Alex Kohls

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I am a passionate #scubadiver, musician playing the keyboard in a band (https://waitlist.rocks), and an #openscience and #openaccess enthusiast looking for a polite and friendly exchange with the world. 
In real life I am happily married with two lovely cats. I am living close to #Nyon in #Switzerland, working at @CERN managing its Scientific Information Service (https://scientific-info.cern) incl. the @CERNlibrary and @SCOAP3 (https://scoap3.org).
CERN Open Sciencehttps://openscience.cern/
scubaXplorer (me as a diver)https://scubaxplorer.com/
Waitlist@Mastodonhttps://mastodonmusic.social/@waitlistband
Alex KohlsApr 6, 2023
Accelerating the adoption of #openscience! CERN and NASA will host a one-week conference to bring together policy experts and practitioners in July in Geneva.
Alex KohlsDec 25, 2022
petersuberDec 24, 2022
More evidence that articles published in #OpenAccess journals are cited more often than articles published in #paywalled journals. But at the same time, evidence that the availability of otherwise-paywalled articles on #SciHub is reducing the OA citation advantage (#OACA) for OA journals.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2357492/v1
On the culture of open access: the Sci-hub paradox

Shadow libraries have gradually become key players of scientific knowledge dissemination, despite their illegality in most countries of the world. Many publishers and scientist-editors decry such libraries for their copyright infringement and loss of publication usage information, while some scho...

Alex KohlsDec 17, 2022
A. Hofmann Sep 11, 2022
Show threadAlex KohlsDec 7, 2022
Thanks a lot @CMSexperiment for leading the CERN #openscience efforts with this impressive milestone. And yet, there is even more to come towards open and reproducible science. Check out https://openscience.cern!
Open Science at CERN: Home | OpenScience at CERN

Alex KohlsDec 7, 2022
CMS ExperimentDec 5, 2022

#OpenData for everyone! 🗃️
CMS Experiment is unique, sharing all its proton proton data from #LHC Run1 with the public! Don't forget that these #data led CMS #scientists to the #discovery of the #Higgs boson 10 years ago! 🎉 Read more: https://cms.cern/news/cms-completes-release-its-entire-run-1-proton-proton-data

#CERN #CMSExperiment #collaboration #science #ScienceMastodon #experiment #physics #particlephysics

CMS completes the release of its entire Run-1 proton-proton data | CMS Experiment

Alex KohlsDec 7, 2022
asha hedayatiDec 7, 2022
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Alex KohlsDec 1, 2022
I’m proud that the @SCOAP3 initiative continues to make life of researchers easier! After the journals we now target books! #openaccess #collaboration #openbook @cern https://scoap3.org/scoap3-launches-open-books-program/
SCOAP3 launches open books program – SCOAP3

Show threadAlex KohlsNov 27, 2022
@janalbrecht traurig, dass es heute immer noch um Absichtserklärungen geht. Natürlich gibt es Erfolge, aber ein wirkliches Umdenken der Gesellschaft ist auch fast 30 Jahre später nicht erkennbar.
Alex KohlsNov 27, 2022
samimNov 26, 2022

Linear time is a convenient illusion.

(Art from the book "Mr. Invincible: Local Hero" - by Pascal Jousselin)

Show threadAlex KohlsNov 26, 2022
@Addicted2Diving 😍😍