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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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DORA’s Responsible Research Assessment Guide

Across the research world, there is growing recognition that the way we evaluate research and researchers needs to change. Many current systems rely on narrow indicators – such as publication counts or journal impact factors – that don’t reflect the […]

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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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Evaluation of Research Organizations – Metodika 2025+ (cze)

The Research, Development and Innovation Counclil (RVVI) organized a workshop in collaboration with VŠCHT dedicated to the new methodology for evaluating research organizations. The goal of the meeting was to present changes in evaluation in the new Methodology 2025+ (Metodika […]

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New Research Act

The draft of a completely new research act (Act on Research, Development, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer – Zákon o výzkumu, vývoji, inovacích a transferu znalostí), which will replace the Act on Research and Development Support (Zákon o podpoře výzkumu a […]

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English version of Open Science Principles of the CAS

An English verion of Open Science Principles of the Czech Academy of Sciences has been published at the website of Czech Academy of Sciences. The Czech version of this text was approved in December 2024 and is available here. You […]

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Principles of open science at CAS

Council of the CAS approved an update of a set of recommendations in the field of open science for research-oriented departments of the CAS. The document “Principles of Open Science at the CAS” was prepared by the Commission for Scientific […]

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CoARA – Action plan od CAS regarding research assessment

Czech Academy of Sciences published CAORA Action Plan: Towards the advanced research assessment of the CAS institutes and their research teams. CAS joined the  Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) in 2022 by signing Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment (ARRA). […]

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Secondary Publication Right – ERA discussion

Earlier this summer, the European Commission (through its Directorate-General for Research and Innovation) published a study on possible future measures to improve access to research results. That is, access to publications, but also to scientific data and the possibilities for […]

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