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BUA fellowship: Metadata flows in the context of research data

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In my PhD research, I investigate how metadata for research data are generated and maintained. I have started by analyzing how metadata records of the DOI registration…

Dorothea Strecker

Connecting Knowledge with Wikidata: A Practical Project with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin

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How can scholarly publications be made more visible, discoverable, and interconnected? This question is the focus of a student practical project conducted as part of the…

Laura Rothfritz, Stefanie Paß, Sabine von Mering, Clara Schindler, Heinz Pampel

Networking for the Advancement of Institutional Open Access Repositories in Germany

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We are excited to share our first guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der…

Lisa Matthias, Heinz Pampel, Christopher Onzie Khamis

Recap: Infra Wiss Blogs Webinar on Rogue Scholar

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On June 11, 2025, the webinar of the project Infra Wiss Blogs funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) took place on the topic of “Blog archiving with Rogue Scholar…

Jonas Höfting, Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel

Open Access Dashboard Collection Launched

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As Open Access becomes increasingly central to scholarship and science policy, understanding the proportion of open publications within the overall publication output…

Heinz Pampel, Johannes Schneider

Rückblick: OA Datenpraxis Webinar zu offenen Metadaten für Hochschulrankings am Beispiel des Leiden Ranking

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Am 04.04.2025 veranstaltete das von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) geförderte Projekt OA Datenpraxis ein Webinar zum Thema “Offene Metadaten für…

Webinar: Blog archiving with Rogue Scholar using the example of WordPress Blogs

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As part of the Infra Wiss Blogs project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), we invite you to a webinar on the topic of archiving scholarly blogs. This webinar…

Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel

Interviews on Shadow Libraries and AI in Publishing

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In April, two members of our research group were featured in interviews:

Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel

Networking for the Advancement of Institutional Open Access Repositories in Germany

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Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), our research project Pro OAR DE investigates current challenges in operating institutional repositories (IR)…

Heinz Pampel, Lisa Mattihas, Christopher Onzie Khamis

Is the German Scientific Landscape a Strong Driver for Open Science?

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As part of the project module Open Science as a Field of Action for Scientific Institutions, students from the Institute for Library and Information Science at Humboldt…

Laura Catalina Bohórquez Díaz, Sharleen Frankenstein, Henriette Humprecht, Christopher Onzie Khamis, Zuhal Nur Kocabiyik, Jannik Kuhs-Ohmann, Max Liebel, Sofie-Lilly Prinada, Patricia Rocha Dias, Hendrik Zimnol

Rückblick: OA Datenpraxis Webinar zur Erfassung von Publikationskosten

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Am 28.03.2025 veranstaltete das Projekt OA Datenpraxis (Pampel et al. 2024) das erste Webinar zum Thema ”Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen…

Jonas Höfting, Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Karin Ilg

The Information Management Research Group at the BID Kongress 2025

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We are pleased to announce that the projects OA Datenpraxis and Infra Wiss Blogs of the Information Management Research Group from the Berlin School of Library and…

Catharina Ochsner, Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel

OA Datenpraxis Webinar: Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland

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Wir laden Sie herzlich zur Veranstaltung “OA Datenpraxis Webinar: Erfassung von Publikationskosten an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen in Deutschland” ein, die am 28.03.2025…

Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel, Jonas Höfting

Critical Data Discourses: A Lecture Series on the Ethics of Research Data

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In a time when research data is increasingly at the heart of research integrity, discussions about data sharing, openness, and reusability have gained prominence. Yet, the…

Laura Rothfritz, Katrin Frisch

Promoting Open Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as BUA Open Science Ambassadors

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The Ambassadors for Open Science program of the Berlin University Alliance, BUA aims to promote the knowledge and application of Open Science in various subjects. As Open…

Catharina Ochsner, Dorothea Strecker

What happens when public data infrastructures aren’t save? A look at past and current developments in the US

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In my PhD research, I look at DataRescue or Data Refuge movements, for example through the work of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI) (“Environmental Data…

Laura Rothfritz

Perspective on Future Infrastructure for Scholarly Blogs in Germany

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On December 6th, 2024, we hosted the first workshop of our project Infra Wiss Blogs (Ochsner and Pampel 2024), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The aim of the…

Catharina Ochsner, Jonas Höfting, Heinz Pampel

Workshop ‘The state and prospects of open access reporting’ at Open-Access-Tage

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At last year’s Open-Access-Tage, OA Datenpraxis held a workshop together with the Open Access Monitor at Forschungszentrum Jülich as well as the state-wide Open Access…

Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel

Open Access Award from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for Our Team!

