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The new report, Optimising the UK’s university research infrastructure assets, aims to help identify more opportunities for collaboration, attracting investment, developing skills and reducing bureaucracy. The report identifies four key areas of opportunity for the research sector, which it recommends should receive extra investment to promote knowledge exchange and the commercialisation of research and development.

PID Network Germany launched March 2023. The aim of the project is to establish a network of already existing and currently forming actors around the persistent identification of persons, organizations, publications, resources, and infrastructures in the field of digital communication in science and culture. Project partner institutions are DataCite, the German National Library, the Helmholtz Open Science Office, Bielefeld University Library, and the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB).

In this article, Sabina Leonelli questions the idea that science consists in the accumulation of facts, methods and insights, whose free circulation, scaffolded by technologically sophisticated infrastructures, suffices to guarantee research progress. She contends that this view of research is misleading and unrealistic, and that related understandings of openness are unlikely to deliver the epistemic benefits associated to the OS movement in the long term. This is not because the technologically mediated sharing of resources is not relevant to scientific development, but rather because sharing does not constitute a necessary starting point nor a sufficient condition for conducting reliable and responsible open science.

The UNESCO Open Science Toolkit is designed to support the implementation of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. The Toolkit is a set of guides, policy briefs, factsheets and indexes. Each piece is a living resource updated to reflect new developments and the status of implementation of the Recommendation. Elements of this toolkit are developed in collaboration with UNESCO Open Science partners or through discussions with and inputs from the members of the UNESCO Working Groups on Open Science.

This article by Gaelle Bequet, Director of the ISSN International Centre, describes the creation process of an identifier through the lens of the Social Construction Of Technology (SCOT) and the Actor Network Theory (ANT). This research uses primary sources available on the ORCID and ISNI websites as well as grey literature provided by a librarian involved in the development of ISNI. Secondary sources such as peer-reviewed articles are also quoted. The social groups supporting ORCID are identified. ORCID’s development model is analyzed. The relation between ORCID and the advent of systems monitoring public scientific production is established.

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Management, Florianópolis, v. 11, n. 29, p. 125- 160, 2022. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil.

The Ministry of Higher Education and Research has published the results of the Open Science 2022 barometer, which measured for the fourth consecutive year an increase in the rate of French scientific publications in open access. 67% of French scientific publications published in 2021 were open access in December 2022. This indicator has been steadily increasing since the creation of the index, with a gain of 5 points compared to the previous year and 29 points since 2018. 74% of doctoral theses defended in 2020 are open access, a figure that reaches 95% in the fields of mathematics and astronomy. 22% of French scientific publications that rely on the production of a dataset ensure its release or distribution.

In November 2022, the Open Science Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Science in Argentina released  its “Diagnosis and Guidelines for an Open Science Policy in Argentina”. The report criticizes the extension of the APC model, “because it implies a growing disparity between researchers and/or their institutions that can afford APCs with respect to of the rest. Likewise, the generalization of the payment of APC is promoting a growing commodification of journals, with the distortions that this can cause in science evaluation processes.” The key role of CONICET, host to ISSN Argentina, in the assessment of researchers’ careers needs to evolve and incorporate in the process a minimum percentage of publications deposited in open access repositories. Publishing in diamond-access Argentinean journals that are indexed and/or belong to the Basic Nucleus of Argentine Journals (CAICyT) should be valued.

The Swedish Presidency of the Council of the European Union is pushing to implement FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) principles in all research outputs and across disciplines. This is a significant undertaking for Europe, and it requires changes in research culture and infrastructure. These changes must also align with international partners in like-minded regions and countries, and the ministers exchanged views on whether the EU should take action to accelerate this work.