Speaker: Irene Barbers (Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich), Najko Jahn (University of Göttingen), Dr. Jochen Johannsen (RWTH Aachen University), Dr. Maxi Kindling (Open-Access-Büro Berlin)
Moderator: Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Helmholtz Open Science Office)

Target group: Alle interessierten Mitarbeitenden aus der Wissenschaft, die Argumente und Trends beim Open Access Monitoring kennenlernen wollen.

Content: Um die Entwicklung der Transformation zu Open Access zu bestimmen, werden oftmals Indikatoren wie Publikationszahlen oder Publikationskosten betrachtet. Offene Daten sind dafür ein zentraler Baustein. Mit OpenAlex und der flankierenden Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information ist die Open Access Community weltweit auf einem guten Weg, das Monitoring nicht nur kommerziellen Anbietern zu überlassen. Gleichzeitig stellen sich bei dem Monitoring neue Herausforderungen, wenn es zum Beispiel darum geht, weitergehende Prinzipien der offenen Wissenschaft z.B. im Bereich des wissenschaftsgeleiteten Open-Access-Publizierens in den Blick zu nehmen oder weitere Publikationsformate und -praktiken zu betrachten. Fragen die sich hier stellen, sind unter anderem:

• Wie können wir beispielsweise die wachsende Zahl von Community-Led-Initiativen und ihre Publikations- und Finanzierungsmodelle erfassen und dabei nicht nur den quantitativen Output von Journals und Artikels zählen?
• Wie können Einrichtungen ihre Bemühungen zum Aufbau offener Publikationsinfrastrukturen besser sichtbar machen?
• Wie kann die Umsetzung von Strategien nicht nur mit Blick auf das Ergebnis zu einem Zeitpunkt X, sondern mit Blick auf den Prozess sichtbar gemacht werden?
• Wie viel Einfluss hat das, was wir messen und bestimmen, auf den Weg, den wir bei der Open-Access-Transformation einschlagen?

Open Access Blog Berlin – Quo vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg 2024/25 – Die Veranstaltungsreihe geht in die vierte Runde

Speaker: Dr. Torsten Bronger (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: All those interested in data publication from the scientific community.

Content: Data publication has not yet become widespread in science. It creates additional work and its benefits are not immediately clear. We explain how data can be published with minimal effort and how to help your data achieve maximum impact.

Speaker: Ines Schmahl (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: Any interested employees from science and science management.

Content: This webinar presentation offers an introduction to the topic of research data management (RDM). It also provides an overview of the most important key concepts such as the data life cycle, FAIR principles, and data management plans. Forschungszentrum Jülich offers support to help researchers implement research data management in their working group or institute. A range of services and tools have been developed over the last few years. These will be presented in the second part of the presentation. In particular, the training programmes on offer will be discussed.

Speaker: Justin Finnerty (IAS-6), Sebastian Lehmann (IET-1), Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (ZB), Ines Schmahl (ZB)

Target group: Supervisors, head of research teams, doctoral researchers, senior researchers, and any other employees interested.

Content: In this workshop the concept of managing data with the so-called "Content Curators", developed by the institute INM-6 and adopted by the institute IET-1, is introduced. Their tasks include having an overview of projects, knowing best practices and accompanying on- and off-boarding. In this context, 4 curation levels of data are identified that need to be considered in sound data management. It ranges from data that are only relevant to the particular user to data that are part of scientific publications. The Institute’s publication process includes several measures and reviews. When employees are off-boarded, this ensures that their data - provided it is highly relevant - is archived appropriately.

Speaker: Arthur Höring and Stefanie Andres (both SciFlow)

Target group: Scientific employees, doctoral researchers, and other employees who are interested.Content: In this webinar, we will cover the following topics: An introduction to SciFlow and its writing process. Understanding templates and how to use them to benefit from automated formatting. Leveraging collaborative features for effective teamwork. An interactive Q&A session to address your questions.

Zoom – SciFlow – Learn how to use SciFlow Authoring – Make academic writing effortless and save time with automatic formatting

Speaker: Linda McGrath (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic.

Content: This introduction to open access (OA) will give you an overview over of OA, what kinds of OA there are, and what OA licenses exist. You will also learn how to find suitable OA journals for your papers and the pitfalls that should be avoided when looking for a publication outlet.

