tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4500/feed_itemsnpscience's bookmarks2023-03-15T10:05:20-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72150952023-03-15T09:38:30-04:002023-03-15T10:05:20-04:00Commercialisation and Open Science Do Not Have to Be Uneasy Bedfellows | RAND, 2021<p>Case study based on Wellcome Sanger Institute and Wellcome Genome Campus looking at two ways for science to have impact – commercialisation and open science – and an example at the intersection: a public/private partnership for which data is shared openly after a delay, during which only commercial partners have access to data.</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/71046532023-03-03T09:52:04-05:002023-03-03T09:52:04-05:00RSA Regions RSA Regions -<p>Potential source of academic research about regional economics and tech innovation; hosted by the Regional Studies Association (registered in the UK https://www.regionalstudies.org/about/contacts/)</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70985492023-02-28T09:00:19-05:002023-03-01T07:23:53-05:00DataCite launches Global Access Program with support from CZI – DataCite Blog<p><span>DataCite is proud to announce the launch of our Global Access Program (GAP), which is designed to increase access to and adoption of PID services and infrastructure for communities beyond the Global North. The program is made possible by Grant 2022-316573 from the </span><a href="https://chanzuckerberg.com/">Chan Zuckerberg Initiative</a><span>.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70890902023-02-23T08:51:06-05:002023-03-06T07:00:09-05:00EIFL support boosts open access in Ghana | EIFL<p>A project supported by EIFL has led to the establishment of seven new institutional open access repositories at institutions in Ghana. The project also improved repositories at nine institutions and strengthened understanding of open access journal publishing at 19 institutions. Implemented by our national partner library consortium, the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH) in 2021/22, the project aimed to increase accessibility and visibility of research at CARLIGH member institutions. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/70890962023-02-23T10:14:13-05:002023-03-06T06:59:17-05:00New partnership to promote open data awareness and participation in Africa - Digital Science<p>"Figshare – a world leader in digital infrastructure that supports open research, and part of Digital Science – has formed a new partnership with the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), which is committed to open data and information sharing across Africa. The partnership is aimed at promoting open data awareness and participation in Africa, to improve access to and use of open data across the continent...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/66017972023-01-13T10:32:15-05:002023-01-13T10:32:15-05:00Executive Director’s blog: on the GCBR announcement - Global Biodata Coalition<p>Announcement of the selection of the first 37 biodata resources to be included in the Global Biodata Coalition's Global Core Biodata Resource (GCBR). The GCBR includes deposition databases and knowledgebases considered essential for science. The resource will be used to help the membership body (including funders) understand challenges to sustainability for biodata resource initiatives and coordinate action.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/65825302023-01-12T09:51:19-05:002023-02-21T15:33:08-05:00It is imperative to build open science capabilities in MENA | 12 January 2023"Universities and higher education institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are starting to join the open science movement, recognising its potential to enhance the accessibility, inclusivity and sustainability of higher education systems and research communities. But there are many challenges. An indication of interest in open science in the region was the registration of more than 1,000 delegates – in person and virtually – for the first ever Forum for Open Research in MENA (FORM) gathering held in Egypt last year. Open science topics will be discussed again at the second FORM forum, which will be held in the United Arab Emirates in October 2023, and at the International Conference on E-Science and Open Science in Dubai from 20-21 December 2023. University World News interviewed higher education experts to get their views on the significance of having a vision for open science, and the challenges facing open science in the MENA region along with ways to deal with it. Open research status Out of 22 Arab states, only 12 countries have open access publishers including Iraq (85), Egypt (70), Algeria (28), Morocco (28), Saudi Arabia (18), Qatar (12), Syria (11) United Arab Emirates (9), Oman (7), Yemen (6), Tunisia (5) and Libya (5), according to the Directory of Open Access Journals. Nabil Ksibi is an engagement lead for ORCID – a global non-profit that connects research and researchers – specialising in the Middle East and Africa. He said: “Adopting open research good practices would help a lot in making research activities in the MENA region FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable), which are also important principles to consider in order to move forward with the whole schoolroom ecosystem. “The MENA region, however, is still very young in terms of open research adoption,” Ksibi told University World News. “We are still missing huge knowledge on how the open infrastructure is working and how institutions can work together with open calls in between systems (machine to machine connections).”