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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
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The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
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ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
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At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
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The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
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21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
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RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
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1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
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Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
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Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
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The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
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Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
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eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
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4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
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PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
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PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
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ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
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EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
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Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
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Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
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Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
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OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
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At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
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The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
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Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
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Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
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Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
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Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
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ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
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The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
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41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
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The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
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Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
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eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
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4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
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PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
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Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
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Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
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Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
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At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
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The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
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“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
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Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
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Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
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International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
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ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
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The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
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41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
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The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
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Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
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eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
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4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
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EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
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PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
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Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
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At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
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EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
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How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
RDAP Summit 2022: Envisioning an Inclusive Data Future The Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit will be held online March…
Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
Online from Luxembourg to the world: The Publications Office of the European Union is organising the first EU Open Data Days Data is a…
PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…
14th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (17 July 2019)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
The National Research Agency (ANR) has asked the Open Science Committee for its opinion and recommendations on the implementation of…
ESOF2020 – EuroScience Open Forum POSTPONED to 2 – 6 September 2020 - (21 June 2019)
In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, EuroScience and the Fondazione Internazionale Trieste announce the postponement of the 2020 edition of…
PUBMET2019 Conference - (21 June 2019)
The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science. The PUBMET2019 conference will present innovative approaches, best…
Criteria for the eligibility of projects for funding by the National Fund for Open Science - (14 June 2019)
A number of criteria, qualified as exemplarity criteria, have been defined by the Committee for Open Science. They will be…
FORCE2019 - (23 May 2019)
The FORCE11 annual conference is a different kind of meeting, where stakeholders come together – or scrummage – for an…
2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (23 May 2019)
We are pleased to announce that registrations are now open for the 2019 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, which…
Toward the certification of open access books - (22 May 2019)
A new foundation, named the Directory of open access books (DOAB), has just been launched, gearing up Europe with a…
13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (20 May 2019)
Motivations The 13th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR'19) will be held at the Marconi University in Rome,…
15th International Digital Curation Conference - (17 May 2019)
Overview The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the Digital Repository…
RDA 14th Plenary: “Data Makes the Difference” - (16 May 2019)
RDA 14th Plenary in Finland brings together data experts in research, industry and policy-making from all around the world and…
Data Summit 2019 - (17 April 2019)
“From Structured Text to Knowledge Graphs: Creating RDF Triples From Published Scholarly Data.” At Data Summit 2019, you’ll hear the…
Research Policy Monitoring in the Era of Open Science and Big Data: the what (indicators) and the how (infrastructures) - (15 April 2019)
A two day workshop exploring mechanisms for research policy monitoring and indicators: discussing the what 'indicators' and the how: infrastructure.…
6th World Conference on Research Integrity - (10 April 2019)
The 6th World Conference on Research Integrity (WCRI) in Hong Kong, which is co-organized by Melbourne, will explore the application…
The French National Research Agency (ANR) has launched a “Flash” call for ideas on open sciences - (4 April 2019)
French National Research Agency (ANR) "Flash" call for ideas on open sciences is a planned component of the national plan…
Open Science and Open Innovation - (4 April 2019)
ICSTI’s 2019 Annual Conference and Workshops will take place in China on 24-26 September. This year’s conference is titled ‘OPEN…
eArchiving Geopreservation Conference - (4 April 2019)
The European Commission Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) eArchiving Building Block (including the E-ARK4ALL Consortium), the Archives of the Republic of…
Building Open Science in Europe: The road ahead for the EOSC community and the EU Member States - (4 April 2019)
The eInfraCentral project invites current and potential users of the European Open Science Cloud, service providers from Research Infrastructures and e-Infrastructures, national…
2nd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Sustaining Open, Responsible and Innovative Research” - (14 March 2019)
The OSFAIR is an international event for topics related to Open Science and is a joint initiative of several European…
4th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme - (11 March 2019)
Transforming Land Systems for People and Nature Land use is key for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development…
17th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics - (8 March 2019)
The ISSI 2019 Conference will provide an international forum for scientists, research managers and administrators, as well as information and…
EOSC-hub Week 2019 - (4 March 2019)
Following the success of last year's edition, EOSC-hub Week is back in its 2nd installment which will take place on 10-12 April 2019 at the…
OAI 11: “Open Science – its impact and potential as a driver for radical change” - (25 February 2019)
The Scientific Committee for OAI 11 – The CERN-UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication is pleased to announce that…
FAIR and Responsible Research Data Management (FAIR-RRDM) - (22 February 2019)
A Drexel Metadata Research Centre and CODATA workshop on knowledge sharing between research communities and research institutions, pre-event to the…
US open data legislation - (21 February 2019)
The Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was promulgated on January 14, 2019 . By signing it…
COAR Annual Meeting 2019 - (21 February 2019)
The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD) are pleased to announce that…
DCMI 2019 - (19 February 2019)
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) annual international conference in 2019 will be hosted by the National Library of Korea,…
CODATA 2019: “Towards next-generation data-driven science: policies, practices and platforms” - (8 February 2019)
The CODATA 2019 Conference will be held on 18-19 September 2019 in Beijing, China. This year’s conference theme is: Towards…
PIDapalooza 2019 - (30 January 2019)
PIDapalooza is back and better than ever! The two-day Persistent Identifier festival returns January 23-24, 2019. California Digital Library, Crossref,…
RDA Thirteenth Plenary Meeting - (30 January 2019)
Data professionals, researchers, industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policymakers from all disciplines and geographies will reconvene from April 2-4, in Philadelphia,…
Open Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2019 is the 6th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Science 2.0. It is dedicated…
Open Science in Psychology 2019 - (30 January 2019)
As a response to the replication crisis in psychology, the last six years witnessed the development and implementation of various…
Sustainable non-APC publishing models (9th OpenAIRE workshop) - (30 January 2019)
An interactive learning opportunity for Non-APC based publishers and fora To continue the efforts of OpenAIRE to provide support to…
PASIG 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas of El Colegio de Mexico and the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG, http://www.preservationandarchivingsig.org/)…
14th International Digital Curation Conference | “Collaborations and Partnerships: addressing the big digital challenges together” - (30 January 2019)
The 14th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run in partnership with the University of Melbourne.…
International Data Science Conference 2019 - (30 January 2019)
The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing…
The Committee for Open Science’s reply on the guide for the implementation of Plan S (watchpoints) - (25 January 2019)
The Commitee for Open Science has published a short reply to the online consultation run by the cOAlition S on…
The Committee for Open Science’s recommendations for the implementation of Plan S - (25 January 2019)
The Committee for Open Science has made recommendations on the 10 points of the Plan S in response to a…
