🌍 Under the theme “Who Owns Our Knowledge?” for Open Access Week 2025 🔓, we’re spotlighting two initiatives reshaping how knowledge is shared and evaluated: CoARA and OpenAlex.

🧭 CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment): A global movement that promotes fairer research evaluation by recognizing diverse contributions and focusing on qualitative assessment over irresponsible use of metrics. In line with these principles, the Research Quality Evaluation (RESQUE) framework (https://www.resque.info/) offers practical tools and indicators for assessing research quality responsibly. It emphasizes the use of indicators for rigorous and reproducible science and offers user-friendly tools that enhance hiring and tenure decision-making processes. One of the coordinators of the RESQUE framework is our managing director, Felix Schönbrodt ( @nicebread)!

🔎 OpenAlex: An open, comprehensive index of the world’s research. It works by providing a database of research outputs which includes information like authors, affiliations, and citations, without paywalls. Based on OpenAlex, the LMU Open Science Center creates a bibliography of open science work from our members and maps the network of connections across our Open Science community: https://www.resources.osc.lmu.de/bibliography/.

By embracing initiatives like CoARA and OpenAlex, we move closer to a research culture where openness, equity, and integrity define how knowledge is created and shared. 💡

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