Research Group Information Management @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Heinz Pampel

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 Archive (Schräer 2023). The Wayback Machine plays a crucial role in preserving websites and providing access to our digital past—for researchers, journalists, and the interested public alike.

Interview on Deutschlandfunk about the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive

Laura Rothfritz

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 (Farley et al. 2021). These agreements promise to bridge traditional subscription-based journal models to an Open Access (OA) future (Borrego, Anglada, and Abadal 2021). But are they delivering on that promise?

New preprint on Transformative Agreements

Together with Christian Agi, Michael Beurskens, Marion von Francken, Judith Ludwig, and Bernhard Mittermaier, I have been working on recommendations for the inclusion of artificial intelligence in license agreements with publishers over the past few months.

Recommendations on Regulations for Artificial Intelligence in License Agreements Published

Marcel Wrzesinski

Ben Kaden

Margo Bargheer

Maxi Kindling

Dagmar Schobert

The conversation about advancing the open access transformation has been revitalized by the “Council Conclusions on High-Quality, Transparent, Open, Trustworthy, and Equitable Scholarly Publishing” issued by the EU Science Ministries in May 2023 (Council of the European Union 2023).  In September 2023, we organized the conference “Community-Driven Open Access Publishing” as a satellite event of the Open Access Days 2023 (Bibliotheks- und

Perspectives on the future of community-driven Open Access publishing

Pia Kretschmar

Christopher Onzie Khamis

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 new developments.

Die Bibliocon 2024 - ein studentischer Reisebericht

Jens Klump

Dorothea Strecker

Research is inherently dynamic, leading to equally dynamic data. This dynamic nature of research data raises numerous questions for professionals in information management at research institutions, libraries, and computing centers. Despite the conceptual establishment of research data citation through persistent identifiers (PIDs) in some communities, practical challenges remain.

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

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 Information Science on shadow libraries (Belanger 2024). The occasion for the interview was the lawsuit for damages against LibGen in the United States.

Interview on Shadow Libraries on Deutschlandfunk

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 scientific knowledge. While the early years focused on access to scientific articles (“Open Access Week” 2024), this year’s activities increasingly address other aspects of Open Science.

Our Contribution to Open Access Week 2024

Catharina Ochsner

Evin Dalkilic

Front Matter

Martin Fenner

Mareike König

Ulrike Stockhausen

Scholarly blogs can disseminate current research content quickly and beyond their own specialist community and put it up for discussion. Open communication without paywalls increases the visibility of scholarly research. Researchers as well as information infrastructure and cultural institutions therefore have an interest in supporting scholarly blogs as an Open Access publication format.

Blogs as a blueprint for community-led Open Access publishing

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

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

Göttingen State and University Library

Daniel Beucke

Hamburg State and University Library

Isabella Meinecke

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 (Singh Chawla 2024). This initiative provides a good opportunity to discuss the future of Open Access Repositories at the https://2024.bibliocon.de/.  In collaboration with the project “Professionalization of the Open Access Repositories Infrastructure in Germany” (Pro OAR DE)

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

Welcome! This is the first post in our new group blog.
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We, the research group Information Management at Humboldt University’s Berlin School of Library and Information Science, explore the role of digital research and information infrastructures in science within the context of digital transformation.

Welcome

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 Summit “Accelerating the Adoption of Open Science”. As a result of the summit, a closing statement was published, outlining key areas of action for Open Science (Tananbaum et al. 2023).  Under the umbrella of the Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) and with financial support

Recommendations for Funding Organizations on Open Science Infrastructures

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 facilities on 06.12.2024. The aim is to share initial experiences of the various stakeholders and promote their exchange. We will also present the initial results of our survey of German science blogs. When? Wednesday, 06.12.2024, 10:30-15:00  Where?

Invitation to the networking workshop of the Infra Wiss Blogs project

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

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

We are excited to announce the launch of our new project, “Infra Wiss Blogs - Kooperative Informationsinfrastruktur für wissenschaftliche Blogs” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG 2023).  Blogs have become an indispensable component of digital science communication, serving as a platform for scholarly communication, a diary for documenting research findings in the context of open science, or a showcase for communicating