Speaker: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: This talk is intended for researchers who are curious but unsure about what open science is and why it matters, and who may also be interested but hesitant about adopting open science practices.

Content: When we ask people what open science is, we typically receive a broad variety of responses, ranging from “it’s about making sure people can read your papers for free (open access)” to “you have to make your data available (RDM)” to “that’s really complicated to describe”. The truth is that open science is all of these things and more, but it is not necessarily complicated. 

In this talk, we present a model that clearly and quickly explains the goals of the open science movement in contrast to the current scientific dissemination system. The model also describes concrete incentives for participation, ranging from knowledge permanence to skills and labour recognition.

Speaker: Toby Hodges (Director of Curriculum, The Carpentries), Claire Wyatt (Community Manager for Research Software Engineering, FZJ)

Target group: Anyone involved in research software engineering.

Content: The Carpentries is a global community teaching essential software and data skills to researchers. Our community of certified instructors teaches hundreds of workshops to thousands of learners all over the world every year, introducing them to foundational skills in research software engineering, such as programming and version control. In recent years, the community has also begun to develop and deliver lessons that build on these foundations, teaching more intermediate and advanced RSEng skills such as HPC, parallel programming, and containerized computing. In this seminar, I will talk about how The Carpentries can benefit RSEs and their local communities, and some of the ways in which you can get involved in the community.

22nd HiRSE Seminar

Referentinnen: Monika Hotze (ZB Forschungszentrum Jülich) , Susanne Ruffert (Universitätsbibliothek RWTH Aachen)

Zielgruppe: Forschende, Promovierende und fortgeschrittene Studierende, welche hilfreiche Tools und Services der Bibliotheken rund um den Forschungszyklus kennenlernen wollen.

Content: Gut geplant ist halb gewonnen! Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie effizient und erfolgreich wissenschaftliche Literatur recherchieren. In dieser Lecture geht es um die Vorbereitung der Recherche und warum das so wichtig ist.

JARA Coffee Lectures Online ist ein gemeinsames Angebot der Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen und der Zentralbibliothek des Forschungszentrums Jülich im Rahmen der Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA).

Der Zoom-Link wird Ihnen auf der Seite der RWTH bereitgestellt:
JARA Coffee Lectures online

Speaker: Dr. Lonni Besançon (Linköping University)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic, particularly researchers and scientific managers.

Content: Over the last decade, open science principles have been successfully advocated and have been slowly adopted in different research communities. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many publishers and researchers have sped up their adoption of open science practices, sometimes embracing them fully and sometimes partially or in a sub-optimal manner.

In this lecture, concerns will be expressed about the violation of some of the open science principles and its potential impact on the quality of research output. Evidence will be provided of the misuses of these principles at different stages of the scientific process. A wider adoption of open science practices will be called for in the hope that this will encourage a broader endorsement of open science principles and serve as a reminder that science should always be a rigorous process, reliable and transparent, especially in the context of a pandemic where research findings were translated into practice even more rapidly.

Jülich Open Science Speaker Series: Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Central Library (ZB) invites all scientists at Jülich, Helmholtz and our international guests to join the conversation on current developments in Open Science. Every two weeks, the series will invite a prominent member of the global community to discuss their efforts to advance the goals of open science. The series will use a hybrid format, where our speakers will be telecast to a live audience as well as via Zoom. This format was selected to minimize barriers to participation. We look forward to seeing you there!

Jülich Open Science Speaker Series – Open science saves lives – Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

Speaker: Alexander Storm (Justiziar, R-R, FZJ)er: Dr. Jens Bröder (Hub Information, Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) & IAS-9, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic. Most useful for people who create metadata somewhere.

Content: Research across the Helmholtz Association is based on inter- and multidisciplinary collaborations across its 18 centres and beyond. However, the (meta)data generated through Helmholtz research and operations is typically siloed within institutional infrastructures and often within individual teams. It is stored in these infrastructures through various channels by stakeholders with a wide range of various roles. As a result, the wealth of Helmholtz’s (meta)data is stored in a distributed and incoherent manner, with varying quality. This makes it hard to find and used to its full potential by scientists, managers, strategists, and policy makers.

