Slides – Connecting the actors

On November 21st we welcomed over 70 participants to the Open Science conference: “Connecting the actors”.

You can find the presentations here:

Pitches: Best practices in Open Access training
UAntwerp: YUFE open science label  Martijn Van Roie
VUB: Tools for supporting the researcherLucy Amez
ULB: Organizing webinars for researchers to share experienceFrançoise Vandooren
UGent: Community of Practice for Training Coordinators: an informal network to share training experiences
Join the Community of practice: www.openaire.eu/cop-training 		Emilie Hermans
UHasselt: Support for researchers at UHasseltEline Schoeters
ULiège: ORBi update: improving the publication repositoryPascale Renders
KU Leuven: Open Access support at KU LeuvenHanne Heirman

How to Establish a network of Data AmbassadorsJudith Biernaux (ULiège)
Sarah Zahreddine (ULB) Céline Thillou (UMons)
FRDN: mutual learning in a network of data stewardsJoke Meeus (FWO), Tessa Acar (FWO)
Roundtable – Working together to create Open Data solutions
KU Leuven RDR: implementation of an institutional research data repository to enable FAIR data publicationDieuwertje Bloemen (KULeuven)
M-QTOS : A platform for harvesting research metadata from open data repositories of French-speaking institutions.Yves Deville (UCLouvain)
How do you maximize curation benefits if your institution doesn’t have its own institutional repository?Kevin Leonard, Evelien Dhollander (UGent)
Test the Open Access Game:

– Information on Openscientometer: gameplay, moderation, reuse and remix
– Information, tutorial and instructions on the Open Access board game
– More information on the French version of the Open Access board game: Jeu Libérez la science! Version belge		Christophe Dony

Rudi Baccarne and Martijn van Roie

Françoise Vandooren

Open Science : connecting the actors!

Monday November 21, 2022

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Open Access Belgium would like to invite you to join the “Open Science: connecting the actors” event on the 21st of November to share best practices, foster community, and encourage knowledge-sharing on Open Science. The conference is free of charge and open to anyone interested in Open Science, training, networking, and Open Data solutions.

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Slides and recordings – Open Science webinars – free and FAIR Open Access

In the context of the International Open Access Week (Oct. 25-31, 2021), Open Access Belgium organized two webinars, one on Open access free alternatives for Researchers and one themed around FAIR open access as a sustainable alternative to scholarly communication and Publisher negotiations.

You can find recordings and slides of this webinar here.

26th October: Open access free alternatives for Researchers

An introduction to Open Research Europe – a researcher perspective – Daniel Spichtinger (University of Vienna)

Peer community in – Jean-François Flot (ULB)Download

Slides – Copyright and right retention strategy for researchers – Stephen Eglen (Cambridge University)

Slides – Where and how to deposit for Belspo financed researchers – SODHA+ and Orfeo – Eric Laureys (BELSPO) & Benjamin Peuch (National Archives of Belgium)Download

28th October: FAIR open access as a sustainable alternative to scholarly communication / A closer look at Publisher negotiations

Open Science webinars – free and FAIR Open Access

Let’s celebrate International Open Access Week together. Join us in the yearly Open Access week by attending one of our webinars.

26th October – Free open access

Researchers and research audiences alike are considering the challenges and opportunities of open access publishing. To this end we like present free, sustainable and open alternatives to the traditional publishing route. This webinar is aimed at researchers and focuses on different possibilities to open up scholarly publishing at no costs for researchers without violating copyright.

Find out how to:

  • negotiate your rights as an author with publishers
  • engage with the ethics of academic publishing
  • find and use alternatives to paid open access publishing
  • use repositories as digital platforms for free, immediate and permanent access to research.

