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Scholarly Blogs as an Integral Part of the Open Access Landscape
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The Infra Wiss Blogs project by the Research Group Information Management was represented at this year’s Open Access Days with the workshop “Scholarly blogs as an integral…
Catharina Ochsner, Heinz Pampel, Björn Gebert, Melanie Seltmann, Ulrike Wuttke
Oct 7, 2025

Report from the BUA fellowship: Metadata flows in the context of research data
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I recently returned from a research stay at the University of Ottawa: A grant by the Berlin University Alliance (BUA) - through the BUA Fellowship Program of the Objective 3…
Dorothea Strecker
Oct 3, 2025

Panel Discussion to Kick Off the International Open Access Week 2025
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We are pleased to announce that the event series “Quo vadis Open Research in Berlin and Brandenburg” will continue throughout 2025 and 2026. This marks the fifth round of…
Heinz Pampel
Oct 1, 2025

Berlin – City of Open Knowledge for Academia, Administration, Civil Society & Culture
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I am pleased to share that our research group is a partner of the “Berlin – City of Open Knowledge for Academia, Administration, Civil Society & Culture” conference.
Heinz Pampel
Aug 22, 2025

Interview on Deutschlandfunk Kultur About Belgian Ruling Against Shadow Libraries
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Last week, I was interviewed on the program Breitband on Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the ruling of a Belgian court against four shadow libraries, as well as the Open…
Heinz Pampel
Aug 13, 2025

“Vom Drittmittelprojekt zur etablierten Struktur”. Bericht über ein Hands-on Lab auf der 113. Bibliocon
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Wie wird aus einem geförderten Pilotprojekt eine dauerhaft tragfähige Infrastruktur? Diese zentrale Frage stellten sich viele der Teilnehmenden des Hands-on-Labs „Vom…
Heinz Pampel, Ursula Arning, Brigitte Grote, Gesche Wahlen, Gerald Jagusch, Martin Spenger, Jürgen Rohrwild, Robert Strötgen, Christopher O. Khamis
Aug 8, 2025

Long Night of Science 2025: Communicating Information Management with a Data Puzzle on Open Science
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The Long Night of Science (Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften - LNdW) is one of the most well-known public science events in Germany, providing research institutions with a…
Heinz Pampel, Friedrich Schmidgall, Laura Rothfritz, Max Liebel, Johanna Schielke
Jul 31, 2025

Guide Published: Interplay of Institutional Repositories and CRIS
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To support repository managers and institutional decision-makers, we are pleased to present our second guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology…
Lisa Matthias, Heinz Pampel, Christopher Onzie Khamis
Jul 24, 2025

Libraries as operating and preserving institutions for scholarly blogs: Report on a Hands-on Lab at the 113th Bibliocon
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Scholarly blogs have established themselves as important platforms for making research findings and discourse accessible both within scientific communities and to the…
Heinz Pampel, Till Stadtbäumer, Martin Fenner, Sven Ködel, Charmaine Voigt, Britta Woldering, Catharina Ochsner, Jonas Höfting, Christopher Onzie Khamis
Jul 23, 2025

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
Jul 18, 2025

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
Jul 16, 2025

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
Jun 23, 2025

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
Jun 19, 2025

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
Jun 12, 2025

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…
Sophia Dörner
Jun 11, 2025

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
May 16, 2025

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
Apr 22, 2025

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
Apr 22, 2025

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
Apr 17, 2025

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
Apr 14, 2025

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
Mar 14, 2025

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
Mar 7, 2025

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
Feb 21, 2025

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
Feb 5, 2025

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
Feb 5, 2025

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
Jan 10, 2025

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
Jan 9, 2025

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…
Heinz Pampel
Dec 4, 2024

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
Nov 18, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Nov 17, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Oct 21, 2024

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
Oct 17, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Oct 17, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Oct 17, 2024

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
Oct 9, 2024

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
Oct 1, 2024

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
Sep 5, 2024

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
Aug 5, 2024

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
Jul 26, 2024

Die Bibliocon 2024 - ein studentischer Reisebericht
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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
Jul 26, 2024

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
Jul 15, 2024

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
Jun 19, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Jun 11, 2024

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…
Heinz Pampel
Mar 25, 2024
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