To address this challenge, the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) launched the unified Helmholtz Information and Data Exchange (unHIDE) project in 2022. UnHIDE creates a lightweight and sustainable interoperability layer to interlink data infrastructures; and increase visibility and access to the Helmholtz Association’s (meta)data and information assets. Using proven and globally adopted knowledge graph technology, we are developing a comprehensive association-wide knowledge graph (KG), the “Helmholtz-KG”: a solution to connect (meta)data, information, and knowledge.

A first prototype of the Helmholtz KG was released in April 2023. This includes a comprehensive web frontend for manual search of resources [1], a stable and documented [2] backend with a tested data ingestion and integration pipeline, and machine accessible endpoints [3].

In this talk, we present an overview of the Helmholtz metadata ecosystem, we describe the first release of the Helmholtz KG, how it integrates metadata from heterogeneous sources and increases visibility and findability. Furthermore, we show how more data providers will be connected. We will illustrate the lessons learned during our development process and give an outlook into the next steps and future release versions of the KG. We will also discuss how such a graph can help improve metadata at the source in the future.

[1] https://search.unhide.helmholtz-metadaten.de/
[2] https://docs.unhide.helmholtz-metadaten.de/
[3] https://sparql.unhide.helmholtz-metadaten.de/sparql

Speaker: Alexander Storm (Justiziar, R-R, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic.

Content: Scientists, research software engineers, science officers, admin staff, and even lawyers are sometimes baffled by the seemingly complex structures offered by software licences and their compliance. Contributor licence agreements, software and IP clauses in cooperation agreements and other contracts often kill any interest in the topic that might have survived the first contact with its legal implementation.

This complexity is mostly unnecessary and can be reduced to a few key questions that should be answered before beginning a project. In this talk, these issues will be highlighted in regard to the following points:

• Reasons for early consideration of licence implementation within a software project
• Guide for choosing a software licence
• How to deal with external contributions
• Internal contract compliance versus external licence
• Open source versus proprietary
• Open source versus commercial exploitation

Speaker: Sven Rank (Scientific Officer for Digital Change, Corporate Development, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in RDM, especially researchers with data management tasks and/or project management tasks. Also, colleagues who contribute (technical) infrastructure or software to RDM.

Content: Sometimes small (but essential) bits and pieces are missing to effectively integrate and automate data management in your research workflow. Maybe your electronic lab notebook doesn’t work well; maybe data needs to be manually prepared for each research step; maybe metadata need to be added manually to measurements … The RDM Challenge Projects at Jülich are an instrument to tackle such hurdles with financial support from the Board of Directors and also with know-how from RDM experts on campus.

In the bigger picture, the challenges also involve an element of mutual support and exchange within the community of colleagues with an interest in RDM at Jülich. A report from each challenge is available on the RDM intranet portal and the general approach is one of "community over commercialization".

Zielgruppe: Alle interessierten Mitarbeitenden aus der Wissenschaft, die Argumente und Trends kennenlernen wollen.

Inhalte: Ein hochrangig besetztes Panel zu Vor- und Nachteilen verschiedener Publikationsarten und –orte erwartet Sie am Donnerstag. Von informativ bis kontrovers werden verschiedene Aspektes im wissenschaftlichen Publizieren diskutiert. Sie erwarten Fakten und Meinungen zu:

• Preprints vs. begutachtete Zeitschriftenartikel
• Open Access vs. Closed Access
• traditionelle Verlage vs. Newcomer vs. Predatory Publisher
• weitere Trends vs. etablierte Konventionen im Publikationswesen

Es diskutieren:

• Prof. Dr. Rudolf Merkel (Direktor IBI-2, FZJ)
• Prof. Dr. Christian Linsmeier (Direktor des IEK-4, FZJ)
• Adina Wagner (Doktorandin am INM-7, FZJ)
• Linda McGrath (Teamleiterin Publikationen in der ZB, FZJ, davor Senior Manager Publisher Partnerships De Gruyter)

Moderation: Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier (Leiter der ZB, FZJ)

Als FZJ-externe Interessenten an einer Teilnahme an dem Webinar kontaktieren Sie uns bitte direkt. Den Link zum Webinar mailen wir Ihnen am Tag vor dem Webinar zu. Kontakt: t.arndt@fz-juelich.de

Speaker: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: This talk is all intended for researchers who are curious but unsure about what open science is and why it matters, and who may also be interested but hesitant about adopting open science practices.

