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We can’t advance open science if we don’t measure it. Read new post on @upstream from Iratxe Puebla and Eleonora Colangelo on the Open Science Monitoring Initiative's survey to identify current monitoring practices among journals, repositories and other providers. https://doi.org/10.54900/5gjkq-ngh33

Monitoring open science with scholarly content providers: what OSMI’s survey tells us

For open science to advance, it is essential to monitor its practices to meaningfully assess whether they are achieving their intended goals for research and society. The Open Science Monitoring Initiative (OSMI) was established to help the community assess the adoption and impact of open science across the research ecosystem

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FORCE11 Sep 30

New on @upstream: From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs - When Will Academia Act?

International postdocs are essential to research, yet too often face insecurity & systemic inequities. It’s time for collective action: https://doi.org/10.54900/w8z54-zq587 #academia #postdocs #force11

From Promise to Precarity: The Plight of International Postdocs — When Will Academia Act?

Postdocs often relocate globally, facing cultural barriers, visa issues, and discrimination alone. Without strong support networks, they're treated as disposable despite being vital to research. We must recognize postdocs as essential architects of academia, not temporary labor.

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FORCE11 Jun 25, 2025

“Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this" New @upstream post from @dannykay68 - Recent shifts across the scholarly information ecosystem & what means for libraries, infrastructure providers, and open science advocates: https://doi.org/10.54900/6hpza-sg998

Implications, there are a few. Trying to make sense of all of this

How do we make sense of the implications of current geopolitical, financial and technological volatility? What impact will all of this have on the relationship between libraries and publishers, and libraries and their users? This blog post is an attempt to address these questions.

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FORCE11 May 13, 2025

Upstream May 13, 2025

How does open science hold up in times of crisis? @jeroenbosman & @Jeroenson explore this in a sharp post on Upstream: https://doi.org/10.54900/pqrcx-8d019
They outline threats, map types of resilience, and remind us: open science isn’t just at risk…it’s also part of the solution.

The resilience of open science in times of crisis

The increasingly hostile attitude of the new U.S. government towards science and academia leaves many of us deeply concerned— if not outright alarmed. In an effort to better understand the unfolding situation and navigate its potential impacts, we provide an overview of five types of threats, each supported by

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FORCE11 Mar 4, 2025

New @upstream Blog: Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) releases Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to support community-driven infrastructure for making PID metadata better. Informational Webinar tomorrow, March 5, 2025 - https://upstream.force11.org/the-collaborative-metadata-enrichment-taskforce-comet-releases-their-community-call-to-action/

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) releases their Community Call to Action

The Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has released a Community Call to Action, inviting organizations and individuals to contribute resources (funding, expertise, metadata, and infrastructure) to support the first phase of a community-driven infrastructure for making persistent identifier (PID) metadata better and more complete. Informational Webinar: March 5, 2025 at

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FORCE11 Mar 2, 2025

Open Science Fair Feb 13, 2025

We’re excited to announce the theme for #OSFair2025: “Fusing Forces – Accelerating Open Science through Collaboration”.

This year, from September 15 to 17 at CERN in Geneva, we will spotlight the power of global, international and cross-regional partnerships in shaping the future of #OpenScience.

Stay tuned for announcements!

FORCE11 Mar 2, 2025

infoDOCKET Mar 2, 2025

Upcoming Webinar (March 5, 2025) COMET (Collaborative #Metadata Enrichment) Community Call to Action https://www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to-action-comet ##PID
#scholcomm #libraries

Call to Action from the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) — COMET

Through extensive stakeholder consultation, COMET has identified the critical need for improving PID metadata through community-driven enrichment… COMET now looks to transition this work into a development phase and seeks strategic partners who can provide financial support, technical expertise, and

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FORCE11 Mar 1, 2025

Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has launched a Community Call to Action to transform how we enrich & maintain PID metadata. Now, this FORCE11 WG needs your help to make it happen! Read the Call to Action & join the webinar on March 5 at 3pm UTC! https://www.cometadata.org/blog/call-to-action-comet

Call to Action from the Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) — COMET

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FORCE11 Feb 18, 2025

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example.
Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. This new post on @upstream is a call for the open science community to lead by example in defending science: https://doi.org/10.54900/eher5-hdf87

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example

Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. The new US administration has thrown the entire academy into chaos, threatening global health. This article is a call for the open science community to practice what it preaches and lead by example in defending science.

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FORCE11 Feb 4, 2025

Upstream Feb 4, 2025

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data New post on the @upstream blog: https://doi.org/10.54900/8m9by-kfy03

The time is now! Vertical interoperability between research tools: an essential enabler for the FAIRification of data

In recent years, interoperability has become an important concept in the field of research data management. Discussions about interoperability have taken place in published articles and numerous presentations [1] [2], and several interoperability standards have been developed [3], [4], [5]. The term has been applied, among other things, to data,

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