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Towards a global Open Research Environment. Highlights from the “ESFRI Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures” and the “EC Communication about the European Cloud Initiative"

12/05/2016

In March and April 2016 the European research community saw the release of two important documents: the ESFRI Strategy Report on Research Infrastructures - Roadmap 2016 and the Building a competitive data and knowledge economy in Europe. Their unifying aspect is: an Open Research environment ensuring Europe a leading place in the ...

Highlights from the COAR 2016 Annual Meeting & General Assembly

11/05/2016

The COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) 2016 Annual Meeting & General Assembly was hosted by the University of Vienna from 11 to 14 April, 2016. This international event contained eleven sessions which were attended by eighty-tree participants.  Below you can read some highlights from COAR (@COAR_eV) 2016 which have traced current developments  in relation ...

PhenoHarmonIS 2016 workshop 9-13 May: web streaming available

10/05/2016

PhenoHarmonIS 2016 workshop on Semantics for Harmonization and Integration of Phenotyping and Agronomic Data will be held from 9-13 May in Montpellier, France.  Rational and objectives, agenda and participants' list are available on the workshop web site :  http://tinyurl.com/ho4j922.  We are expecting 80 participants from 17 countries and of various ...

Have you signed up for openness in research?

09/05/2016

Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative calls for transparency in research, asking scientists to apply certain minimal standards by 2017We blogged recently about F1000Research – what it is and why transparent peer-review on a public platform is important.Back in January a group of researchers led by Cardiff University launched an initiative ...

D4Science Hybrid Data Infrastructure facilitating data sharing and research collaborations

09/05/2016

D4Science is an organization offering an Hybrid Data Infrastructure since 2009 for seamless access and analysis to a wide spectrum of data including biological andecological data, geospatial data, statistical data and semi-structured data from multiple authoritative data providers and information systems.“Modern science calls for innovative practices to facilitate research ...