26th October, 12 am to 1 pm: Open access free alternatives for Researchers

  • 12 am – 12:15 am | An introduction to Open Research Europe – a researcher perspective – Daniel Spichtinger (University of Vienna)
  • 12:15 am – 12:30 am | PCI, Peer community in – Jean-François Flot (ULB)
  • 12:30 am – 12:45 am | Copyright and right retention strategy for researchers – Stephen Eglen (Cambridge University)
  • 12:45 am – 1 pm | Where and how to deposit for Belspo financed researchers – SODHA+ and Orfeo – Eric Laureys (BELSPO) & Benjamin Peuch (National Archives of Belgium)
  • 1 pm – 1:15 pm | Questions and Answers

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28th October – FAIR open access as a sustainable alternative to scholarly communication / A closer look at Publisher negotiations

The second webinar is aimed at open science support staff and consists of two parts: the first part focuses on FAIR open access, the second part will focus on the possibilities of big deals in the transition to open access publishing.

Join the discussion on:

  • The current state and evolution of Diamond Open Access journals
  • How to return control of the publication process to the scholarly community
  • What the Rights retention strategy entails and how libraries can help
  • The position of big deal negotiations towards the transition to Open Access

28th October, 2 pm to 5 pm: FAIR open access for Support staff

  • 2 pm – 2:20 pm | Pre-recorded session: Open Access Diamond Journals Study: Exploring collaborative community-driven publishing models for Open Access – Jeroen Bosman (Utrecht University) & Bianca Kramer (Utrecht University)
  • 2:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Flipping journal to FAIR Open Access – the example of Algebraic Combinatorics – Hendrik Van Maldeghem (Ghent University)
  • 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm | Copyright and Rights retention strategy for libraries – Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S) & Sally Rumsey (Jisc)
  • 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm |Questions and Answers
  • 3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | Break
  • 3:30 pm – 5 pm | University of California update on Publisher negotiations and communication with researchers – Jeff MacKie-Mason ( UC Berkeley) & Ellen Finnie (University of California)
  • 5 pm – 5:15 pm | Questions and Answers

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Programme may be subject to change.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email. The day of the webinar and an hour before, a reminder email will be sent to you with the link to the webinar. You can register for one or both webinars here.

The webinars will be recorded and posted on the Openaccess.be so you can consult them later as well.

Webinar – The path from OpenAIRE to EOSC in Belgium

OpenAIRE has established itself as a key infrastructure for open scholarly output and Open Science services and support. In this webinar we will look at the Belgium context as OpenAIRE moves from a project to a legal entity. As Belgium was at the forefront  of the development of the OpenAIRE project, we will look at the history and the future of the project, some of its most used services and to the future of Open Science with the Flemish Open Science Board and the dedicated Open Science webpage for Belgium openaccess.be.

The webinar will take place at the 10the of February at 10.00 CET and will last about 1,5 hour.

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Belnet appointed as a mandated organisation of the EOSC Association

The Belgian national research and education network facilitates open science in Belgium and in Europe.

Last month, Belnet, the Belgian research and education network, was appointed as the mandated organisation of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Association for Belgium. The aim of EOSC is to create a new European web of data as a means of stimulating interdisciplinary research and thereby boosting science and the economy. 

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WEBINAR: EOSC-Pillar RDM Training and Support Catalogue

The EOSC-Pillar project is building a catalogue of training and support material for FAIR data stewardship. The catalogue includes training materials as well as day-to-day, operational and readily available resources that can be used by data stewards to support researchers.

This webinar will present the catalogue to the evolving RDM support community in Belgium and to hear directly from its potential users. It will introduce the EOSC-Pillar project and contextualise the Training and support catalogue within the wider EOSC ecosystem. Throughout the session, participation is encouraged and feedback on different aspects of the catalogue is welcomed. Join us to move the catalogue forward!

