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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 2h

#OpenScienceTraining #OPERASRI | The OPERAS training framework offers a structured methodology for designing, delivering and evaluating initiatives that are inclusive, scalable and aligned with Open Science principles.

Read it here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16970400

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 22h

Our #OPERASService Pathfinder is evolving, and we want your feedback. Are you an editor or an editorial manager? Your perspective is essential for us.

Join our consultation workshop! bit.ly/pathfinder-c...

#Pathfinder #EditorialServices

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 5d

🔹 "Supporting European capacities for SSH academic publishing and scholarly communication" summarises the role of OPERAS in the #OpenScholComm and #OS policy framework, its role in community-driven scholarly publishing, and its position within national contexts. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 5d

🔹 "Addressing disinformation challenges: a critical effort to support freedom, democracies and trust": a proactive approach to disinformation by promoting open access to high-quality, peer-reviewed academic content. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 5d

🔹 "Promoting balanced multilingualism in open science and scholarly communication". OPERAS advances the idea of “balanced multilingualism” in this policy brief, which seeks to challenge the hegemony of English without dismissing the value of a shared language. Read it here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 5d

🔹 "Ensuring Local Needs & Strengthening Distributed Infrastructures - OPERAS National Nodes": This policy brief highlights the importance of OPERAS’ National Nodes as a means to support open scholarly communication at both the country and European levels in the SSH. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 5d

Policy briefs are concise documents that present research and policy recommendations on complex issues. During the OPERAS-PLUS project, which concluded last August, OPERAS has published four community policy briefs. Each of them approaches a highly strategic subject for the community:

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 6d

By aligning efforts and connecting infrastructures, OPERAS helps create an open, inclusive, and connected research ecosystem — one that matches the transnational and interdisciplinary nature of today’s research in the SSH. Do you want to learn more about this? Visit our website: operas-eu.org

OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 6d

🔹 Collaborating seamlessly across borders, also via EU-funded projects, to promote common standards and interoperability.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #ResearchInfrastructures #SSH #OPERAS

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 6d

At OPERAS, we are working to overcome this by:
🔹 Building a sustainable infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
🔹 Connecting national nodes and services into a coherent European network.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 6d

Fragmentation across national and European-wide research systems and infrastructures remains one of the biggest barriers to truly open, collaborative research in Europe. 🌍 That's why the @maxweberstiftung.de joined OPERAS since its beginning as one of our core members.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 7d

The third day of the #CRAFTOA conference starts with presentations of the project’s sustainability plan, with a focus on its Key Exploitable Results!

You can also follow #day3 online! www.youtube.com/live/NEhu-C4...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 8d

Experts panel happening right now in the #CRAFTOA conference!

Follow online: www.youtube.com/live/LDuA6IB...

#DiamondOA

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CRAFT-OA project, aiming for Diamond Open Access @craft-oa.bsky.social · 8d

📣The Diamond Discovery Hub has officially launched during the final confernce in #Göttingen. @eudch.bsky.social Join the #DDH today : ddh.diamas.org/en
First photo by Martin Liebetruth.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 8d

The #CRAFT_OA2025 conference enters its second day today, featuring a livestream for those joining remotely. We’re pleased that @operaseu.bsky.social is part of it :-) Follow the livestream here: www.craft-oa.eu/craft-oa-con...

#OpenAccess #ScholComm #DiamondOA

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GRAPHIA @graphiaproject.bsky.social · 13d

This afternoon we got hands-on:
• Interactive demo + Q&A: Making knowledge graphs tangible
• Co-building the GRAPHIA ontology
• Exploring hybrid AI in semantic research & industry

Online participation is still open → graphia-ssh.eu/news-blog/in...

#GRAPHIA #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #SemanticWeb

Screenshot of the slide deck used in this presentation with what will the session entail.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 13d

The Innovation Prototyping Lab of @graphiaproject.bsky.social & @lumen-eu.bsky.social continues today. Curious to follow? You can still register and join live here: graphia-ssh.eu/news-blog/in...

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EASSH @eassh.bsky.social · 19d

📢 New EASSH position paper: Society in #FP10 proposal is for #research on society

5 priorities:1️⃣Democracy,2️⃣Education & Skills,3️⃣Europe in 2040,4️⃣Culture & Knowledge,5️⃣Productive and Inclusive Societies.

📢We invite member & related organisations to endorse this position paper. eassh.eu/Position-Pap...

Cover: EASSH Position Paper, September 2025: Society in FP10 proposal is for research on society

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LUMEN @lumen-eu.bsky.social · 14d

The first Innovation Prototyping Lab of the GRAPHIA Project & LUMEN has just started at the Infobip campus in Zagreb. Organised by our partner Industry Commons Foundation, the IPL will unfold over the next three days to explore cross-project collaboration and innovative solutions for research.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 14d

Join online the Innovation Prototyping Lab of @graphiaproject.bsky.social and @lumen-eu.bsky.social projects!

graphia-ssh.eu/news-blog/in...

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 16d

Imagine a world where you can directly contribute to building a platform that meets your research needs. This is a reality right now with the LUMEN Co-Design workshops series!

Express your interest: https://lumenproject.eu/learn-connect-innovate-co-designing-workshop-serie

#LUMEN #EOSC

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 20d

IMAGE CREDITS: Used under CC BY license from Neylon, C, et al. “More readers in more places: the benefits of open access for scholarly books”. Insights: The UKSG Journal, vol. 34, no. 1, 2021, p. 27.

OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 20d

Discover how the scholarly community must act to prevent this valuable infrastructure from fragmenting.

Read the article here:

Guest Post - Building Sustainable Infrastructure for OA Book Metrics - The Scholarly Kitchen

Today’s guest author offers a progress report on recent efforts to build open-source technology for open access book metrics.

scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 20d

OPERAS Metrics, together with the OAEBUDT federated data space and BAD’s intuite dashboards, are examples of projects that have successfully created working technical solutions to deal with this challenge.

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OPERAS Research Infrastructure @operaseu.bsky.social · 20d

#OPERASMetrics #OABooks | This fresh article by Peter Potter discusses why without proper metrics we cannot demonstrate the true impact of open scholarship.

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