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Science|Business @sciencebusiness.net · 5d

Europe’s #research still leans on foreign #datainfrastructure, a risk, warns the #EuropeanParliament. Dependence could undermine #openscience and #innovation, spurring calls for stronger EU capacity.

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Dependence on foreign data infrastructure threatens EU research, Parliament hears

Europe must reduce its dependence on foreign-controlled databases, particularly those in the US, the European Parliament has heard. Dependence on these resources leaves European researchers and…

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · 7d

We believe preprints and open peer review are central to reducing publishing expenses. 💰📝

We have crafted a response to NIH Request for Information on “Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs,” where you can learn about the details of our recommendations. buff.ly/v9I0i9v

ASAPbio Response To NIH Request For Information On “Maximizing Research Funds By Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs” (NOT-OD-25-138) – ASAPbio

NIH seeks to reduce its publishing expenses, while encouraging high quality research, in order to be good stewards of its limited public funding. Certainly,

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · 12d

Big news! @hhmi.org has released an Immediate Access to Research policy that requires preprint deposit with CC-BY licenses and eliminates financial support for APCs. Congrats to all the folks at HHMI for making this happen! 🎊 #OpenScience #OpenResearch #Preprints www.linkedin.com/posts/orfg_i...

Immediate Access to Research | Open Research Funders Group

Folks at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) moving the open needle forward... great work in support of #Preprints #OpenScience #OpenData and #OpenResearch. Kudos! 🎊

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · 12d

"We respectfully recommend that NIH prioritize direct investment—centrally and/or through allowable costs—in existing open infrastructure to disseminate research outputs." 👍 #OpenScience #Preprints

Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · 13d

We share our response to NIH's APC cap proposal. Key message: invest in shared #OpenInfrastructure to maximize the impact of taxpayer dollars accelerate knowledge dissemination and use, and strengthen the sustainability of #OpenResearch ecosystem.

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IOI’s Response to NIH's Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs

IOI recently responded to the US National Institutes of Health Request for Information on Maximizing Research Funds by Limiting Allowable Publishing Costs. In this post, you will find the prompts from...

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · 19d

Great work coming out of the @americanheart.bsky.social in support of #OpenData and #OpenScience!

SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · 19d

Hats off to the American Heart Association, an @orfg.bsky.social member, for walking grantees through how to make #OpenScience happen. New videos & training materials on the #AHAScience website help model open practices that can accelerate discovery in research. sparcopen.org/news/2025/am...

American Heart Association Amplifies Impact of Research with Open Policies - SPARC

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · 21d

@txtbks.bsky.social of @sparcopen.bsky.social and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation talked with @thelever.bsky.social about automatic textbook billing. Great to see this problem getting news coverage. AND awesome to see funders doing something about it. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenFunder

How Wall Street Broke The College Bookstore | Open Research Funders Group

Shoutout to Nicole Allen of SPARC and Cailyn Nagle of Michelson 20MM Foundation who spoke to The Lever about the problems at university bookstores, particularly the use of automatic textbook billing. ...

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Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · Aug 28

🗓 1week to go!

Join us Sept 4, 11 AM ET, for the wrap-up of IOI’s Reasonable Costs project: findings, tools, and implementations for public access to research.

Register now: investinopen.civicrm.org/civicrm/even...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Aug 18

Delighted to welcome @tracykteal.bsky.social as the CEO of @openrxiv.bsky.social - Tracy brings a wealth of experience in non-profit leadership and open science to the the team, and we're all so excited to be working with her openrxiv.org/announcing-c...

Dr. Tracy Teal named CEO of openRxiv, to lead the next phase in the evolution of open science - openRxiv

After an exhaustive, international search, the openRxiv Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Tracy Teal as the organization’s inaugural CEO. Dr Teal has served as interim COO of openRxiv since its lau...

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Aug 12

@creativecommons.bsky.social has released this new video on open licenses. 🎥 Take a peek and share with others who want/need to understand how CC licenses work. 🔁 #OpenAccess #copyright #OpenLicense #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Open Licensing for Research with Creative Commons

YouTube video by Creative Commons

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Congress may be on recess, but there are still things coming out of DC that will have far-reaching effects on science funding and that continue to contribute to the the funding instability faced by many researchers.
#SciencePolicy #funding

Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · Aug 7

The president just issued an executive order asserting new and wide-ranging authority over the issuance of federal grants. This will have huge repercussions for the daily operations of US science. 🧪

Also, lawyers are gonna be lawyering.