2018: a good year for open access - (16 January 2019)
Every year Heather Morrison reports on the past year with figures on her blog The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics. For…
Update of the analysis of the Open Data and Open Science policies in Europe (SPARC/DCC) - (4 January 2019)
SPARC has put a report online which updates information on European policies on open data and science by concentrating on…
Building Bibliodiversity with Multiple Approaches. Joint Statement of the French Open Science Committee, promotors of the Jussieu Call, and the Open Access 2020 Initiative - (20 December 2018)
During the 14th Berlin Open Access Conference, on 3-4 December 2018, a joint statement was drafted by the French Open…
The guide to setting up Plan S - (3 December 2018)
The cOAlition S has just published the guide to setting up Plan S. The document is seven pages long, and…
National Open Science Days – JNSO 2018 - (29 November 2018)
The programme for the first National Open Science Days (JNSO) is online. These days will be on December 4th, 5th…
Vienna Declaration on the European Open Science Cloud - (23 November 2018)
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was launched on November 23rd 2018 at an event organized in Vienna by the…
Making FAIR principles reality - (23 November 2018)
The European Commission's group of experts' final report and action plan on FAIR data have just been published. They highlight…
The need for a strong, harmonized legal framework in TDM - (15 November 2018)
LIBER and other organizations – Allied for Startups, the League of European Research Universities (LERU), the European University Association (EUA) and…
The Wellcome and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations have joined the “cOAlition S” - (6 November 2018)
In a statement dated November 5th 2018, Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that they are joining the…
Elpub2019 - (30 October 2018)
In 2019, the Electronic Publishing conference will expand your horizons and perceptions! Taking as an inspirational starting point the term…
About the proposal for software indicators in Open Science Monitor - (19 September 2018)
Proposal from the French Open science committee - Free and open source group / Proposition du Comité pour la science…
Open science: adoption in 11 European countries and for ERC programmes of obligatory open access for publications - (6 September 2018)
On Tuesday September 4th 2018, 11 National research funding organizations announced the launch of cOAlition S, with the support of…
Feedback on EC Open Science Monitor Methodological note - (31 August 2018)
Feedback from the French Open science committee / Commentaires du Comité pour la science ouverte (PDF) The draft methodological note[1]…
The first newsletter of the coalition concerning the sustainability of services for open science (SCOSS) - (10 August 2018)
The SCOSS coalition (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) is a network of institutions engaged in securing the future…
The national plan for open science - (4 July 2018)
Today, Wednesday July 4th 2018, Frédérique VIDAL, Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation revealed the national plan for open…
Guide for the application of the law for a Digital Republic (article 30) – Scientific texts - (25 May 2018)
This guide was written by researchers, lawyers and professionals of scientific and technical information* to inform researchers clearly and simply…
Critical study of the new ways of “editorialising” open access scientific journals - (27 October 2016)
This report, commissioned by BSN 4 and BSN 7, is concerned with the new ways in which open access journals…
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OASPA2023 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (30 March 2023)
The 2023 online conference will encourage participants to consider how we might all work towards truly equitable and inclusive open…
The French Open Science Monitor 2022: 67% of publications in open access and new indicators for research data and codes and software - (28 March 2023)
The Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes the results of the French Open Science Monitor for 2022. The rate…
A series of videos based on the Passport for Open Science - (20 March 2023)
The series of videos based on the practical guide Passport for Open Science is now available on Canal U. It…
Study on the data professions - (17 March 2023)
Producing, preparing, crossing, describing and sharing research data requires specific skills. After a literature review about skills for FAIR data,…
Open Science Conference 2023 - (13 March 2023)
The Open Science Conference is an annual international conference dedicated to the Open Science movement. It provides a unique forum…
FORCE2023 - (13 March 2023)
Thinking/Acting: The Global and the Local Join us to discuss open science in global and local contexts. We’re building an…
EOSC#6 General Assembly - (13 March 2023)
The 6th EOSC Association General Assembly will be a face-to-face meeting held on 22-23 May 2023 in Brussels, and we very much…
Towards a FAIRer World: Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science to address global challenges - (24 February 2023)
Introduction to the Symposium The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) provides an international framework for the global transformation of societies towards…
Publication of a guide to the application of the Law for a Digital Republic as regards research data - (23 February 2023)
The French Committee for Open Science has published a guide that presents and explains the different provisions on opening research…
How to choose an electronic lab notebook ? - (30 January 2023)
The outputs of the Electronic Laboratory Notebooks working group were first published in French in 2022 and are now available…
Publication of the French National Fund for Open Science’s activity report - (20 January 2023)
The French National Fund for Open Science's first activity report provides a summary of the work carried out over the…
3rd Open Science Conference - (18 January 2023)
From 8 to 10 February 2023 – in the lead-up to the International Day of Women and Girls in Science –,…
Second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage - (18 January 2023)
The second annual symposium and summit on Software Heritage will take place on February 7th 2023, at UNESCO headquarters in…
LIBER Winter Event - (5 January 2023)
LIBER’s first-ever Winter Event (formerly known as the LIBER Mid-Term Event) will be held in person on the 1st – 2nd of December 2022 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in…
TRIPLE Conference 2023 - (5 January 2023)
The presentations Since 2019 the TRIPLE project has been developing the multilingual discovery platform GoTriple, aiming to facilitate interdisciplinary research and…
COAR Annual Meeting 2023 - (5 January 2023)
COAR is pleased to announce that the COAR Annual Meeting 2023 will take place in Costa Rica on May 16-18, 2023. The meeting…
How much do APCs cost French research institutions? - (4 January 2023)
