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This blog post is reposted with permission from the Swiss Year of Scientometrics. You can read the original post here.

OpenCitations has always existed thanks to and for its community, a diverse network of institutions and individuals who believe in the value of open scholarly data. As a community-based open infrastructure, our strength lies in collaboration. The insights, feedback, and experiences shared by our community partners are what help us refine our services and keep our mission aligned with the evolving global research ecosystem.

read this article in English Eine Wissenschaftlerin zeigt mit ihrer Korallenforschung, wie kompliziert eine „einfache“ Frage sein kann. Für die Meeresbiologin Ana María Millán ist das Schwimmen im Meer wie das Betreten einer anderen Welt.

In den 100 Jahren ihres Bestehens hat die Quantenphysik kleinere, größere und bahnbrechende Ergebnisse hervorgebracht, dokumentiert in unzähligen Publikationen. Auch wenn viele davon vermutlich nur einem eher kleinen Kreis verständlich sind, ist es gut und wichtig, wenn diese – sei es für die Öffentlichkeit, sei es für Forschende an finanzschwachen Einrichtungen – frei zugänglich und nachnutzbar sind.

Cet article est l’opportunité de partager la présentation réalisée lors du congrès de l’Association des Chercheurs en Activités Physiques et Sportives à Poitiers. Après une brève présentation de l’état des lieux sur les enjeux climatiques en France, j’y aborde l’état des connaissances au sujet de l’activité physique, du sport et du changement climatique.

Ein Gastbeitrag des Open-Access-Teams der TU Berlin Das dritte Interview zur Open Access Week 2025 führte das Open-Access-Team der TU Berlin mit dem Kommunikationswissenschaftler und wissenschaftlichen Referenten für transdisziplinäre Lehre an der TU Berlin PD. Dr. Thorsten Philipp.

By Matt Boyd, Michael Baker, Amanda Kvalsvig & Nick Wilson (cross-posted from the PHCC Blog) Summary/TLDR The strategic divide in pandemic response Five years into the Covid-19 pandemic, with an estimated 27.3 million excess deaths globally,1 we now can look back and try to understand which control strategies worked best.

John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our short case study series.

What causes inflation in prices over time? Increases in the money supply, of course. Although there are many reasons for increasing prices over time, money supply is one of the few things that can do so and grow without bound. Case closed, right? Not quite. In practice we can’t perfectly observe how prices change over time and instead we must measure inflation with an index number.

Will Landau recently introduced the R-multiverse, a new way to publish R packages, during an rOpenSci community call. ¹ After that event, a coworking session allowed even more discussion between Will, his R-multiverse fellow administrators Jeroen Ooms and Maëlle Salmon, and community members.