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We are pleased to announce the appointment of four new members to the FORCE11 Board of Directors, along with a new Vice President. Please welcome our new Vice President, Jennifer Miller, and our new board members: Jonathan Grunert, Eunice Mercado-Lara, Alex Mendon?a, and Bella Ratmelia. We extend our sincere thanks and appreciation to outgoing Vice President Osman Aldirdiri, and board members Simon Worthington and John Hammersley. Their contributions have been instrumental in navigating FORCE11 through the pandemic and its aftermath. ?? More info: https://lnkd.in/da_mBbDk

Course materials from the FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) 2024 are now publicly available through our Zenodo community repository! We invite you to explore these resources and make use of them to benefit your community. Check them out here: https://lnkd.in/gT6SDEDK #ScholarlyCommunication #KnowledgeSharing

Collaborative Metadata Enrichment Taskforce (COMET) has launched a?Community Call to Action?to transform how we enrich and maintain PID metadata.?Learn more about this FORCE11 Working Group's efforts at their webinar next Wednesday - March 5 at 3pm UTC. Register at https://lnkd.in/eZ5MhUVf

Science is Under Siege: The Open Science Community Must Act and Lead by Example. Worldwide, science is under attack by anti-scientific movements. This new post on Upstream is a call for the open science community to lead by example in defending science: https://lnkd.in/ggiMtv6d

Just published today - our summary of the COMET Governance Listening Sessions held in January, including the read-ahead product development outline and a summary of the group's questions and comments. If you have any additional thoughts on this, please comment below or send your ideas to [email protected] Conveners included Adam Buttrick, John Chodacki, Maria Praetzellis, Juan Pablo Alperin and FORCE11 https://lnkd.in/evmjK5bs

?? Did you know it's Love Data Week? This year's theme — "Whose Data Is It, Anyway?" — encourages conversations about the importance of data transparency. One of the best ways to ensure the data associated with the articles you publish is transparent is by promoting the FAIR Data Principles from the GO FAIR initiative, which calls for academic data to be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. This #JournalTipsTuesday, we're covering steps to get started. ?? Champion data sharing Start by educating authors about the benefits of FAIR data and encourage them to deposit their data into repositories by: ?? Directing them to information on the technical aspects of data-citation software and good data-management practices, such as the Make Data Count community ?? Pointing them toward resources for picking appropriate repositories, such as fairsharing.org and re3data.org ?? Encouraging them to use persistent identifiers, including signing up for ORCID and assigning DOIs to the data they archive ?? Focusing on streamlining your processes and guidelines around data sharing to improve uptake ?? Get involved in the conversation Academic journal editors and publishers can help move the FAIR Principles from recommendations to reality by proactively contributing to the FAIR community and encouraging authors to join. Ways you can do this include: ?? Engage in open-forum discussions on platforms such as FAIRpoints ?? Make connections with like-minded stakeholders by engaging with community-driven initiatives in the field, such as FORCE11 and the Center for Open Science ?? Subscribe to the social media channels and newsletters of organizations focusing on the specific technical aspects of FAIRification, such as the Research Data Alliance (RDA) ?? Strive to adhere to the FAIR principles in all aspects of your organization's activities, including internal and peer review processes ?? Actively seek feedback from your authors on how to improve your practices around data sharing and FAIRification ?? Explore the power of incentives Finally, consider ways to highlight your organization's overall progress toward FAIRification to keep up momentum and morale among your journal team and authors. Adopting the Open Science Badge system for authors from the Center for Open Science is one such approach. The badges flag when the data accompanying a scholarly article are openly available and certify data accessibility and durability. Implementing OS Badges has been shown to increase data sharing. We hope you found this roundup helpful! Do you have additional tips to share? Add them to the comments.?? #fairdata #opendata #scholarlypublishing #LoveData25

?? FORCE11 Scholarly Communication Institute (FSCI) 2025 Call for Courses - Submission deadline has been extended to Friday, February 7th 2025! ?? The theme of this year's FSCI is "Working towards Open Scholarship in the Age of Intelligent Automation". Courses will be held virtually online starting on Monday, July 21st?through Friday, July 25th, 2025. If you are a member of FORCE11, or otherwise involved in the Scholarly Communication landscape, you likely have research experience or skills in research communication methods, open research practices, and/or the expansion of research dissemination. Help your community of practice by sharing what you’ve learned, via teaching a FSCI course! The global community of FSCI attendees consists of #researchers, #librarians, administrators, #publishers, and support staff across the research communication lifecycle. Join our group of volunteer instructors and learners at the immersive, community-led FSCI, which is welcome to all and presented by the FORCE11 community in collaboration with the UCLA Library Click here for more details and to submit your course proposal: https://lnkd.in/gG_gmeem #OpenScholarship #ScholarlyCommunication

?? Love #dogs? Love science? FORCE11's Canine Community Science Working Group is fostering scientific literacy and curiosity through a subject that 45% of households can meaningfully relate to (and actively participate in the study of) without having an extensive scientific background … Dogs! The group aims to build a canine science community platform and resource hub aimed to foster collaborations between scientists, field experts, and enthusiasts. While focused on canine science, the working group's outputs will serve as a model for supporting other socially resonant (and controversial) topics. Everyone is welcome to join! Details here: https://lnkd.in/g2FCHe_H #CommunityScience #ResearchCollaboration #ScientificLiteracy

?? Rebuilding Research Communities in Post-Conflict Regions The ReSCORE Working Group at FORCE11 is creating pathways for sustainable research infrastructure and enhancing scholarly communication in regions recovering from conflict. Starting with Somalia as a pilot case, ReSCORE will develop scalable frameworks to rebuild scholarly communication and support research infrastructure. The group focuses on enabling knowledge sharing and empowering local research communities, creating models that can be adapted for other post-conflict regions. Join us in making scholarly communication infrastructure sustainable everywhere:? https://lnkd.in/gdBUby29 #GlobalResearch #Academia #ResearchEquity #KnowledgeSharing #ScholarlyComm

We're delighted that COMET is now an official FORCE11 Working Group.?Thank you FORCE11 for your support as the Taskforce continues its discussions and develops ideas. Find out more about the Working Group on the COMET blog here: https://lnkd.in/eYaAGDHT or the FORCE11 site here: https://lnkd.in/eDwC3gac.