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🌻 International cooperation continues to support and sustain scientific communication in Ukraine 🇺🇦

🔹 Research4Life partnerships are strengthening #OpenAccess: over 1,000 Ukrainian researchers, lecturers, reviewers, and editors joined online courses delivered with @DOAJ

🔸 Several Ukrainian journals have also joined CLOCKSS, ensuring long-term preservation during wartime.

#Research4Life #Scientific_communication #OpenAccess #ScienceAtRisk

Open Science Network Ukraine Jun 3, 2025

🌻 Open Infrastructures in conflict zones: a case study of DOAJ and Ukrainian journals 🇺🇦

A collaborative case study on how #DOAJ and partners (#SUES, #Research4Life) have worked to support #Ukrainian academic journals during the war.

🔗 https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.689

#AcademicPublishing #OpenInfrastracture #ScholarlyCommunication #Nationaljournals #OpenScience

GÉANT Feb 27, 2025

#Research4Life, UbuntuNet Alliance and GÉANT—with support from the EU and #AfricaConnect3 —are making secure, seamless access to academic resources a reality for institutions across Eastern and Southern #Africa.

Through the Federated SSO pilot, students and researchers in #Kenya, #Malawi, #Zambia, #Uganda can now securely access academic content with their institutional credentials, removing the need for shared passwords and enabling flexible, remote access.

https://connect.geant.org/2025/02/21/simplifying-access-to-research4life-resources

Simplifying access to Research4Life resources | GÉANT CONNECT Online

Article originally published by Research4Life. Research4Life, in partnership with UbuntuNet Alliance and GÉANT – with support from the European Union and the AfricaConnect project – has successfully launched a Federated Single Sign-On (SSO) pilot for academic institutions. This initiative ensures secure academic resource access by allowing users to log in with their institutional credentials, eliminating the need for shared passwords With

GÉANT CONNECT Online | The leading collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education

edp sciences Dec 20, 2024

Driving Sustainability
At the #LondonBookFair, we co-hosted a forum on sustainable development. We also reaffirmed our commitment to #Research4Life, promoting access to high-quality research worldwide.
👉 https://buff.ly/4gh9py6
#R4LPartnership

EDP Sciences on LinkedIn: EDP Sciences 2024 End-of-Year Highlights As 2024 draws to a close, we…

EDP Sciences 2024 End-of-Year Highlights As 2024 draws to a close, we reflect on a year of progress and achievements at EDP Sciences. We’re excited to share…

DOAJ Dec 3, 2024

Promoting #openaccess: Advancing #DOAJ inclusion and scholarly publishing best practices.

https://blog.doaj.org/2024/12/03/promoting-open-access-advancing-doaj-inclusion-and-scholarly-publishing-best-practices/

Please check our series of workshops on open access, presented in collaboration with DOAJ, #Research4Life and #ASSAf (Academy of Science of South Africa).

#scholcomm #AcademicChatter

Promoting open access: Advancing DOAJ inclusion and scholarly publishing best practices – DOAJ Blog

edp sciences Nov 29, 2024

#Press | EDP Sciences is proud to renew its commitment to @R4LPartnership providing free or low-cost access to our journals for institutions in lower- and middle-income countries. Together, we support the global advancement of research and the #SDGs. 🌍📚

#Research4Life #OpenAccess #GlobalResearch #SustainableDevelopment #EquitableAccess #EDPSciences
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@ScienceScholar
@academia @phdlife @phdstudents
@academicsunite @academicchatter

Ludo Waltman Jun 5, 2023

Registration for the @sti2023 conference is open https://www.sti2023.org/registration/.

The conference is hybrid and we charge different fees for on-site and online participants.

I'm especially happy that we're able to offer a much reduced fee for online participants from lower income countries, defined as group A and B countries according to the #Research4Life classification https://www.research4life.org/access/eligibility/.

We hope this will contribute to a conference that is more globally inclusive.

@cwts

Registration – STI 2023

Serhii Nazarovets Feb 14, 2023

This results in this #preprint show that more than 50% of researchers have used a scholarly #piracy site 🏴‍☠️ at least once:

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05965

Many academic publishers during the war supported Ukrainian researchers through #Research4Life = We have never had so much legal access to full texts! Thank you! 💙 💛

#openaccess #scihub #paywalls #scicomm

Jumping over the paywall: Strategies and motivations for scholarly piracy and other alternatives

Despite the advance of the Open Access (OA) movement, most scholarly production can only be accessed through a paywall. We conduct an international survey among researchers (N=3,304) to measure the willingness and motivations to use (or not use) scholarly piracy sites, and other alternatives to overcome a paywall such as paying with their own money, institutional loans, just reading the abstract, asking the corresponding author for a copy of the document, asking a colleague to get the document for them, or searching for an OA version of the paper. We also explore differences in terms of age, professional position, country income level, discipline, and commitment to OA. The results show that researchers most frequently look for OA versions of the documents. However, more than 50% of the participants have used a scholarly piracy site at least once. This is less common in high-income countries, and among older and better-established scholars. Regarding disciplines, such services were less used in Life & Health Sciences and Social Sciences. Those who have never used a pirate library highlighted ethical and legal objections or pointed out that they were not aware of the existence of such libraries.

arXiv.org