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Enhancing machine-readability in scientific publishing: introducing the JATS XML Converter Service

Authors: Ljiljana Jertec Musap, Draženko Celjak, Petra Čačić,  Ivan JelenićUniversity of Zagreb, University Computing Centre SRCE Reviewers: Ronald Snijder, Jadranka Stojanovski Challenges in Open Access Publishing In the evolving landscape of academic publishing, the push towards open access (OA) has gained significant momentum, particularly with the advent of initiatives like Plan S. Launched by cOAlition … Continue reading Enhancing machine-readability in scientific publishing: introducing the JATS XML Converter Service

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Evaluation to foster innovation in RIs in SSH

Author: Davide Emanuele Iannace Reviewers: Françoise Gouzi Evaluation is a key to enlarging the capabilities of the RIs to be innovative actors in their own field. It gives them a key to understand their own kingdom and their reality. Again, it is a moment of reflection and self-assessment, useful to steer the course of action … Continue reading Evaluation to foster innovation in RIs in SSH

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OPERAS Innovation Lab Observatory welcomes your contributions!

At the OPERAS Innovation Lab we aim at observing, recognising, and supporting innovation in the humanities and social sciences. Search and recognition come before support – therefore we invite innovators and creators to share their projects with the Lab’s team and present their innovative approach on the Observatory blog. Your contributions will be disseminated within … Continue reading OPERAS Innovation Lab Observatory welcomes your contributions!

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Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment 

Key Insights from the OPERAS Innovation Lab Workshop in Zadar (OPERAS Conference, April 2024) Authors and contributors: Magdalena Wnuk, Maciej Maryl, Elena Sokolova, Françoise Gouzi, Ronald Snijder, Tomasz Umerle Reviewers: Karla Avanço, Frank Manista In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, innovators in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) often grapple with fundamental questions: How … Continue reading Navigating Sustainability, Visibility, and Research Assessment 

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When innovation precedes change

Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena WnukReviewers: Karla Avanço, Françoise Gouzi According to Joseph Schumpeter, innovation is more than just a buzzword—it’s the tangible realization of ideas that leads to fresh or enhanced products, services, and processes. But innovation isn’t a solitary endeavour. It begins with the creators themselves, who forge ahead with their vision. Only afterwards … Continue reading When innovation precedes change

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Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication 

Author: Magdalena WnukReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger Small, independent projects, tools or services deal with sustainability challenges different from those faced by large research infrastructures. What they lack is a stable, relatively modest funding, that would be sufficient to hire someone who will responsibly maintain and update the output (tool or service), as well as … Continue reading Output maintenance as a challenge for innovative scholarly communication 

Magdalena Wnuk Innovation Lab case study, Observatory

DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model 

Author: Françoise GouziReviewers: Elena Giglia, Sy Holsinger, Tomasz Umerle The Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH-EU) is building an overlay journal, and has chosen Episciences platform for this project (application currently in progress). Episciences is a French public publishing platform provided by one of DARIAH’s French partner institutions, the Centre for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD). It will help … Continue reading DARIAH overlay journal as an alternative and transparent publishing model 

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How to evaluate innovation in the humanities? 

Authors: Maciej Maryl, Magdalena Wnuk The OPERAS’ Lab Observatory sheds light on the innovative technological projects aimed at communicating research results in an untraditional way. The discussion over the needs of such projects is both interesting and inspiring, particularly the requirement of evaluation criteria. The ALLEA report on digital scholarly outputs gives us some useful … Continue reading How to evaluate innovation in the humanities? 

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Cool tools for open access books

Authors: Ronald SnijderReviewers: Françoise Gouzi, Sy Holsinger As you may know, the OAPEN Foundation manages two platforms to distribute open access books and chapters: the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Both platforms have thrived for over a decade, experiencing substantial growth in their respective collections. As of November 2023, the collection of … Continue reading Cool tools for open access books

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Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Authors: Kaan Yildirim, Kelly AchenbachReviewers: Karla Avanço, Alessia Smaniotto On October 19-21, 2023, in Paris, 200+ participants/attendees will gather to discuss Citizen Science and Participatory Research, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities and participatory approaches to research funding, at the Connect.Collaborate.Create. conference. Participants from a variety of interconnected domains will meet there—funders, policy … Continue reading Highlighting the Transformative Power of Citizen Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities