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Data Stewards Community Meeting

When: September 25, 2025, 9:30 – 17:30 Where: Balling Hall, National Library of Technology, Prague Registration is now open for the long-anticipated in-person meeting of the data stewards community! The event will take place on September 25, 2025, from 9:30 […]

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Webinar: Rethinking AI Regulation

When: July 17, 2025, 15:00 CEST Where: online The European debate on AI regulation has recently focused primarily on using copyright law as a tool to restrict the training of AI models. An upcoming online webinar titled “Wrong Question, Wrong […]

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The Open Science Cookbook

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has published The Open Science Cookbook (edited by Emily Bongiovanni, Melanie Gainey, Chasz Griego, and Lencia McKee), a comprehensive practical guide designed to help academic libraries develop and expand open science services. […]

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Presentation – UNESCO Diamond OA Consultation

When: 3 July, 16:00 – 17:30 Where: online (Zoom) – registration UNESCO invites participants to an online presentation of results from the Global UNESCO Consultation on Diamond Open Access. This event will showcase findings from a comprehensive survey that received […]

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Webinar recording: OJS a OMP na MUNI

A recording has been published from the webinar Open Journal Systems (OJS) and Open Monograph Press (OMP) at Masaryk University, which took place on May 28th as part of the EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) webinar series OJS: Best Practices […]

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Webinar: Make your research FAIRer (Quarto, GitHub, Zenodo)

When: July 8, 2025 Where: online On July 8, 2025, the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) will host a practical, one-day online course aimed at helping life science researchers make their work more FAIR – Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. […]

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Webinar: PIDs for Software

When: June 30, 2025, 13:00 – 15:30 CEST Where: online  As research increasingly relies on software, ensuring its long-term accessibility, transparency, and citation is essential. Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are key to making software findable, citable, and reusable – supporting the […]

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Webinar: Open Source Software and Open Science

When: June 24, 2025, 17:00 – 18:00 CEST Where: online Open Science and Open Source Software are not just parallel movements – they are closely connected, sharing the same values and practical foundations. On June 24, 2025, the ZBW – […]

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iRODS User Group Meeting 2025

When: June 17 – 20, 2025 Where: Durham, North Carolina, USA & online In today’s research landscape, where enormous and complex data sets are produced across disciplines, effective data management has become a critical challenge for scientists worldwide. The Integrated […]

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OS Workshop at MUNI

When: June 25, 2025, 9:00 – 17:00 Where: Komenského náměstí 2, Brno & online Masaryk University, in cooperation with the EOSC CZ Training Centre, is organizing a full-day workshop on June 25, 2025, focused on the practical use of EOSC […]

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