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Interview on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive

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…

New preprint on Transformative Agreements

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

Our Contribution to Open Access Week 2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…