The French Ministry of Higher Education and Research publishes a study that quantifies the costs generated by article processing charges…
Data Management Clusters: the ecosystem is growing - (13 December 2022)
Eleven applications were received in the framework of the second call for expressions of interest in 'Data Management Clusters' with…
Release of the English version of the rights retention strategy guide - (2 December 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques a tool for researchers is now also…
LIBER 2023 - (29 November 2022)
The Call for Papers for the upcoming LIBER Annual Conference is now open. The deadline for submitting a proposal is the…
The fourth call for SCOSS funding - (29 November 2022)
The SCOSS (Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) coalition has launched its fourth call for funding for three new…
The National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) launches its call for projects on open scientific and scholarly publishing - (16 November 2022)
The call for projects is open until February 22, 2023. It benefits from a co-funding from the French National Research…
Research software as a pillar of open science - (4 November 2022)
In February 2022, the Committee for Open Science created the Source Codes and Softwares College from the "Free and Open…
Open science as an element of an effective research system - (25 October 2022)
Science Europe has published a policy paper called "Open Science As Part of a Well-Functioning Research System" which presents three…
CoARA: a coalition promoting change in research evaluation - (24 October 2022)
The 'Coalition on Advancing Research Assessment' (CoARA) will be set up by the end of 2022. It is intended to…
The Passport for Open Science collection has been enriched - (24 October 2022)
Since 2020, the Passport for Open Science has been supporting young researchers in putting Open Science into practice. It is…
‘Décliner la science ouverte’ (Presenting All the Facets of Open Science) - (21 October 2022)
A field survey of research professionals was the basis for the 'Décliner la science ouverte' (Presenting All the Facets of…
Publication of the proceedings of the European Open Science Conference - (13 October 2022)
The proceedings of the Open Science European Conference (OSEC 2022), which were held in Paris and online on 4 and…
DOAPR : a new directory for preprints servers - (12 October 2022)
The Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe (CCSD) and the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) announced on 5 October…
Preserving our Landmark Legacy Software: Collect, Archive, Display - (11 October 2022)
Software Heritage organises SWHAP Days, a two-day workshop to reflect on the current state and the future of software preservation, exploring challenges and…
re3data COREF/ CoreTrustSeal Workshop on Data Quality Management at Repositories - (28 September 2022)
Data quality assurance is a fundamental issue for repositories that seek to ensure trust in their services. This workshop focuses…
Open Repositories 2023 - (26 September 2022)
The 18th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2023) will be held from 12-15 June 2023 at the Lord Charles Hotel, Somerset…
Twenty-Fourth International Conference on Grey Literature - (26 September 2022)
For over three decades, authors and researchers in the field of information have addressed the many challenges in publishing grey…
RDA 20th Plenary Meeting - (8 September 2022)
The Call for Sessions for RDA's 20th Plenary is now Open. After two years of virtual plenaries and a successful…
The Open Science Research Data Awards - (8 September 2022)
For the first year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research will be awarding the Open Science Research Data Awards.…
The Council of the European Union in favour of open science - (8 September 2022)
The Council's conclusions on research evaluation and the implementation of open science proposed by the French Presidency of the European…
The rights retention strategy: user’s instructions - (8 September 2022)
The Mettre en œuvre la stratégie de non-cession des droits sur les publications scientifiques (Implementing the rights retention strategy for…
EOSC Association General Assembly - (8 August 2022)
Save the date for General Assembly #6, it will be an online event taking place on 28 - 29 November 2022 starting around 12:00 on the…
The Minister of Higher Education and Research has co-signed the international call for immediate open access to scientific data on monkeypox - (5 August 2022)
The world is currently faced with a new infectious epidemic while continuing to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Research representatives from…
Diamond Open Access Conference - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are organising a ‘Diamond Open Access Conference’ on…
Science Europe Open Science Conference 2022 - (22 July 2022)
Science Europe invites institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their career, and experts from the field to join its…
PUBMET2022 Conference - (12 July 2022)
The 9th Conference on Scholarly Communication in the Context of Open Science We welcome you to take part in the PUBMET2022 conference,…
On July 8th 2022, French Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau inaugurated Recherche Data Gouv, an ecosystem for…
The Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium planning committee would like to thank all presenters and attendees who participated…
The French National Fund for Open Science is supporting Ukrainian scientific publishing - (24 June 2022)
The French National Open Science Fund is contributing to the "Supporting Ukrainian Editorial Staff" campaign to preserve scientific publishing capacity…
FORCE2022 - (9 June 2022)
Save the Date! The FORCE11 annual conference will be held online December 6-8, 2022. We are beginning the organizing process…
17th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing - (25 May 2022)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
FDO2022 – 1st International Conference on FAIR Digital Objects - (25 May 2022)
"Turning the Internet into a meaningful data space" We have been living a data revolution for decades now. Every day,…
OASPA 2022 Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing - (24 May 2022)
We are pleased to announce that the OASPA 2022 annual conference will take place online from 20 -22 September 2022.…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2022 - (10 May 2022)
The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse…
Alternative Publishing Platforms - (6 May 2022)
Are you confused by all the ‘alternative’ scholarly publishing platforms that have emerged over recent years? A Knowledge Exchange working…
MDG Conference 2022 : “Metadata and Discovery” - (26 April 2022)
Proposals are invited for the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “Metadata and Discovery” to be held from…
DCMI 2022 - (26 April 2022)
In 2022, the twentieth International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications (DC-2022) is expanding its scope to the whole…
