Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

See the org's progress report on its first year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

Today is the 24th birthday of the Budapest Open Access Initiative.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read/

Best known for catalyzing the #OpenAccess movement in 2002, the BOAI has been continuously active and formed a nonprofit organization just last year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-transitioning-to-organization-to-support-the-development-of-equitable-open-access/

See the org's progress report on its first year.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/news/boai-celebrates-anniversary-and-reflects-on-progress-of-first-year-as-an-organization/

The latest version of the BOAI recommendations is its 20th anniversary statement.
https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/boai20/

In contrast to the earlier BOAI statements, which made many recommendations, the 20th anniversary statement deliberately focuses on a small number of top priorities:

1. Adopting #OpenInfrastructure
2. Reforming #ResearchAssessment
3. Moving away from #APCs
4. Moving away from #ReadAndPublish agreements.

I'm proud of my contributions to #BOAI (2002), #BOAI10 (2012), and #BOAI20 (2022), and honored to serve on the org steering committee.

Happy #ValentinesDay to all who work for #OpenAccess worldwide.

#Metadata mutability may sound harmless, but it can distort research metrics and misattribute credit.
To ensure fair and responsible #ResearchAssessment in #OpenScience, freezing & versioning metadata is critical.
Here, #OpenAIREGraph CTO @paolomanghi breaks down both the risks and possible solutions.
🔗 Read the article: https://shorturl.at/h93pq
#FAIR #OpenData #OpenAccess #ScholarlyKnowledgeGraph

#Metadata mutability may sound harmless, but it can distort research metrics and misattribute credit.
To ensure fair and responsible #ResearchAssessment in #OpenScience, freezing & versioning metadata is critical.
Here, #OpenAIREGraph CTO @paolomanghi breaks down both the risks and possible solutions.
🔗 Read the article: https://shorturl.at/h93pq
#FAIR #OpenData #OpenAccess #ScholarlyKnowledgeGraph

Greece is taking an important step toward transparent and evidence-based research monitoring. 🇬🇷

ABACUS, a new national service developed by HEAL-Link in collaboration with OpenAIRE, will offer a coherent, open view of Greek scholarly research, aligned with European Open Science standards and EOSC.

👉 Read the article: https://www.openaire.eu/abacus-a-new-national-service-for-monitoring-greek-research-and-open-science

#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #EOSC #OpenAIRE

📚 The GraspOS Course: Rethinking Research Assessment is now live on the OpenPlato platform, offering a quick, practical and approachable way to explore the tools and ideas driving today’s transformation in research evaluation.

➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTHDf3fV
➡️ Access the course: https://lnkd.in/dP-SDesm

@OpenAIRE
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #GraspOS

📘 New Publication: Promising stories from the GraspOS Pilot studies

In this booklet, we present the implementation pathways and outcomes of the nine GraspOS Pilot studies, aimed at advancing Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) and strengthening Open Science practices across the European Research Area.

In the past three years, the GraspOS Pilots co-designed, validated, and evaluated Open Science-aware indicators, tools, and services for RRA across three assessment contexts:
* Funding agencies and national stakeholders using infrastructure to support funding evaluation processes.
* Universities, including departments and research groups, interested in recruitment and assessment.
* Thematic disciplines that establish domain-specific assessment criteria aligned with disciplinary needs.
The booklet offers concise narratives highlighting the activities, results, and insights from each Pilot.

🔗 Learn more and access the full booklet here: https://graspos.eu/promising-stories-from-the-graspos-pilot-studies

@OpenAIRE @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @inria @cwts @BarcelonaDORI @DORAssessment
@CoARAssessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #ReformingRA #CoARA #BarcelonaDORI #DORA

📚 The GraspOS Course: Rethinking Research Assessment is now live on the OpenPlato platform, offering a quick, practical and approachable way to explore the tools and ideas driving today’s transformation in research evaluation.

➡️ Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dTHDf3fV
➡️ Access the course: https://lnkd.in/dP-SDesm

@OpenAIRE
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #GraspOS

📘 New Publication: Promising stories from the GraspOS Pilot studies

In this booklet, we present the implementation pathways and outcomes of the nine GraspOS Pilot studies, aimed at advancing Responsible Research Assessment (RRA) and strengthening Open Science practices across the European Research Area.

In the past three years, the GraspOS Pilots co-designed, validated, and evaluated Open Science-aware indicators, tools, and services for RRA across three assessment contexts:
* Funding agencies and national stakeholders using infrastructure to support funding evaluation processes.
* Universities, including departments and research groups, interested in recruitment and assessment.
* Thematic disciplines that establish domain-specific assessment criteria aligned with disciplinary needs.
The booklet offers concise narratives highlighting the activities, results, and insights from each Pilot.

