Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration
We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.
Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 
Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/
More on the updates mentioned above:
- Wellcome signs the Barcelona Declaration: https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20250804_wellcome_signs_bd/
- Report of the Bologna Meeting on Open Research Information: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15730917
- Translations of the Barcelona Declaration: https://barcelona-declaration.org/translations/
- National Networks: https://barcelona-declaration.org/national_networks/
New report published
The event, which took place on April 25, featured discussions on the Barcelona Declaration, current Helmholtz activities, and the challenges & opportunities surrounding open research information.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16419876
#OpenScience #OpenResearch #BarcelonaDeclaration @BarcelonaDORI @MsPhelps @LeaMariaFer
Bologna Meeting morning session
Welcome by @essepuntato & Raffaella Campaner
Update by @MsPhelps Implementation journeys from Carla Carbonell Cortés, @chodacki & Ana Ranitovic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1USShJ5cO9U
WOOC2025 Day 2
Talks, lightning sessions & posters by key voices from the open research infrastructure community
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJfoW7ub2AkxzLLaXcpJOt5ccSdG24WH2&si=cRPwWEfBTKnXM1UF
How are Italian institutions putting open research information into practice?
At the University of Milan, 23 organizations came together to explore how collaboration with open infrastructures like @OpenAlex @opencitations and @OpenAIRE can drive systemic change.
It’s all part of the #BarcelonaDeclaration, and it’s already happening
https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20250709_university_of_milan_workshop/
For the publication metadata nerds: I tried to create clarity (ahum) by visualising the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The links goes to the online version that is fully animated, as well as additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful.
#metadata #PID #publishing #repository #barcelonadeclaration #crossref @crossref @OpenAlex
Welcome Wellcome!
Wellcome Trust is the first UK funder to sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, strengthening our community’s shared commitment to making research information open, reliable, and reusable.
Funders play a pivotal role in how research information is recorded, shared, and reused.
https://barcelona-declaration.org/signatories
The #WOOC2025 in #Bologna will start in a few minutes. Looking forward to the discussions. Today we start with a day dedicated to the @BarcelonaDORI.
Program: https://barcelona-declaration.org/conference_2025_bologna/
For those interested in #OpenResearchInformation: In this policy it is now declared that the TIB supports #OpenAccess by...
"Making its own indexing data and research information available for re-use under CC0, in line with the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information."
The yearly report of the @tibhannover has been published, and I'm very happy that the #BarcelonaDeclaration on #OpenResearchInformation (ORI) has such a prominent place in it: https://www.tib-report.eu/en/2024#mehropenness
A bit below you can find a section on 15 years of @datacite , which was co-funded by TIB, and is a key actor in ORI, too: https://www.tib-report.eu/en/2024#jahredatacite
I'm looking forward to 2025, which will bring a lot more activities in this field.
The hybrid event "Advancing Open Science: The Barcelona Declaration and Open Research Information" is happening Dec 6 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Register now to learn more about the #BarcelonaDeclaration, @crossref, and ROR.
Upon last week's news that Elsevier is following Springer Nature in having abstracts removed from @OpenAlex I've published a blog post looking more in detail at abstract coverage in @crossref and OpenAlex, and discussing some of the implications:
https://bmkramer.github.io/SesameOpenScience_site/thought/202411_open_abstracts/
We are seeing increased commodification of abstracts - perhaps not surprising given their importance in GenAI.
In 2022, SpringerNature had abstracts from
'their' non-open access articles removed from @OpenAlex
Now Elsevier appears to have done the same.
https://github.com/ourresearch/openalex-guts/commit/b85b3bc77cf9c0f3bd162426a2ba0dacdc951065
Needless to say, neither provide abstracts for these articles to @crossref either: https://i4oa.org/#:~:text=The%20following%20figure.
Is this how open we want research abstracts to be?
![Githiub commit excluding abstracts from non-open access articles from OpenAlex for Springer and Elsevier
Code reads:
Line 2142-2145:
@property
def is_closed_springer(self):
publisher_str = (
self.journal and self.journal.publisher) or self.publisher
if publisher_str and 'springer' in publisher_str.lower():
def is_closed_springer_or_elsevier(self):
publisher_str = (self.journal and self.journal.publisher) or self.publisher
if publisher_str and ('springer' in publisher_str.lower() or 'elsevier' in publisher_str.lower()):
return not self.is_oa
return False
Line 2425-2428:
my_dict['authorships'] = my_dict.get('authorships', [])[0:100]
my_dict['authorships_truncated'] = True
if self.is_closed_springer:
if self.is_closed_springer_or_elsevier:
logger.info(f"not saving abstract for {self.paper_id} {self.doi}")](https://cdn.masto.host/akademienlsocial/media_attachments/files/113/520/063/509/431/417/original/6091e030c72de907.png "Githiub commit excluding abstracts from non-open access articles from OpenAlex for Springer and Elsevier
Code reads:
Line 2142-2145:
@property
def is_closed_springer(self):
publisher_str = (
self.journal and self.journal.publisher) or self.publisher
if publisher_str and 'springer' in publisher_str.lower():
def is_closed_springer_or_elsevier(self):
publisher_str = (self.journal and self.journal.publisher) or self.publisher
if publisher_str and ('springer' in publisher_str.lower() or 'elsevier' in publisher_str.lower()):
return not self.is_oa
return False
Line 2425-2428:
my_dict['authorships'] = my_dict.get('authorships', [])[0:100]
my_dict['authorships_truncated'] = True
if self.is_closed_springer:
if self.is_closed_springer_or_elsevier:
logger.info(f\"not saving abstract for {self.paper_id} {self.doi}\")")
A Jupyter notebook that reads the signatories of the @BarcelonaDORI, counts the signatories per country and paints the counts in a worldmap.
Repo: https://github.com/hauschke/barcelonaDORI_map
It's more or less a test of Github Actions, it updates every afternoon at 4 PM CET. 
Yesterday, @scienceeurope released an interesting report of "Strategic Approaches to and Research Assessment of Open Science"
This survey report provides a descriptive analysis of the role that public research funding and performing organisations in Europe play in the evolving landscape of #OpenScience and research assessment reform.
Has anyone tried using the #opensource bibliometric tool 'Matilda' developed in #France? https://matilda.science/. The coverage appears to be less comprehensive than that of @OpenAlex.
#OpenScience #barcelonadeclaration #openresearchinformation
FIZ Karlsruhe has signed the #barcelonadeclaration on Open Research Information!
By doing so, we’re taking a strong stand for transparency and open access to scientific information. With services like #zbMATHOpen we’re already offering free access to research data and publications.
We’re excited to be part of this movement and to actively shape the future of #OpenScience!
https://tinyurl.com/27l3mvez
https://barcelona-declaration.org/
ROR is grateful to @ORCID_Org for its years of support and for its recent renewal of that support! We are also impressed by the terrific ROR-driven features ORCID has implemented. https://info.orcid.org/orcid-renews-support-of-ror-to-maximize-the-quality-of-organization-information-for-researchers/ #metadata #PIDs #BarcelonaDeclaration
Now Kyle of @OpenAlex , Michele of @Lyrasis and me were talking - very fast - about #OpenResearchInformation in #VIVO. Call to action: support open infrastructures by funding, in-kind contributions, participation in working groups!
