The #PIDtoPortal project has launched! 🎉
We’re connecting the dots from persistent identifiers to the Netherlands Research Portal — strengthening the Dutch open research info ecosystem.
Serving two key groups:
🔹 #BarcelonaDeclaration signatories (monitoring)
🔹 #NL Research Portal metadata suppliers community (portal governance)
Read more on SURF Communities: https://communities.surf.nl/en/open-research-information/article/from-pid-to-portal-strengthening-the-open-research-information
#openscience #ORI #OpenResearch #Metadata #digitalcommons

🧩 Two new sessions are now live on the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel: looking at how open research infrastructures are sustained, and how different actors across the ecosystem contribute to that.

How can governance, community and institutional support work together to sustain open research infrastructures?
🔽
#OpenInfrastructure #OpenResearch #BarcelonaDeclaration

🧩 Two new sessions are now live on the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel: looking at how open research infrastructures are sustained, and how different actors across the ecosystem contribute to that.

How can governance, community and institutional support work together to sustain open research infrastructures?
🔽
#OpenInfrastructure #OpenResearch #BarcelonaDeclaration

#Webinar
📍 #OpenResearch Information in Action. Institutional Journeys Toward Open Systems
📅 Thu 4 Dec 2025
🕒 15:00–16:30 CET
🌐 Online: open to everyone
🤝 Organized by: Working Group 4 Barcelona Declaration + Helmholtz Open Science Office

Speakers will explain why they signed the #BarcelonaDeclaration; how they use or are moving to #open, non-proprietary systems; the governance considerations; challenges & benefits
The University of Milan will also be there!

🔗 https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20251113_wg4_helmholtz_webinar

@scienze

The University of Utrecht is canceling the #WebOfScience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the #BarcelonaDeclaration in 2024 to this effect. The use of Journal Impact Factors [#JIFs] is also not in line with our vision of Open Science…With the funds freed up by not renewing the licence, we will continue to invest in open source research and infrastructure."

#Webinar
📍 #OpenResearch Information in Action. Institutional Journeys Toward Open Systems
📅 Thu 4 Dec 2025
🕒 15:00–16:30 CET
🌐 Online: open to everyone
🤝 Organized by: Working Group 4 Barcelona Declaration + Helmholtz Open Science Office

Speakers will explain why they signed the #BarcelonaDeclaration; how they use or are moving to #open, non-proprietary systems; the governance considerations; challenges & benefits
The University of Milan will also be there!

🔗 https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20251113_wg4_helmholtz_webinar

@scienze

The #PIDtoPortal project has launched! 🎉
We’re connecting the dots from persistent identifiers to the Netherlands Research Portal — strengthening the Dutch open research info ecosystem.
Serving two key groups:
🔹 #BarcelonaDeclaration signatories (monitoring)
🔹 #NL Research Portal metadata suppliers community (portal governance)
Read more on SURF Communities: https://communities.surf.nl/en/open-research-information/article/from-pid-to-portal-strengthening-the-open-research-information
#openscience #ORI #OpenResearch #Metadata #digitalcommons

Commitments turning into action

@utrechtuniversity will discontinue its Web of Science subscription on 1 January 2026, in line with the Barcelona Declaration and its open science strategy.

More: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

#OpenResearchInformation#OpenScience#BarcelonaDeclaration#UtrechtUniversity

Commitments turning into action

@utrechtuniversity will discontinue its Web of Science subscription on 1 January 2026, in line with the Barcelona Declaration and its open science strategy.

More: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

#OpenResearchInformation#OpenScience#BarcelonaDeclaration#UtrechtUniversity

The University of Utrecht is canceling the #WebOfScience and offering training sessions on #OpenAlex.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/access-to-web-of-science-will-end-on-1-january-2026

"Discontinuing Web of Science is a logical step that fits in with the UU vision on #OpenScience. Closed commercial databases, such as Web of Science, are not in line with our desire to work with open research information as much as possible. The UU signed the #BarcelonaDeclaration in 2024 to this effect. The use of Journal Impact Factors [#JIFs] is also not in line with our vision of Open Science…With the funds freed up by not renewing the licence, we will continue to invest in open source research and infrastructure."

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration

We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.

Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 🤝

Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/

#OpenResearchInformation#OpenScience#BarcelonaDeclaration

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration

We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.

Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 🤝

Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/

#OpenResearchInformation#OpenScience#BarcelonaDeclaration

For the publication metadata nerds: I tried to create clarity (ahum) by visualising the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y9KcASM3wTkmPnKcNNUBQy9o6AdwH1a90sir4tnEdgA/edit?slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_0#slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_0

#metadata#PID #publishing #repository #barcelonadeclaration#crossref @crossref @OpenAlex

For the publication metadata nerds: I tried to create clarity (ahum) by visualising the generation of various metadata and their flow through the scholarly publishing system. The link goes to the online version that is fully animated, and has additional versions. Wonder if you think this is useful.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y9KcASM3wTkmPnKcNNUBQy9o6AdwH1a90sir4tnEdgA/edit?slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_0#slide=id.g361f6de3c85_0_0

#metadata#PID #publishing #repository #barcelonadeclaration#crossref @crossref @OpenAlex

🤝 Welcome Wellcome!

Wellcome Trust is the first UK funder to sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, strengthening our community’s shared commitment to making research information open, reliable, and reusable.

Funders play a pivotal role in how research information is recorded, shared, and reused.
🔗 https://barcelona-declaration.org/signatories

#OpenResearchInfo#BarcelonaDeclaration#OpenScience#WellcomeTrust#OpenMetadata

🤝 Welcome Wellcome!

Wellcome Trust is the first UK funder to sign the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, strengthening our community’s shared commitment to making research information open, reliable, and reusable.

Funders play a pivotal role in how research information is recorded, shared, and reused.
🔗 https://barcelona-declaration.org/signatories

#OpenResearchInfo#BarcelonaDeclaration#OpenScience#WellcomeTrust#OpenMetadata