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🌍🔓 EPFL backs key Swiss & global OA initiatives via SCOSS, helping sustain vital platforms like arXiv, DOAJ, Episciences & Open Policy Finder. Together, we’re keeping Open Science open, reliable & accessible.

🔗 go.epfl.ch/openaccess

#OAWeek #OpenScience #OAinitiatives #SCOSS
October 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The EPFL Research Data Support Network is officially launched! Bringing together experts to boost collaboration and best practices in RDM and ORD.

💡 Learn how it started and what’s next for a FAIR, sustainable data ecosystem: actu.epfl.ch/news/the-epf...

#RDM #OpenScience #FAIRdata
October 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v1.73. github.com/ror-communit...
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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📊 ReadMETRICS à la une dans Arabesques !

Découvrez la boîte à outils dédiée à la mesure des usages des ressources électroniques, développée par l’Inist et Couperin.org.

🔎 À lire dans Arabesques n°118 : publications-prairial.fr/arabesques/i...
October 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Research Data Workshop #2 with Dr. Guillaume Anciaux
📅 Nov 13, 2025 | 12:15–13:15

Part of EPFL Research Data Week
Full program: go.epfl.ch/erdw
💬 Register: go.epfl.ch/erdw-form
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Calling all colleagues at Swiss higher education institutions! How do you use data, code and software? Participate in the 2025 National Research Data Management Survey

Take the survey: library-survey.epfl.ch/c/4ri-rdm-su...

Learn more: www.lib4ri.ch/take-part-na...
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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💸✨ Academic publishing is evolving and so are its costs. We analyzed how Open Access publishing expenses have changed and where they are concentrated across our institution.
Explore the full findings: actu.epfl.ch/news/underst...

#OAWeek #OpenScience #ScholarlyPublishing #OAcosts
Understanding Open Access publishing costs at EPFL
Academic publishing has been progressively shifting from traditional subscription-based models to Open Access, placing increasing financial pressure on libraries and researchers. To better understand ...
actu.epfl.ch
October 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Development of an #OpenScience Monitor for the Netherlands!

A consortium with @cwtsnl.bsky.social and Dialogic, funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social, will develop a framework and dashboard in co-creation with the community. Your input is highly appreciated: www.openscience.nl/en/news/deve...
Development of an open science monitor for the Netherlands underway | Open Science NL
The development of a national open science monitor for the Netherlands has officially started with a project meeting held in Leiden on 9 October. With funding from Open Science NL, the consortium comprising CWTS and Dialogic will develop a robust, context-specific framework for monitoring and evaluation, as well as a prototype dashboard to visualise such an open science monitor.
www.openscience.nl
October 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Tomorrow in Neuchâtel, ~20 colleagues from Swiss HEIs meet for a #NAIF workshop on improving academic metadata. Mapping how organisational, authorship, funding and OA data connect & finding new ways to make Swiss research information more visible. eth-library.github.io/naif/news.html
NAIF - News
eth-library.github.io
October 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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3/3 “Establishing a negotiation framework and supporting resources will empower negotiators to set clear, consistent expectations.”
— Miranda Bennett (@caldiglib.bsky.social, OA2020)
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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2/3 “Many deals still leave basic metadata closed—universities can’t fully track their outputs.”
@ludowaltman.bsky.social (CWTS, Barcelona Declaration)
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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1/3 Launching the BD/OA2020 Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata.
We will work on: framework & clauses · tools/templates · pilots · capacity-building.

Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025100...
and: oa2020.org/2025/10/02/b...

#OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience
Barcelona Declaration and OA2020 launch Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata
We are excited to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata, established in partnership between the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information a...
barcelona-declaration.org
October 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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New on OpenAlex : a self-serve curation portal (think Wikipedia editing, but for scholarly metadata), where your changes go live in a day or two. 🥳 blog.openalex.org/were-now-ope...
October 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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⚡️ From CERN with energy!

Our team is at Open Science Fair 2025, where researchers, developers, educators, and policy-makers unite to accelerate Open Science through collaboration.

#OpenAIRE #OSFair2025 #OpenScience #CERN #FAIR #opensciencecommunity
September 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I'm wondering if COAR Notify (linked data notifications and activity streams) could be a good technical mechanism to enable or support the COMET model (www.cometadata.org/the-comet-mo...), as a way to share metadata enrichments in a transparent, decentralized, and community-driven way.
The COMET Model — COMET
www.cometadata.org
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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EPFL, ETH Zurich & CSCS just released Apertus, Switzerland’s first fully open-source large language model.
Trained on 15T tokens in 1,000+ languages, it’s built for transparency, responsibility & the public good.

Read more: actu.epfl.ch/news/apertus...
September 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Share your #metadata story and submit an idea for a flash talk at the @crossref.bsky.social 25th anniversary annual meeting! Abstracts are due Sept 20th, meeting dates are October 22-23. #Crossref2025 www.crossref.org/crossref-ann...
Crossref Annual Meeting and Board Election 2025 - Crossref
#Crossref2025 online, 22-23 October 2025 Don’t miss Crossref Annual Meeting and Board Election this year! We invite all our members from 160+ countries—and everyone in our community—to join us for…
www.crossref.org
August 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🛠 The right tools at every stage of your research lifecycle!
➡️ go.epfl.ch/rdm-tools

Explore tools to help you with:
⚙️ Planning & design
⚙️ Data collection
⚙️ Processing & analysis
⚙️ Archiving and preserving
⚙️ Publication & sharing
⚙️ Discover and re-use
⚙️ Data documentation
August 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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🧑‍⚖️ Choosing the right license is key to sharing your work openly and responsibly. Our Research Data Publication Decision Tree makes it simple — one quick guide to get it right!

➡️ infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api/c...

#RDM #guides #EPFLlibrary #EPFL
August 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Which metadata elements are essential for journals?

We round up our top recommendations from @orcid.org,
@crossref.bsky.social, @researchorgs.bsky.social, I4OA, I4OC, and more in this blog post: buff.ly/f4IIEuW
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Petit exercice à partir des données #Infoscience (2019–2025), enrichies via l’API #OpenAlex. Objectif : évaluer la qualité de la réconciliation des affiliations EPFL via #ROR dans OpenAlex et repérer les cas mal ou non reconnus. Résultat sur 30000 publications et quelques
July 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A brilliant guide, exactly the kind we need more of! Learn how to boost the visibility of your institutional repository. The TOBI (Towards Open Bibliometric Indicators) project delivers practical tips with real-world examples. Huge thanks! doi.org/10.3929/ethz...
July 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM