This post outlines an open approach to documenting community-led metadata enrichment projects, providing examples from COMET’s pilot projects and template …

Many scholarly infrastructure business models fit institutions poorly. They tie cost to transactions, outputs, or rising use in ways that make adoption harder to sustain over time. That is a problem f...

For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initi...

After an exhaustive, international search, the openRxiv Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Tracy Teal as the organization’s inaugural CEO. Dr Teal has served as interim COO of openRxiv since its lau...

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Assigning persistent digital identifiers (Digital Object Identifiers, or DOIs) and using ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor IDs) for key personnel to track outputs for research grants will improv...

Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

Improving research metadata quality requires shared stewardship. The authors show how community-led models like COMET are building a more inclusive research infrastructure.

The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding s...

California Digital Library (CDL) is proud to formally sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and commit to supporting and participating in open, transparent and community-governed research information systems. The values articulated in the Barcelona Declaration – openness, tran

One year ago, on April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was launched. In this post, we want to highlight a number developments during this past year.

Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a develo...

Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a develo...

In recent years, interoperability has become an important concept in the field of research data management.  Discussions about interoperability have taken place in published articles and numerous pres...

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the ‘‘Implementing data evaluation in academia’ Working Group, a partnership between Make Data Count and HELIOS Open . John Chodacki (Director, Universi...

Bibliographic databases should support innovation and experimentation. Here, we offer four criteria for innovation-friendly bibliographic databases. We urge the global research community to use databa...