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CodeRefinery Research Software Tools Workshop

When: September 9–11, 11:00–15:30 CEST + every Wednesday from September 17 to October 22, 2025, 12:00–14:30 CEST Where: online Research software is often written on the fly – under pressure from grant deadlines, dissertations, or the need to “just automate […]

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Public hearing – Making Sense of Open Science

When: September 12, 2025, 9:00 – 18:00 Where: Rooms 205 and 206, main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Národní 1009/3, Praha 1 In Semptember, a one-day event Making Sense of Open Science Public Hearing on the Principles and […]

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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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