📚 Zwischen Magazin und Rotunde: Ein Gespräch über Open Science

Luciana Mara Silva (UDESC, Brasilien) zu Gast an der TUB über Repositorien, Sprachbarrieren in der Wissenschaft und die Bedeutung internationalen Austauschs.

Zur #OAWeek2025 👇

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https://www.tub.tuhh.de/blog/2025/10/26/oaweek2025-sprache-sichtbarkeit-und-zugang-eine-brasilianische-perspektive-auf-openness/

🌍 During our Open Science Summer School 2025, Prof. Dr. Felix Schönbrodt (@nicebread) gave an eye-opening lecture titled “Open Access, Preprints, Postprints - or ‘How to do Open Access For Free’,” 🔓 exploring the many ways researchers can reclaim control over how their work is shared.

Listen to Prof. Schönbrodt’s full lecture here: https://osf.io/5rsxb, review the slides here: https://osf.io/c2mrb

Here are a few key insights:
📗 Open Access takes many forms, from Green Open Access (self-archiving preprints or postprints) to Gold models where publications are made openly available immediately by the publishers, against an article processing charge paid by the authors.
🔍 Green Open Access refers to freely depositing your article in an institutional or discipline-specific repository that is freely-accessible by readers. Wonderful tools like the Open Policy Finder https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/ help you check which version of your article, where, and when publishers allow you to deposit a freely accessible version of your article.
💎 Diamond Open Access is a publishing model that is free for both readers and authors, supported by community-driven and non-commercial initiatives.

Open Access redistributes ownership of scientific knowledge back to the academic community and the public who fund research. 📖

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🌍 Who really owns the knowledge we create? 🔓 For Open Access Week 2025, let’s reflect on what it means to take back ownership of research and how it’s shared.

Earlier this year, our Von “DEAL” zu “Diamond” symposium discussed how universities can move beyond commercial publishing models toward community-driven, non-profit systems. Two key approaches stood out:
💎 Diamond Open Access (OA): A community-driven model where publishing is free for both authors and readers. It’s supported by institutions rather than profit-based publishers.
🌐 Peer Community In (PCI): A non-commercial platform for open peer review and publication recommendation, allowing scholars to share and evaluate research transparently and collaboratively.

The conversations highlighted a key message: true openness in science isn’t only about access — it’s about autonomy, equity, and ensuring that knowledge serves the common good. 📚

Check out the materials (in German) from this symposium here: https://osf.io/r49ng/files

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🌍 Under the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” for Open Access Week 2025 🔓, we’re spotlighting two initiatives reshaping how knowledge is shared and evaluated: CoARA and OpenAlex.

🧭 CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment): A global movement that promotes fairer research evaluation by recognizing diverse contributions and focusing on qualitative assessment over irresponsible use of metrics. In line with these principles, the Research Quality Evaluation (RESQUE) framework (https://www.resque.info/) offers practical tools and indicators for assessing research quality responsibly. It emphasizes the use of indicators for rigorous and reproducible science and offers user-friendly tools that enhance hiring and tenure decision-making processes. One of the coordinators of the RESQUE framework is our managing director, Felix Schönbrodt (@nicebread)!

🔎 OpenAlex: An open, comprehensive index of the world’s research. It works by providing a database of research outputs which includes information like authors, affiliations, and citations, without paywalls. Based on OpenAlex, the LMU Open Science Center creates a bibliography of open science work from our members and maps the network of connections across our Open Science community: https://www.resources.osc.lmu.de/bibliography/.

By embracing initiatives like CoARA and OpenAlex, we move closer to a research culture where openness, equity, and integrity define how knowledge is created and shared. 💡

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🌍 It’s Open Science Week! 🔓
From October 20–26, 2025, we join the global community in celebrating open access to knowledge and research.

💡 This year’s theme is “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” It invites us to reflect on how research and education are shared, who creates knowledge, and whose voices are recognized in shaping it.

Throughout this week, we’ll be highlighting our open science initiatives, events, and the open tools and resources that help us make research more transparent, inclusive, and accessible to all.

Join us as we continue pushing for a more open future in science and scholarship. ✨

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