EOSC-Pillar Final Event - (19 April 2022)
Description and Scope The EOSC-Pillar Final Event: Building an EOSC from National Contributions will highlight some of the main results…
ETD 2022 – FAIRness of ETDs - (11 April 2022)
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination,…
The French National Fund for Open Science is continuing to support international open science infrastructures - (7 April 2022)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) is providing financial support for three international infrastructures chosen by SCOSS -…
COAR Annual meeting 2022 - (29 March 2022)
The Role of Repositories in the Radical Transformation of Scholarly Communications With COVID-19 and the UNESCO Open Science Recommendation, open…
A look back at the European Open Science Conference now online - (16 March 2022)
The presentations and videos of the OSEC 2022 conference held in Paris on 4 and 5 February, are available from…
CRIS2022: Linking research information across data spaces - (3 March 2022)
15th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems CRIS 2022 is organised by euroCRIS in cooperation with the Ministry of Science…
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science World Forum - (28 February 2022)
In January 2020, most organizations laid out ambitious plans, covering a complete roadmap to steer themselves through the months to…
International Conference on Research Infrastructures - (28 February 2022)
In October 2022, Brno will host a gathering of leaders in the field of research infrastructures – their users, policymakers,…
EOSC#4 General Assembly - (28 February 2022)
The next meeting of the General Assembly of the EOSC Association will take place on 24th and 25th May 2022,…
Digital Assembly - (14 February 2022)
The Digital Assembly is an event in the European Digital Agenda co-hosted by the countries holding the presidency of the…
Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software - (7 February 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation is presenting the first Open Science Awards for Open Source Research Software.…
ESFRI 20th anniversary conference - (28 January 2022)
European Research Infrastructures at the heart of scientific discoveries As part of the French Presidency of the Council of the…
EOSC Symposium 2022 - (28 January 2022)
The EOSC Symposium is the main EOSC annual event and this year takes place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 14 -17 November 2022. Over…
The French Open Science Monitor has been given a makeover - (28 January 2022)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation has launched a renewed and greatly enriched version of the French Open…
Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) - (19 January 2022)
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Open Repositories 2022 - (19 January 2022)
We are pleased to announce the dates, theme, and venue for Open Repositories 2022. It will be held 6th –…
OSEC: Paris Open Science European Conference - (10 January 2022)
In the framework of the French presidency of the European Union, France is organising the 'Paris Open Science European Conference"…
3rd ESFRI RIs -EOSC Workshop: What does EOSC bring to RI users? - (4 January 2022)
The 3rd Workshop on the connection of ESFRI Research Infrastructures (RIs) to the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) titled will…
17th International Digital Curation Conference - (10 December 2021)
IDCC is an established annual event reaching out to individuals, organisations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in…
Applications are now open for candidates for the Open Science Research Data Prize - (10 December 2021)
As set out in the Second National Plan for Open Science, the Open Science Research Data Award's aim is to…
iPRES 2022 - (7 December 2021)
Digital preservation is a shared challenge, and it’s the challenge the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) has faced since our foundation…
UNESCO has adopted its Recommendation on Open Science – a major step towards a shared vision for open science worldwide - (6 December 2021)
At the end of its General Conference on November 24th 2021, UNESCO adopted a Recommendation on Open Science. The text…
Results of the National Fund for Open Science’s second call for projects in favour of open scientific publishing - (29 November 2021)
The Steering Committee for Open Science has selected 26 winners in the framework of the National Fund for Open Science's…
Software Heritage, an archive to enable our digital future - (26 November 2021)
Software is all around us: it powers our industry, fuels innovation, supports scientific research and lies at the heart of…
21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining - (23 November 2021)
The IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) has established itself as the world’s premier research conference in data mining.…
RDA 19th Plenary Meeting - (4 November 2021)
Part of International Data Week The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance…
1st TRIPLE International Conference (Virtual Event) - (13 October 2021)
Empowering Discovery in Open Social Sciences and Humanities The goal of the conference is to create space for discussing the…
Towards a French Open Science Monitor for research data and software codes - (11 October 2021)
The French Open Science Monitor was created in 2019 in the framework of the National Plan for Open Science. It…
Open Science Research Data Awards - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Open Science Free Software Award - (11 October 2021)
The Open Science Research Data and Open Science Free Software awards were part of the second National Plan for Open…
Second National Plan for Open Science | 2021-2024 - (8 October 2021)
France has adopted a Second National Plan for Open Science which extends, reinforces and renews the actions carried out during…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2022 - (6 October 2021)
Key Facts about the Conference a three-day virtual conference, free to attend, present, and publish, 3 great keynote speakers 500+…
Paris Open Science European Conference (OSEC) - (1 October 2021)
The event was originally planned to be held at the Academy of Sciences. Due to the pandemic, it will be…
EAHIL 2022 - (27 September 2021)
After two years of only virtual events it is our pleasure to welcome you either in person or virtually to…
FORCE2021 - (27 September 2021)
FORCE11 is pleased to announce that its annual conference for 2021 will be held online under the theme “FORCE2021: Joining…
Let’s work together to build a healthy Open Science ecosystem! - (24 September 2021)
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS), a part of SPARC Europe, has successfully supported two pledging rounds…
Open Science Conference - (24 September 2021)
The Open Science Conference 2022 is the 9th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
DCMI Virtual 2021 - (16 September 2021)
The theme of 2021 DCMI Virtual is Metadata Innovation. The programme will include virtual, invited and moderated sessions including keynotes,…
