Category: open data

Peer reviewed open access textbooks in high demand

17 April, 2023

In an article in Universitetsläraren, representatives from Stockholm University Library, Stockholm University Press, and Stockholm University Student Union, call on universities and colleges to make academic resources and textbooks more accessible. They wish to open a discussion regarding university textbooks being published with immediate open access. “The aim of open science is to make scientific … More Peer reviewed open access textbooks in high demand

New Book from Stockholm University Press: Invoking Flora Nwapa

17 November, 2020

Download the book at Stockholm University Press About the book This new book is written by Paula Uimonen and explores the revival of Flora Nwapa’s fame as the pioneer of African women’s literature, based on fieldwork at the Efuru@50 celebration in Nigeria. It is written in an experimental style, and shows how literary worldmaking creates … More New Book from Stockholm University Press: Invoking Flora Nwapa

Data Management Plans and its part of Open Science and OA publishing – Developments in Sweden #OA #opendata #DMP

29 May, 2019

Worldwide the Open Science and Open Access publishing paradigm has only in recent years significantly affected researchers work. Several initiatives and policies in Europe aim to help the shift to Open Science. Support services have been developed to guide researchers into the management of scholarly publications and research data since also funders nowadays demand a … More Data Management Plans and its part of Open Science and OA publishing – Developments in Sweden #OA #opendata #DMP

A view of Porto over the Douro from Vila Nova de Gaia and Taylor’s rabelo. Photo: Jeff Love (cc-by)

More Questions than Answers: Reflections from the Conference on European Open Science Cloud

8 February, 2018

Text by: Dr. Jeff Love, Stockholm University Library A couple of weeks ago the conference ‘Putting the EOSC Vision into Practice’ in Porto, Portugal. It was arranged by EUDAT, an international organization funded by the Horizon 2020 scheme dedicated to developing infrastructure for data management. As the conference title implies, the sessions here were intended to … More More Questions than Answers: Reflections from the Conference on European Open Science Cloud

About COASP10, University Press Week 17, OpenCon Berlin and much more

23 November, 2017

These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association Save the date: COASP10 in Vienna, September 17-19th 2018 The Scholarly Kitchen University Press Week 2017 Ask The Chefs: How Can We Increase Diversity In Scholarly Communications? LIBER – Association of European Research … More About COASP10, University Press Week 17, OpenCon Berlin and much more

Photo: Niklas Björling, Stockholm University.

About open data champions, user needs, university press week and much more

17 November, 2017

These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. SPARC Europe Open Data Champions launches New international coalition takes crowd-funding style approach to secure the future of open science LIBER Europe LIBER Strategy: Looking Back & Moving Forward Proposed TDM Exception Remains Too Narrow The National Library of … More About open data champions, user needs, university press week and much more

Photo: Niklas Björling for Stockholm University

About the EU Copyright Reform, COASP 2017 and much more

4 October, 2017

These articles caught our attention this week. Have we missed anything? Please share your comments below. LIBER Europe Copyright Reform: Help Us Ensure an Effective TDM Exception! LIBER Signs Open Letter Calling for a Revised Text and Data Mining (TDM) Exception SPARC Open Affordable College Textbook Act Reintroduced in Congress SPARC Europe Update: Coalition copyright … More About the EU Copyright Reform, COASP 2017 and much more

Open Science: Providing Skills and Inspiring Change

26 June, 2017

Blog post by Gustav Nilsonne, Stockholm University. Lack of knowledge is an oft-cited impediment to open science. In this context, knowledge may be important both as a motivator for change, and as a means to achieve change. To break down this impediment, we have started a postgraduate course in Open Science, Reproducible Research, and Research … More Open Science: Providing Skills and Inspiring Change

Nordic collaboration from a research data management perspective – NeIC 2017

Nordic collaboration from a research data management perspective – NeIC 2017

21 June, 2017

Blogpost by Joakim Philipson and Tuija Drake, Stockholm University Library. NeIC stands for Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration. NeIC conference 2017 took place in Umeå between May 28 and June 1. It was organised by Nordforsk in collaboration with CSC, DeIC, NeIC, NORDUnet, RHnet, SNIC, and UNINETT Sigma2. This is an international meeting place for over 200 … More Nordic collaboration from a research data management perspective – NeIC 2017

About The Research Data Alliance World Data System Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Working Group

About The Research Data Alliance World Data System Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Working Group

12 June, 2017

Blogpost by Monica Lassi. This post is part of our series of posts reporting from the RDA 9th Plenary (P9), 3-7 April 2017 in Barcelona. About data citation and linked data *Note 1: This is a long post for those interested in data citation and linked data* About Scholix, Scholarly Link Exchange *Note 2: The … More About The Research Data Alliance World Data System Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) Working Group