(Source: Iconographic by SPARC Europe : Setting the dafault to Open) Copyright law aims to achieve a balance between the interests of creators (so they receive a reward for their works) and the public interest in terms of ensuring the public has access to such works. Legal flexibilities in Copyright - ...

The Research4Life (R4L) is delighted to announce the release of its October 2017 Newsletter ! As R4L gears up to launch GOALI (Global Online Access to Legal Information), its 5th programme focused on the rule of law early next year (see:  the formal approval of GOALI) ...... it has been ...

While international Open Research & Education community gears up for OpenCon 2017 to take place in Berlin from the 11 to 13 November, 2017, OpenCon orginizers are inviting all interested parties to contribute to a “DO-A-THON” (“a day of making, strategizing, and collaborating on projects to advance Open Research and Open Education”).Even if the ...

[Download as a PowerPoint slide; source*]   The International Wheat Initiative (IWI) has identified easy access and interoperability of all wheat-related data as a top priority for the wheat research community (and agriculture in general), which is in line with FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) data principles. Interoperability - - understood ...

(Image sources: METADATA 2020 initiative & UKSG Conference 2017) Is it possible to achieve high quality metadata at the institutional level? A new ambitious METADATA 2020 initiative's belief is that investing in richer metadata* should be the scholarly community’s top priority. Good, satisfactory, open, connected and re-usable metadata reduces mis-communication and mis-interpretation, fuels ...