Research data: a strategic subject - (15 September 2021)
The issue of data is a strategic subject and was the subject of a report commissioned by the French Prime…
Recherche Data Gouv, the federated national research data platform - (15 September 2021)
Recherche Data Gouv: a national federated research data platform will be available in the first quarter of 2022 as the…
20th International Semantic Web Conference - (7 September 2021)
The 20th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2021) is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph…
EGI Conference 2021: Beyond the Horizon – Shaping the Digital Future - (7 September 2021)
This year, they are looking at how EGI ((EGI : European Grid Infrastructure)) Federation is contributing to shaping the digital…
2nd Gaia-X Summit - (6 September 2021)
This year's Summit will showcase how data and services are shared in the trusting environment of the Gaia-X ecosystem, bringing…
10th Annual Meeting of the GRC - (2 September 2021)
The 10th GRC (Global Research Council) Annual Meeting will held from 30 May to 3 June 2022 in Panama. The…
78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting - (1 September 2021)
The 78th ESFRI Forum Plenary Meeting will be held on 6-7 December 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of…
Twenty-Third International Conference on Grey Literature - (4 August 2021)
Digital Transformation of Grey Literature: Exploring Next Generation Grey Grey literature is once again at a crossroads in its known…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (4 August 2021)
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PUBMET2021 Conference - (4 August 2021)
The 8th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science We welcome you to take part in PUBMET2021…
LIBER 2022 - (3 August 2021)
LIBER 2022: Slide & Poster Presentations LIBER, together with the University Library of Southern Denmark / Syddansk Universitetsbibliotek (SDU), are…
15th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research - (30 July 2021)
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR 2021 goes Online Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and…
PRW 2021: “Identity in Peer Review” - (15 July 2021)
Mark your calendar for Peer Review Week (PRW) 2021, September 20-24. This year’s event is dedicated to the theme “Identity…
On the road to opening up research codes - (8 July 2021)
Article written by Camille Maumet with contributions from all the members of GPLO, the Committee for Open Science's 'free and…
TDWG 2021 | Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools - (7 July 2021)
The theme for TDWG 2021 is Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes, and tools. In addition to…
3rd Open Science FAIR Conference: “Fostering local and global open science communities” - (7 July 2021)
Open science (also referred to as open scholarship) is at a crossroads. Implementation and adoption are progressing, with researchers, research…
RDA 18th Plenary Meeting - (24 June 2021)
24 September 2021 : The RDA Virtual Plenary 18 (VP18) draft programme is now available at https://www.rd-alliance.org/rdas-18th-plenary-meeting-programme, with a revised…
“Data policy” linked to publications: recommendations to journals - (23 June 2021)
Article written by Romain Féret, member of the Committee for Open Science's Research Data College. The Research Data College has…
This is another tangible step forward for immediate open access to scientific publications The no-transfer of rights strategy was initiated…
Dataverse Community Meeting 2021 - (3 June 2021)
Dataverse is an open-source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore, and analyze research data. At the Dataverse Community Meeting…
Contract models for public publishing - (26 May 2021)
The "Copyright" working group has just updated its Recommendations and legal aspects related to the creation and dissemination of a…
Two new working groups in the field of health research - (25 May 2021)
Two new working groups have been set up within the Committee for Open Science. These are disciplinary groups in health,…
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 OASPA Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing.…
Publication of a study on “Diamond” Journals - (11 May 2021)
Article by Pierre Mounier ((Pierre Mounier is also the coordinator of the OPERAS project, associate director of OpenEdition and co-director…
The feasibility of a generic simple data hosting and dissemination service: ambitions and scenarios - (10 May 2021)
The third study by the Committee for Open Science's "Generic Simple Data Hosting and Dissemination Service" group is now online.…
Blog post written by Quentin Dufour, David Pontille and Didier Torny, Project “Socio-Economics of Academic Publications”, The Committee for Open…
OPECST report: scientific integrity, evaluation and open science - (20 April 2021)
On March 4th, the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) adopted the report Promouvoir et protéger…
Open Education Global 2021 - (14 April 2021)
The annual Open Education Global conference is trying something new in 2021 by focusing the entire conference on the UNESCO…
OAI12 - (14 April 2021)
The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication The main themes of this edition are: Scholarly publishing Digital research data…
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) - (12 April 2021)
The French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) has made the first document in France officially presenting the…
EOSC Symposium 2021 - (7 April 2021)
Implementing an inclusive European Open Science Cloud The European Open Science Cloud has finally entered its highly-anticipated implementation phase, after…
FAIRsFAIR Week 2021 - (9 March 2021)
FAIRsFAIR is one of the Horizon 2020 projects for the implementation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). Its goal…
EU Open Data Days – Shaping our future with open data - (9 March 2021)
Would you like to contribute to the shift to a data-driven economy? This is your chance! The Publications Office of…
OAI12: The Future of Open Science - (3 March 2021)
OAI12 – The Geneva Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication will be held virtually from 6-10 September 2021. Participation is…
ENDORSE: The European Data Conference on Reference Data and Semantics - (24 February 2021)
ENDORSE will be an online event. High dynamism and innovation underpin digital transformation of our public administrations. In this context,…
Publication of a study on opening source codes in French Higher Education and Research - (22 February 2021)
Since its creation the Free and Open Source Software Project Group has studied the many issues linked to software and…
Comments made by France on the First draft of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science - (19 February 2021)
In a statement, France commented on the first draft recommendation on open science published by UNESCO in October 2020. We…
FORCE2021 - (28 January 2021)
