Open Science Talk

• #59 The Lorraine Model

  In 2017, the University of Lorraine cancelled its subscription to Springer and in 2023, it cancelled its deal with Wiley. The money saved has been channeled into an Open Science Fund which supports open research infrastructures, training and support programmes for open research, and diamond open access publishing. With additional financing from regional research institutes and the national ministry, its annual budget currently amounts to approximately 500,000 Euros. A broad representative committee has been set up to decide on the use of the fund. In this episode, the Vice-President for Open Research and the Head of Research Support at the Library of the Université de Lorraine explain the Lorraine Model. More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.8074.

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• #58 10 Years of TROLLing: A Birthday Podcast Episode

  The Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing) published its first dataset on June 13, 2014. Since then, the repository has grown to 173 datasets, each of which is available in open access and equipped with metadata explaining its contents. Two of the most frequent users of the archive, professor of Russian linguistics Laura A. Janda and postdoc of English linguistics Lukas Sönning share their experiences and ideas for the future. A key message is how using a curated data repository has helped raising the quality of their own research by making it more transparent and reusable for others. More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.7631.

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• #57 KOALA – Building Support for Diamond Open Access

  The German initiative KOALA (in English, Building Consortial Open Access Solutions) is a bottom-up initiative that negotiates funding for Diamond Open Access by cutting into library budgets. By pooling resources from more than a hundred research libraries across Germany, KOALA has so far secured funding for ten peer-reviewed journals and two book series. More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at doi.org/10.7557/19.7561.

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• #56 IOI and Infra Finder

  The non-profit initiative IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure) works to increase the investment in, and adoption of, open infrastructure. This podcast episode was recorded in conjunction with the launch of the collaboratively developed, openly available Infra Finder database. More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.7551.

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• #55 The European Landscape of Institutional Publishing

  This episode discusses Diamond Open Access publishing services provided by institutions, occasioned by a recent landscape report on Institutional Publishing in the European Research Area and a synopsis of the same report. The main findings of the report are contextualized alongside previously assembled knowledge on Diamond Open Access journals and other on-going and future projects in the field. More details, including a transcript of the entire episode, can be found at https://doi.org/10.7557/19.7418.

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