Das Urheberrecht der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik war sozialistisch-modern, übermäßig lange Schutzfristen etwa waren tabu. Diana Liebenau erforscht die Geschichte des DDR-Urheberrechts. Im Interview erläutert die Juristin das utopische Potential und die inneren Widersprüchen des Geistigen Eigentums im Sozialismus. iRights.info: Frau Liebenau, Sie forschen zum Urheberrecht in der DDR.

This June, we presented at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) and connected directly with our growing community in China. With a surge of interest from Chinese publishers and partners, it was clear: there’s a strong and rising curiosity around how metadata plays a vital role in maintaining the integrity of the scholarly record.

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 and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Forschungsinformationssysteme (CRIS): Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien” (German only.) Matthias, L., Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O.,

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched today with a number of exciting new features, including major new software version, new hardware, new look and feed, and new authentication.Major new software version Version v13.0 of the InvenioRDM open source repository platform was released today.

GENEVA, Switzerland, 23 July 2025 (The Geneva Learning Foundation) –Today, The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) announces the launch of “Learning to lead change on the frontline of climate change and health,” the inaugural course in a new certificate programme designed by and for professionals facing climate change impacts on health. Enrollment is now open. The course will launch on 11 August 2025.

Im vergangenen Quartal erschienen zwei weitere Open-Access-Monografien, deren Publikation mit Mitteln des Publikationsfonds des Landes Brandenburg unterstützt wurde. Die Förderung ermöglicht die freie Verfügbarkeit der Titel, die sich mit aktuellen Themen aus Philosophie und Stadtforschung auseinandersetzen.

Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup! You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! 🔗rOpenSci HQ 🔗Open Science with a Latin American Identity: Meet the New Cohort of the rOpenSci Champions Program We’re very excited to introduce the new rOpenSci Champions!

As a new Community Engagement Manager at Crossref, dedicated to working with the funders community, I frequently hear requests for examples and case studies of adopting Crossref’s Grant Linking System (GLS) by ‘funders like us’. This has spurred me to start a series of blog posts presenting funders’ perspectives on joining Crossref and using our system – to demonstrate how it’s done.

In mid-October 2024, Proochista Ariana announced the Oxford iHealth Champions programme - a re-brand of earlier efforts to encourage and support community-building among our Oxford IHTM alumni towards continued learning, collaboration, and impactful action along the lines of open and reproducible science. Nine months on, we are happy to welcome our latest batch of iHealth Champions from Oxford IHTM Class of 2025.

Scholarly blogs have established themselves as important platforms for making research findings and discourse accessible both within scientific communities and to the general public. Considering the changing social media landscape, the role of non-commercial infrastructures such as blogs or the Fediverse is becoming increasingly important.

Migrationsdiskurse in deutschen Medien sind überwiegend problemzentriert und defizitorientiert. Die Berichterstattung über die „Willkommenskultur“ im Zuge des langen Sommers der Migration schien diesen diskursiven Fokus zu verändern. Doch schon mit dem Diskursereignis „Silvesternacht in Köln“ wurden altbekannte Bedrohungsnarrative und kulturalistische Verallgemeinerungen über „die Anderen“ evident und prägten die Folgejahre.