At a FORCE11 annual conference stakeholders come together for an open discussion, on an even playing field, to talk about…
Call for projects N°2 « Publications » – National Fund for Open Science - (27 January 2021)
Published on January 27, 2021 One of the measures taken for the first topic of "Generalising open access to publications"…
iPRES2021 - (26 January 2021)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
2020 Barometer of Open Science: 56% of French publications are in open access - (24 January 2021)
The third Flash Note from the French Barometer of Open Science (BSO) has just been published by the Ministry of…
Supporting the evolution of French publication policies and their visibility - (23 January 2021)
Article 30 of the Law for a Digital Republic and the forthcoming implementation of Plan S have increased the need…
Model contracts for public publishing in an open science context - (22 January 2021)
The working group had made two model contracts for periodicals available in July and is now adding a model contract…
LIBER 2021 | ONLINE - (11 January 2021)
Libraries and Open Knowledge: from vision to implementation Call for papers The deadline for submitting a proposal is 31 January…
16th International Digital Curation Conference - (9 December 2020)
Data quality and data limitations: working towards equality through data curation The 16th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference…
Results of the first National Open Science Fund call for open scientific publishing projects - (4 December 2020)
The Steering Committee for Open Science selected 22 projects on the basis of an international jury's conclusions in the first…
A new open journal in French on artificial intelligence - (4 December 2020)
In spring 2019 the Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle was sold and its editorial committee resigned. Subsequently members of the committee worked…
PhD students, welcome to open science! - (17 November 2020)
Are you starting your thesis or working as an apprentice researcher? Perhaps you have heard about open science but have…
1st Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 | EN LIGNE - (16 November 2020)
Let’s shape together the new strategy for Cloud Computing in Europe! The Horizon Cloud Summit 2020 aims at gathering researchers…
Knowledge Exchange: futures in Open Science - (7 October 2020)
Knowledge Exchange (KE) is an original entity both prospective and pragmatic in its approach to Open Science, aka Open Scholarship…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2021 - (25 September 2020)
ICTeSSH2021 is a three-day virtual conference Participation in the conference is free of charge, but registration is mandatory and number…
Realising the European Open Science Cloud: Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond - (24 September 2020)
EOSChub, FREYA and SSHOC are joining forces in shaping the EOSC. We invite social science and humanities researchers, data experts,…
Open Science Conference 2021 - (17 September 2020)
The Open Science Conference 2021 will be held entirely online and has been extended to three days due to the…
International Data Week 2022 | In-person and virtually - (14 September 2020)
The founding organisations, the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), the Research Data Alliance (RDA), and the local hosts announce that…
RDA’S 17th Plenary meeting - (14 September 2020)
Despite the welcome news regarding vaccination programmes being rolled out in the UK and around the world, the uncertainty around…
EOSC Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (13 August 2020)
This year's largest event organised by the EOSC Executive & Governing Boards with the support of the EOSC Secretariat project…
UNESCO global consultation: France’s proposal regarding open science - (3 August 2020)
UNESCO has launched a global consultation aimed at formulating a single Recommendation on Open Science and establish standards which will…
ESOF2022 – EuroScience Open Forum - (22 July 2020)
The EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is a biennial, pan-European, general science conference dedicated to scientific research and innovation. Each conference aims to…
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic MTSR2020 goes Online. Taking into account all the available information and ongoing uncertainties and our…
15th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing ONLINE - (20 July 2020)
The Munin Conference is an annual conference on scholarly publishing and communication, primarily revolving around open access, open data and…
International Conference on Data Mining and Software Engineering (DMSE 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and…
Joint Statement by the French National Research Funding Agencies in support of Open Science - (6 July 2020)
Five French Research Funding Agencies affirm their commitment to open science in a declaration signed on 29 June 2020. The…
International Data Week 2023: A Festival of Data - (2 July 2020)
The International Science Council’s Committee on Data (CODATA) and World Data System (WDS), and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) are…
Assistance for answers to the UNESCO survey on Open Science - (27 May 2020)
UNESCO is developing a recommendation on Open Science. The roadmap is available online. The European and International College of the…
COVID-19: a European platform for coronavirus data - (22 May 2020)
The European Commission launched a European data platform on COVID-19 in collaboration with several partners on April 20th to enable…
International FAIR Convergence Symposium 2020 ONLINE - (6 May 2020)
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November -…
Call for Projects – National Fund for Open Science - (20 April 2020)
Message of April 20, 2020 In view of the current health situation concerning COVID-19, the closing date of the FNSO…
The Covid-19 epidemic has shown how necessary it is to progress in opening up scientific publications and research data. This…
French National Fund for Open Science support to three international infrastructures - (10 March 2020)
The French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has decided to support three international open science infrastructures as part of…
International Conference on ICT enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 2020 Moves Online - (6 March 2020)
COVID-19 The organizers of ICTeSSH 2020 have no choice but to hold the conference as a virtual meeting due to…
CRIS2020: New Technologies and Open Science in CRIS Systems POSTPONE until the autumn - (6 March 2020)
We're sorry to announce that the CRIS2020 conference planned for June 17-20, 2020 at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT)…
2nd Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum – The Global Transition to Open Access: Challenges and Solutions - (5 March 2020)
Coronavirus Announcement - VIRTUAL CONFERENCE We have constantly analyzed the whole situation during lockdown whilst still preparing the conference in…
RDA 16th Plenary Meeting: “Knowledge Ecology” ONLINE - (3 March 2020)