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We are thrilled to announce that our group at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science has been honored with the Open Access Award 2024 of Humboldt-Universität…

New preprint on Transformative Agreements

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In recent years, transformative agreements (TAs) have become a go-to strategy for publishers and research performing organizations aiming to open up access to research (Farle…

Laura Rothfritz

Interview on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive

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I recently had the opportunity to speak on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine from the Internet Archive. The occasion was the recent cyberattack on the Internet…

Our Contribution to Open Access Week 2024

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This week marks the fifteenth annual International Open Access Week. Since 2010, the week has provided a platform to discuss the state and challenges of open access to…

Blogs as a blueprint for community-led Open Access publishing

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Scholarly blogs can disseminate current research content quickly and beyond their own specialist community and put it up for discussion. Open communication without paywalls…

Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel, Evin Dalkilic, Martin Fenner, Mareike König, Ulrike Stockhausen

Interview on Shadow Libraries on Deutschlandfunk

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In the latest episode of “Breitband” on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, there is an interview with Dorothea Strecker from our research group at the Berlin School of Library and…

Recommendations on Regulations for Artificial Intelligence in License Agreements Published

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Together with Christian Agi, Michael Beurskens, Marion von Francken, Judith Ludwig, and Bernhard Mittermaier, I have been working on recommendations for the inclusion of…

Invitation to the networking workshop of the Infra Wiss Blogs project

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As part of the Infra Wiss Blogs (Pampel and Rothfritz 2024) project, we are organizing a first networking workshop for blogging researchers and employees from infrastructure…

Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel

Survey announcement: Recording publication costs at research performing institutions in Germany

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The Research and Teaching Group Information Management is conducting a survey on the topic of recording publication costs at research performing institutions in Germany. The…

Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel

Project launch: Infra Wiss Blogs - Ensuring Permanent Access to Scholarly Blogs

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We are excited to announce the launch of our new project, “Infra Wiss Blogs - Kooperative Informationsinfrastruktur für wissenschaftliche Blogs” funded by the Deutsche…

Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel

Perspectives on the future of community-driven Open Access publishing

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Policy

The conversation about advancing the open access transformation has been revitalized by the “Council Conclusions on High-Quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy, and…

Heinz Pampel, Marcel Wrzesinski, Ben Kaden, Margo Bargheer, Maxi Kindling, Dagmar Schobert

Research Data Publications Between Dynamism and Persistence - Insights from the #PIDsBUA Workshop

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Research is inherently dynamic, leading to equally dynamic data. This dynamic nature of research data raises numerous questions for professionals in information management…

Jens Klump, Heinz Pampel, Laura Rothfritz, Dorothea Strecker

Die Bibliocon 2024 - ein studentischer Reisebericht

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Students

Regardless of whether one is just starting out or has already arrived in the community, as young librarians and information scientists, there are many interesting fields and…

Pia Kretschmar, Christopher Onzie Khamis

Report on the Hands-On Lab ‘Scenarios for the Development of Open Access Repositories’ at the 112th BiblioCon

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In the beginning of June 2024, Nature reported on the Japanese Ministry of Education’s plan to invest 10 billion yen in expanding institutional Open Access Repositories (Sing…

Daniel Beucke, Isabella Meinecke, Heinz Pampel, Marcel Wrzesinski

Project launch: OA Datenpraxis- Data Practices for Shaping the Open Access Transformation

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We are excited to announce the launch of our new project, “Data Practices for Shaping Open Access Transformation - Analysis, Recommendation, Training & Networking - OA…

Dorothea Strecker, Heinz Pampel

Recommendations for Funding Organizations on Open Science Infrastructures

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I had the great opportunity to be part of the CERN-NASA working group “Infrastructure for Open Scholarship”. This working group was established following the 2023 CERN-NASA…

Welcome

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Welcome! This is the first post in our new group blog.¹ We, the research group Information Management at Humboldt University’s Berlin School of Library and Information…