cibertecario02 Eloy Rodrigues

@elrod
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Librarian and #OpenAccess and #OpenScience passionate.
Walking and trecking, especially on mountains, is one of my favourite things.

At the @coar_repositories annual meeting in Braga, Portugal. This event always punches above its weight. There are 50 delegates here, but these are all the countries which are being presented on in the "International Round Table – latest developments at the national and regional level" session:

(map courtesy of @martinklein)

The results of the Cost-Benefit Analysis of RCAAP - Portugal's Open Access Scientific Repositories were presented at the Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact Conference. In an estimate that the authors assume to be conservative, RCAAP's benefits are more than 30 per cent higher than its costs, with an estimated annual ‘saving’ of almost €500,000 in recent years.

It's not going to stop, till we wise up...

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/unfair-publisher-fees-for-deposit-into-repositories-highlight-the-need-for-authors-to-exercise-their-rights/

Unfair publisher fees for deposit into repositories highlight the need for authors to exercise their rights

Scientific knowledge is a public good Science and scholarship are about sharing and advancing knowledge, and many open access policies have been diligently designed in order to ensure that all thei…

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Just read this.
It is yet another enumeration and analysis of some of the many (well known) problems and consequences of the current "broken" publishing system, but with a more "radical" conclusion: abandon journal publishing.
https://asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific-publishing-enough-is-enough
Scientific Publishing: Enough is Enough

Why we're no longer funding journal publications

Human Readable
And now, one of the "European fathers" of the repository movement, @elrod talking at #OR2025 about how COAR Notify can be used to help scale the Publish, Review, Curate model of publishing, putting repositories at the center of a new type of DiamondOA @martinklein @paulwalk
The Expanding COAR Notify Ecosystem: Project Update

May 5, 2025 The COAR Notify Project has passed the halfway point of the 4-year project funded by Arcadia. In the past 2.5 years, the COAR Notify team has made significant progress in terms of adopt…

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An "old" (more than 10 years) collaboration, between two relevant and mature regional networks, now reinforced to foster Open Science in Europe and Latin America
https://www.openaire.eu/strengthening-open-science-academic-collaboration-between-europe-latin-america
Strengthening Open Science & Academic Collaboration between Europe & Latin America

Scientific Knowledge Graph. Scholarly Communication Knowledge Graph. Open scholarly communication infrastructure. European Open Science Cloud. Open Access. Open Data. Open Science

OpenAIRE
FCT's (the public research funder from Portugal) long-awaited new Open Access Policy was released today.
A very important step that will certainly contribute to the consolidation of open access in Portugal.
https://www.fccn.pt/atualidade/nova-politica-acesso-aberto-promove-visibilidade-investigacao-cientifica/
Nova Política de Acesso Aberto da FCT promove a visibilidade dos resultados da investigação científica • FCCN

A Política entra em vigor a partir de 7 de fevereiro.

FCCN
A nova Política de Acesso Aberto da FCT, há muito aguardada, foi hoje divulgada.
Um passo muito importante que certamente contribuirá para a consolidação do acesso aberto em Portugal.
https://www.fccn.pt/atualidade/nova-politica-acesso-aberto-promove-visibilidade-investigacao-cientifica/
Nova Política de Acesso Aberto da FCT promove a visibilidade dos resultados da investigação científica • FCCN

A Política entra em vigor a partir de 7 de fevereiro.

FCCN
E ainda outra resposta, da Rede Brasileira de Reprodutibilidade, ao texto de opinião publicado pelo CNPQ
https://osf.io/h2unb
OSF