Libraries – Open Science Radio

OSR178 WikiCite 2020 – Satellite Cologne Preview [EN]

17. Februar 2020

Following the international WikiCite conferences in 2016, 2017 and 2018 the first WikiCite Satellite conference will take place this year in Cologne, Germany. It is organized by ZB MED – Informationcenter for Life Sciences, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and TH Köln – University of Applied Sciences and will take place May 6th – 8th 2020 at GESIS in Cologne.
„The event aims to connect local library institutions and academic researchers with the WikiCite community in their shared interest in an open infrastructure about open citations and linked bibliographic data for research and education. WikiCite is a growing bibliographic knowledge base connected to projects of the Wikimedia Foundation such as Wikipedia and Wikidata.“
Listen in to Konrad and Philipp Schaer sharing some information and their expectations. Enjoy!

OSR153 Open Science as a Library Service #oscibar [EN]

18. März 2019

This is another episode from our coverage of the Barcamp Open Science. In this episode Konrad talked with Christina Riesenweber about her session in which she tried to further discuss what services libraries can do to support the further integration of Open Science into their institutions?

OSR105 Libraries as Publishers #oscibar [EN]

12. März 2018

We met Alexander Kouker who just moderated a session at #oscibar about publishing at libraries and is kind enough to share his motivation, impression and outcomes of the session with us.

OSR098 Academic Publishing Infrastructures with Björn Brembs [EN]

1. März 2018

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Academic publishing that is. And actually not only in Denmark. Even though open access publishing has picked up quite a bit over the last years, academic publishing today is still rather dominated by legacy publishers who mainly play their old game without much signs of changing and adapting to current technological and scientific developments. In fact, many of them are not even showing much willingness to consider changing. A lot of the recent studies and arguments point out that a complete transition to open access publishing potentially yields many positive social effects for the academic system and society as a whole, and even might achieved quite substantial savings. We had the great opportunity to talk Björn Brembs about these points, the obstacles, the necessary steps and a vision of how a publishing infrastructure could look like.

We apologize for the less optimal audio quality and hope you’re still enjoying the conversation. Have fun!