..."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/59537402022-11-17T15:27:28-05:002023-03-01T06:18:23-05:00How funding agencies can meet OSTP (and Open Science) guidance using existing open infrastructure - Crossref<p>"In August 2022, the United States Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a memo (PDF) on ensuring free, immediate, and equitable access to federally funded research (a.k.a. the “Nelson memo”). Crossref is particularly interested in and relevant for the areas of this guidance that cover metadata and persistent identifiers—and the infrastructure and services that make them useful. Funding bodies worldwide are increasingly involved in research infrastructure for dissemination and discovery. While this post does respond to the OSTP guidelines point-by-point, the information here applies to all funding bodies in all countries. It will be equally useful for publishers and other systems that operate in the scholarly research ecosystem. In response to calls from our community for more specifics, this post: Provides an overview of the specific ways that Crossref (along with organisations and initiatives like DataCite, ORCID, and ROR) helps U.S. federal agencies—and indeed any other funder—meet critical aspects of the recommendations. Restates our intent to collaborate with all stakeholders in the scholarly research ecosystem, including the OSTP, the US federal agencies, our existing funder, publisher, and university members, to support the recommendation as plans develop. References the work and adoption of Crossref Grant DOIs, including analyses of existing metadata matching funding to outputs. Highlights that what’s outlined in the memo aligns with our longstanding mission to capture and maintain the scholarly record and our vision of the Research Nexus, as we describe in our current blog series, regarding our role in preserving the integrity of the scholarly record (ISR). ..."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72343472023-03-16T10:50:37-04:002023-03-16T10:55:54-04:00Science, technology and innovation (STI) ecosystem in Ghana | 2022<p>Authored by Ghana Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (CSIR_STEPRI) and Ghana Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI).</p>
<p>Prepared in April 2021.</p>
<p>"This report is primarily aimed at presenting the state of Ghana’s STI system. However, the specific objective is to carry out a mapping of the national STI multi-stakeholders and partners."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72343482023-03-16T10:55:03-04:002023-03-16T10:55:03-04:00Ghana’s science, technology and innovation (STI) system in the context of the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers: baseline report - UNESCO Digital Library | 2022<p>"This report was prepared by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) under the auspices of the Ministry of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation (MESTI) in Accra-Ghana, June 2021."</p>
<p>This report benchmarks Ghana's Science, technology and innovation system against the norms and standards of the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science and Scientific Researchers (RS|SR), and identifies gaps, needs, strengths and weaknesses.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72322402023-03-16T08:17:49-04:002023-03-16T10:45:46-04:00Africa-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures 2021<p>"The virtual two-day symposium brings together delegates from African and European Research Infrastructures (RIs), science policy organisations and research institutions to discuss opportunities and challenges for RI cooperations between Africa and Europe.</p>
<p>We hope to raise awareness of individual RIs, to identify measures to mitigate current challenges of biregional cooperations between RIs, to initiate new and strengthening existing collaborations, and to initiate networks in a sustainable way so that all stakeholders benefit."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72322352023-03-16T08:16:22-04:002023-03-16T10:41:19-04:00Recommendations towards cooperation between African and European research infrastructures | RI-VIS, Zenodo, 2021<p>"The RI-VIS project is a Horizon 2020-funded project to increase the visibility and raise awareness of European RIs to new communities beyond Europe. This report, as part of RI-VIS, focuses on ways to increase collaboration between African and European RIs. It collates the insights of experts from African RIs, European RIs and policymakers into sections that cover examples of successful collaboration, lessons learned and possible challenges/bottlenecks."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/72318022023-03-16T07:32:21-04:002023-03-16T10:44:51-04:00Mapping support for Africa's Infrastructure Investment | 2012<p>2011 report from OECD mapping development aid and financing into Africa's infrastructure (in broad terms: water, transport, energy, communications). Communications infra is relevant to ICT supporting research and education - around 2010, ICT infra is receiving less development financing than other areas, and more supported by public-private partnerships and commercial investment.</p>