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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Conference Czech Days for European Research (CZEDER)

When: 10 November 2025, 9:30 – 16:30 Where: Prague – Vienna House Andel’s Prague, Stroupežnického 21 The Technology Centre Prague and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports are organizing the Czech Days for European Research (CZEDER) conference, which will take […]

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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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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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FGU – job offer – Data Steward

Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences is looking for a candidate for the position of Data Steward. You can find more information here: Location: Prague, Czech Republic (European Union) Salary: 63 000 CZK/month (~2 500 Euro) + up to 5 weeks of […]

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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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ISMB/ECCB 2025 Conference

When: July 20 – 24, 2025 Where: Liverpool, UK & online From July 20 to 24, 2025, the international conference ISMB/ECCB 2025 (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the European Conference on Computational Biology) will bring together researchers working at […]

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CESSDA – Data Citation Guide

CESSDA has published a Data Citation Guide to support proper citation of datasets as independent scientific outputs. The Guide addresses a common problem in current research practice, where scientists often mention data in their work but tend to cite related […]

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