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Who should attend
  • Belgian data steward community
  • Data stewards from the EOSC-Pillar countries
  • People interested in training and support resources for Research Data Management
Preliminary agenda:
  • Introduction to EOSC & EOSC-Pillar – Inge Van Nieuwerburgh, Coordinator scholarly communication (Ghent University)
  • EOSC-Pillar Training and Support catalogue – Paula Oset, Data Steward (Ghent University)
  • Feedback session
Register here – Discover the EOSC-Pillar Training and Support Catalogue

Slides and recordings – Open Science Webinar with top UHasselt COVID-19 researchers!

In the context of the International Open Access Week (Oct. 19-25, 2020), Hasselt University Library organized an online webinar, where Niel Hens, Geert Molenberghs, Liesbet Peeters, Thomas Neyens and Jan Aerts gave  a talk on the role of open data in COVID-19 research.

You can find recordings and slides of this webinar here.

Recordings are available at drive.google.com/file/d/19NFA_SbOloYMFAxCt-Oy0d5nnSscJY7h/view

Geert Molenberghs (professor of Biostatistics at UHasselt and KU Leuven)

Slides – Open Data and COVID-19 mortalityDownload

Thomas Neyens (assistant professor in Biostatistics at UHasselt and KU Leuven)

Slides – Spatial AggregationDownload

Liesbet M. Peeters (assistant professor in Biomedical Data Science at UHasselt)

Slides – COVID-19 and MS Download

Niel Hens (Professor of biostatistics at Hasselt University and the University of Antwerp)

Slides – The need for, and value of, using and sharing data within the COVID-19 crisisDownload

Jan Aerts (professor Visual Analytics at UHasselt)

Slides – Open Science: Are We There Yet?Download

Open Science Webinars recordings – Skills and training

During Open Access Week, Open Science staff from Belgian universities, teamed up to organize a series of 4 webinars aimed at research support staff to provide information on Open Science skills and offer the opportunity to discuss approached to open science literacy and training.

Media content – Slides and recordings

Tuesday October 20, 10.30-11.30 | Skills development for Open Science

Slides – EOSC Skills and training working group – Sadia Vancauwenbergh (EOSC, UHasselt)Download
Slides – EOSC-Pillar Training and Support catalogue– Paula Oset Garcia (UGent)Download
Slides – Sharing Open Data – Veerle Van den Eynden (KULeuven)Download

Tuesday October 20, 12.00-13.00  | Training for Data Management Planning

Slides – Being a DMP advisor – Dragana Petrovic (ULB)
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Slides – Ways to teach about DMP – Niek Van Wettere (VUB)
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Slides – DMP review Rubrics – Myriam Mertens (UGent)
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Thursday October 22, 10.00-11.30 | Open Science tools: demo and discussion

Because of the discussion part of this session and some of the ‘back-end’ information on the tools shown, this session was not recorded and not all slides are made available.

Slides – Unpaywall – Joke Claes (KULeuven)
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Slides – ‘Open Research Europe’ (ORE) platform – Michael Markie (F1000)
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Slides – OpenAIRE Provide dashboard – Emilie Hermans (UGent)
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Thursday October 22, 12.00-13.00  | Open Science accelerating? COVID 19 examples

Slides – COVID-19 Open Research Gateway – Gwen Franck (EIFL)
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Slides – Accelerate access to research findings and data relevant to COVID-19 – David Carr (Wellcome Trust)
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Slides – Open Science accelerating during a pandemic – Bronwen Martin (University of Antwerp)
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Hasselt University Library presents: Open Science Webinar with our top UH COVID-19 researchers!

In the context of the International Open Access Week (Oct. 19-25, 2020), Hasselt University Library organizes an online webinar, where Niel Hens, Geert Molenberghs, Liesbet Peeters, Thomas Neyens and Jan Aerts will give a talk on the role of open data in COVID-19 research. The event will take place on October 23rd, from 9.30 until 11.00 a.m.

Anyone can attend the session although it is primarily intended for researchers, PhD students, postdocs and (junior) professors.

Register here: Registration Form COVID-19 UHasselt

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