🔗 Learn more and access the full booklet here: https://graspos.eu/promising-stories-from-the-graspos-pilot-studies

@OpenAIRE @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @inria @cwts @BarcelonaDORI @DORAssessment
@CoARAssessment
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #ReformingRA #CoARA #BarcelonaDORI #DORA

Trustworthy #research information doesn’t emerge by chance, it must be designed into our infrastructures & workflows.
At #euroCRIS2025 Angeliki Tzouganatou presented the talk "Trust by Design", where she laid out how #OpenInfrastructures support responsible assessment through #transparency, #interoperability, & #community governance.

🔗Get more insights from the event https://tinyurl.com/45xw36sx

#ResearchAssessment #CRISSystems #CRIS #CoARA

Upcoming Event

This Monday, 8:00–9:00 CET, OpenAIRE CEO Natalia Manola joins a high-level panel at the IAP Triennial Conference to discuss how reforming research assessment can drive trust, quality & meaningful impact in science.

Co-organised by @CoARAssessment @ALLEA & GYA.

🔗 Details: https://www.openaire.eu/community/events/eventdetail/1536/from-metrics-to-meaning-how-reforming-research-assessment-drives-innovation-impact-and-trust-in-science

🔗 Conference: https://asrt-iap.eg.net/

#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #CoARA #SciencePolicy #IAP2025

⏰ Starting today at 11.00 CET: don't miss our last GraspOS webinar on GoTriple's developments: Knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment

The GoTriple platform is adding new discovery and enrichment features under European projects LUMEN and GRAPHIA. This webinar will show how these technical developments support the responsible use of quantitative metrics in research assessment, and how knowledge graphs can offer significant insights in the SSH domain.

➡️ Learn more: https://graspos.eu/training-material
➡️ Registration is still open: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/pRN6fMBOTpKaqi7xpvS0AA#/registration

@OpenAIRE @operaseu
#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #GoTriple #LUMEN #GRAPHIA

This is a nice explainer video that shows the major problems of the h-index (and why you should not use it for #ResearchAssessment) https://sciences.social/@mikki/115614228347395111

Check your mail! In the November #newsletter, find out about:

💫 Highlights from the #GraspOS Final Conference “Opening Research Assessment”, with slides available in our dedicated Zenodo collection https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records

💎 SCOPE+i Resources for RRA are now available, browse through the set of tools designed to support all kinds of research assessment processes for research organisations

💎 Next webinar on GoTriple developments, knowledge graphs and responsible metrics for SSH assessment: join us online on 3rd December at 11:00 CET

…and more news and events from the Open Science and RRA community ➡️ graspos.eu/newsletters

#OpenScience #ResearchAssessment #ReformingRA #OpeningRA @cwts @vergoulis @OpenAIRE @opencitations

This is a nice explainer video that shows the major problems of the h-index (and why you should not use it for #ResearchAssessment) https://sciences.social/@mikki/115614228347395111

✨ Thank you for joining us in Pisa!
The GraspOS Final Conference has officially wrapped up, and we’re grateful to everyone who contributed to two days of inspiring discussions on Opening Research Assessment.

Since the beginning of the project in 2023, GraspOS has worked to support policy reforms and build the foundations for a Responsible Research Assessment system that is aligned with Open Science. Over the two days of the Conference, discussions featured presentations of GraspOS results, invited talks, and expert panels covering critical areas such as open infrastructures for RRA, transparency and inclusivity of assessment processes, and the recognition of contributions to Open Science.

The slides from the presentations will soon be made available in our dedicated Zenodo Community: "Opening Research Assessment: GraspOS Final Conference Open Collection" https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records

In the meantime, you can take a look at the highlights from the event: https://graspos.eu/highlights-from-the-graspos-final-conference-opening-research-assessment

@cwts @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment @OpenAIRE @EUCommission
@vergoulis @LudoWaltman @inria @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @euroCRIS
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #OpeningRA #GraspOS

✨ Thank you for joining us in Pisa!
The GraspOS Final Conference has officially wrapped up, and we’re grateful to everyone who contributed to two days of inspiring discussions on Opening Research Assessment.

Since the beginning of the project in 2023, GraspOS has worked to support policy reforms and build the foundations for a Responsible Research Assessment system that is aligned with Open Science. Over the two days of the Conference, discussions featured presentations of GraspOS results, invited talks, and expert panels covering critical areas such as open infrastructures for RRA, transparency and inclusivity of assessment processes, and the recognition of contributions to Open Science.

The slides from the presentations will soon be made available in our dedicated Zenodo Community: "Opening Research Assessment: GraspOS Final Conference Open Collection" https://zenodo.org/communities/graspos-finalconference/records

In the meantime, you can take a look at the highlights from the event: https://graspos.eu/highlights-from-the-graspos-final-conference-opening-research-assessment

@cwts @DORAssessment @CoARAssessment @OpenAIRE @EUCommission
@vergoulis @LudoWaltman @inria @opencitations @utrechtuniversity @euroCRIS
#ResearchAssessment #OpenScience #OpeningRA #GraspOS