuropean Commission: Open access to research publications reaching ‘tipping...
The European Commission (EC) has released a press statement in which the EC claimed that “the global shift towards making research findings available free of charge for readers—so-called ‘open access’...
View ArticleEuropean Commission held public Consultation on Open Research Data
The European Commission (EC) held a public consultation on open research data. For that purpose the Commission invited stakeholders from various branches and researchers, the industry, funders,...
View ArticleDiscussion: “It’s the Neoliberalism, Stupid: Why instrumentalist arguments...
The following blog post is an interesting point of view in the discussion on open science. It originally appeared on Digging Digitally and is reposted under a CC-BY license. Feel free to comment! The...
View ArticleSave the date: Workshop “Open data, restricted data and the role of libraries”
NEREUS – a network of European libraries in Economics and Social Sciences – is happy to announce a pre-conference workshop (2015-6-23 in London) at this year’s LIBER-Conference. Open Science and open...
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