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, RDA has been contemplating the feasibility of holding its face-to-face plenary in Costa…
The CNRS Roadmap for Open Science - (26 February 2020)
Following on from the National Plan for Open Science launched in July 2018, the CNRS presented its Roadmap for Open…
Open Innovation in Science (OIS) Research Conference 2020 POSTPONE - (25 February 2020)
Call for Abstracts The organizing committee of the OIS Research Conference 2020 at CERN IdeaSquare invites you to join the…
OPFCON Moves Online - (24 February 2020)
OPFCON Moves Online In light of the ongoing global pandemic, we have made the decision to move OPFCON online. In…
ENRIO 2021 Congress on Research Integrity Practice - (24 February 2020)
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC, THE CONGRESS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO 27-29 SEPTEMBER, 2021. We are…
7th World Conference on Research Integrity - (24 February 2020)
As the face to face World Congress on Research Integrity (WCRI) 2021 in South Africa has been postponed to 2022, WCRI will…
DCMI 2020 International Conference on Metadata: DCMI Virtual - (19 February 2020)
With regret, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequent uncertainty and disruption which will continue for the medium term,…
Research data college: projects for 2020 - (18 February 2020)
The Research Data College is entering a new phase of its work. It will structure its action for the year…
EAHIL 2020: Be Open. Act Together ONLINE - (18 February 2020)
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and with the safety of our community as a top priority the Local…
ddh20 : Data and Digital Humanities 2020 ONLINE - (17 February 2020)
NEWS: Because of the CoViD, the DTU (Digital Tools & Uses) Congress has become virtual and so has the DDH…
Data for History 2020: Modelling Time, Places, Agents POSTPONE - (17 February 2020)
23 March 2020: Update on the conference Data4History 2020 In view of the current circumstances, we have to postpone the…
Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata 2020 - (13 February 2020)
A 1-day workshop for researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and opening citations advocates, interested in the creation, reuse, and…
The “Sorbonne Declaration” on research data rights - (29 January 2020)
The Research Data Summit was held at the Sorbonne University on Monday, January 27th and brought together nine networks representing…
New version of scanR - (28 January 2020)
scanR was launched in 2016 and there will be a new version in January 2020. This search engine can be…
49% of French publications in open access - (28 January 2020)
The second Flash Note published by the Baromètre français de la science ouverte (French Open Science Monitor) has announced that…
French researchers support the movement towards open science - (24 January 2020)
The Couperin consortium has published the results of its survey of French researchers' publication and open access practices. It focused…
LIBER 2020 ONLINE - (20 January 2020)
Building Trust With Research Libraries In times of fake news and discussions about science, findings and facts, society needs research…
Publication costs of articles in French higher education and research establishments - (16 January 2020)
With the support of the Conference of University Presidents (CPU), the Couperin consortium has conducted a national survey on article…
OASPA2020 – Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing Moves online - (15 January 2020)
OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2020 Registration is open for the OASPA 2020 Conference which will take…
24th ElPub Conference: Charting the Future(s) of Digital Publishing - (15 January 2020)
Conference update, 23 March 2020 With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with the wellbeing of our delegates being…
PV2020: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation and Adding Value to Scientific and Technical Data POSTPONE - (15 January 2020)
Due to measures taken to reduce the impact / spread of Covid-19, PV2020 will be postponed. Tentative new dates are…
iPRES 2020 POSTPONED - (10 December 2019)
Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, the iPRES2020 had to be postponed to iPRES2021. With the support of the whole community,…
Evaluating the overall research results - (4 December 2019)
"There is an urgent need to improve the methods of evaluation of scientific research results by funding agencies, educational and…
French ORCID community consortium launched - (8 November 2019)
The Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation's Open Science Committee has commissioned the Couperin consortium to lead a consortium…
41% of French publications in open access - (8 November 2019)
The French Open Science Monitor was a commitment announced by the National Open Science Plan and its first issue has…
European Dataverse Workshop 2020 - (4 November 2019)
Target Group: Representatives from (European) research institutions that are using, or planning to use, Dataverse to run their research data repositories,…
Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication - (11 October 2019)
Our aim is to encourage research into the quality and credibility of peer review and scientific publication, to establish the…
Open Science Days 2020 - (10 October 2019)
The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) cordially invites you to participate in the Open Science Days 2020. The event will…
The International Research Data Community contributing to EOSC - (16 September 2019)
Purpose & Scope One year on the launch of EOSC, this timely event wishes to provide a voice to the…
EOSC symposium - (16 September 2019)
An integral part of the EOSC Stakeholder Forum 26-28 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary Organised by EOSCsecretariat.eu in collaboration with the…
Open Science Conference 2020 - (4 September 2019)
The Open Science Conference 2020 is the 7th international conference of the Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science. The annual conference…
Creation of the National Open Science Fund - (2 September 2019)
The Open Science Steering Committee, the decision-making body of the Open Science Committee, will launch a call for projects in…
Quality research data are key elements of the research process. They should be available at all times, publicly and free…
Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers’ Day 2019 - (5 August 2019)
The programme The Digital Excellence Forum will start with a plenary debate on “Partnering for Digital Excellence”. Partnerships are a…
Open Repositories 2021 | ONLINE - (1 August 2019)
The Open Repositories Steering Committee and the Stellenbosch University hosts have decided to postpone the in-person conference planned for summer…
PASIG - (1 August 2019)
The PASIG Steering Committee, along with the local organizers at Biblioteca digital memoriademadrid, have discussed all current options for the…
RDA 15th Plenary Meeting CANCELLED - (1 August 2019)
"It is with a very heavy heart and great sadness that I inform you, on behalf of the organisers, that…