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Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 7

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information https://www.researchinformation.info/news/u-s-book-publisher-launches-under-platinum-open-access-model/

U.S. book publisher launches under "platinum open access" model - Research Information

Publisher "committed to equity, transparency, and author empowerment, eliminating barriers to knowledge dissemination"

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Aug 6

"Transparency filtered through the lens of editorial acceptance is not true transparency; it is selective disclosure." 👏👏👏
@bodorama.bsky.social

#openscience #preprints #peerreview #nature

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · Aug 6

💥 New: Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture

✍️ @bodorama.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PeerReview #ScholComm

Nature’s decision to publish positive peer review reports only gives half the picture - Impact of Social Sciences

As the journal Nature moves to publish peer review reports for accepted papers, Bodo Stern argues this partial openness falls short of true transparency.

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Aug 5

Please help us welcome @schmidtsciences.bsky.social as the newest ORFG supporting member! 🎉https://www.orfg.org/news/2025/8/4/schmidt-sciences-joins-orfg

#openscience #philanthropy #openresearch #opendata #sciencefunding

Schmidt Sciences Joins ORFG — Open Research Funders Group

The Open Research Funders Group (ORFG) is pleased to welcome Schmidt Sciences as a supporting member. Founded in 2024, Schmidt Sciences brings together the science-focused efforts of Eric and Wendy ...

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infoDOCKET @infodocket.bsky.social · Jul 29

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Launches YouTube Channel (via @barcelonadori.bsky.social) barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025072... #openresearch #libraries

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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · Jul 28

Our #OpenEducation 101 kicks off Aug. 13 @ 2pm EDT. Intro session will cover core principles, key terms & how #OpenEd connects to #OpenAccess & #OpenScience. Learn how OE can remove barriers & expand opportunities for students & educators. Free & open to all. Register: sparcopen.org/news/2025/op...

Open Education 101 Series - SPARC

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Jul 22

A reaction to the NIH APC price caps announcement on @upstreamblog.bsky.social. Christopher Steven Marcum asks: "Will they backfire?" upstream.force11.org/capping-apcs...

#openaccess #publicaccess #openscience #nih #publicaccesspolicy #apcs #pricecaps #scholarlycommunication #repositories

Capping APCs May Backfire on NIH

Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced it will cap the amount of direct funding support that researchers can spend on paying for article processing charges, or APCs. These fees ar...

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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Jul 18

💖 these key insights from the @investinopen.bsky.social project. "1. Start with governance, not technology... 2. Transparency isn't negotiable... 3. Meet your community where they are... 4. Design for evolution." #openscience #openinfrastructure #openscholarship #openresearch #opendata

Invest in Open Infrastructure @investinopen.bsky.social · Jul 18

What if governance came first?

We partnered with DeSci Foundation to embed transparency and openness into the CODEX Protocol from day one. See how intentional governance can build trust in decentralized scholarly systems.

Building open governance: Partnering with DeSci Foundation on the CODEX Protocol

Lessons on incorporating governance at the onset of open scholarly infrastructure development from our partnership with DeSci Foundation

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ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · Jul 17

The current academic publishing system is expensive and outdated. What can be done about it?
Join us for a critical conversation on how we can build an open, community-led alternative.

#OpenScience
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Open Research Funders Group @orfg.bsky.social · Jul 16

Excellent work to show alignment with funder preprint policies! Keeping the work going in the #openscience and #openoutput space. #preprints #funderpolicies

ASAPbio @asapbio.bsky.social · Jul 16

[email protected] and @creativecommons.bsky.social are pleased to announce the launch of the Preprint Policy Framework that aims to align funder and organizational policies, promoting open, reusable, timely, and rigorous research communication.
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SPARC @sparcopen.bsky.social · Jul 11

We have examples of the transformative impact of #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenEducation #OER #OpenScience #OpenScholarship. Download & share! sparcopen.org/impact-stori...

Impact Stories Archive - SPARC

Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education have already resulted in significant advancements in disease prevention, economic development, crisis management, improved education, researcher career devel...

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Open Science Fair @osfair.bsky.social · Jul 11

The #OSFair2025 programme is taking shape & it’s full of bold ideas, key voices, and inspiring sessions!

Explore the full schedule now on our official event site 👉 www.opensciencefair.eu/2025/programme

Let the countdown to Geneva begin!

#OpenScience #CERN @openaire.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · Jul 11

Is there anyone in this community who has worked with the Food For Peace Management Information System (catalog.data.gov/dataset/food...). We know it was restricted access but we had a researcher with questions about it. If you could get in touch with us (or just reshare this), that would awesome!

US Agency for International Development - Food For Peace Management Information System

FFPMIS is an online system managed by Devis and Micropact designed to track programs within FFP from initial submission to program closure. It is also tasked with tracking both...

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Jul 10

Register now for next week's ROR Community Call on July 16! We'll be talking timeline for deprecation of ROR version 1, plus hearing from @fondsrechercheqc.bsky.social and @researchdataall.bsky.social about how they use ROR. ror.org/events/#ror-...

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