Content: The Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation quickly and clearly describes what open science is all about and how it differs from the current system. This is useful, but the real questions involve the pragmatics of adopting open science as the paradigm for scientific practice. In this talk, we discuss implementation of the two primary functions of an open scientific knowledge base: comprehension and documentation.

For comprehension, we discuss science reading as evidence-based pedagogy developed specifically to teach you how to reconstruct scientific processes from available documentation. For documentation, we introduce the concept of problem arcs as a general structuring mechanism, inherent to human cognition, to accurately and usefully document the problem solving and decision making involved in completing scientific processes.

Referentin: Ines Schmahl (ZB, FZJ)

Zielgruppe: Alle interessierten Mitarbeitenden aus Wissenschaft und dem Wissenschaftsmanagement.

Inhalte: Open Access, Forschungsdatenmanagement, Software Engineering, Open Science und usw.

Das sind alles Themen, die in den letzten Jahren immer mehr in den Blickwinkel geraten sind. Auch das Forschungszentrum engagiert sich. Es werden bereits aktuell eine ganze Reihe an Services, Infrastrukturen und Tools rund um Open Science angeboten und fortlaufend neue entwickelt.

Wie aber kann man hier den Überblick behalten?

Das Modell Helio (https://osf.io/b6mu7) für Open Science bietet eine Lösung an. Wie diese konkret aussieht, wird in dem Vortrag vorgestellt.

Begleitend empfehlen wir Ihnen den einleitenden Vortrag zu Helio “Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation” am Montag, 23.10.2023, 15:00-15:45 Uhr, zu besuchen.

Speaker: Jakob Fritz (JSC, FZJ)

Target group: Everybody interested in how many publications mention research software.

Content: The RSE Publication Monitor is an online tool to show how much and in which context people at FZJ write about software. For this, the RSE Publication Monitor queries the JuSER database to find publications that mention certain keywords related to software. Based on this information, it is then possible to browse through correlations of keywords mentioned in these publications, and also to find out how often different keywords are used in publications from different institutes. This tool can be easily extended to cover other keywords of interest and everyone is encouraged to design their own analysis. The code for this tool is publicly available and we are always open for collaborations and further ideas.

Speaker: Linda McGrath (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic.

Content: This session will give an overview of the open access services offered by the Central Library. Topics covered are:

• Plagiarism check using iThenticate
• Advice/current view on AI and LLMs in publications and in publisher policies
• Predatory journals and conferences and how to identify them
• Funding policy of the Central Library
• Processing of publication invoices

There will be time for your questions.

Speaker: Monica Gonzalez-Marquez (ZB, FZJ)

Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic, particularly researchers and scientific managers.

Content: This presentation will introduce the Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC) as a hub for all literature related to open science as a discipline. The collection will include traditional publication outputs (books and papers) as well as grey literature (blog posts, preprints, theses, etc.) and ephemera (twitter threads, podcasts, etc.).

As the collection is specifically for open science as a discipline, by definition all materials it contains will be freely available to everyone at no cost, as well as available on demand. As such, we are ensuring that all materials are either open access or available through a cc-by license. To ensure access on demand, copies of all materials will be stored on the JuSER infrastructure at Jülich. In the near future, we will also construct mirrors at Zenodo and at the Internet Archive.

The collection can be visited here:
JuSER publication portal – Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC)

Speaker: Oliver Bertuch (ZB, FZJ) Jakob Fritz (JSC, FZJ)

Target group: Software developers, research software engineers, line managers

Content: The FZJ Software Guidelines are intended to provide approval and encouragement when developing software as part of a research project. This talk will outline how the guidelines came about and how they can be applied. With the help of an interactive questionnaire in your web browser, conducting a guided analysis of your project is easier than ever.

Speakers: Robert Speck (JSC), Oliver Bertuch (ZB)

Structural and thematic networking among the open science protagonists and activities at Forschungszentrum Jülich is essential to establish a vivid and responsible open science community at Jülich that is representative of the importance of open science for science. To this end, the initiative “OS4FZJ – Weiterentwicklung von Open Science in Jülich”, as a joint effort on the part of the Central Library (ZB), the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Corporate Development (UE), addresses three challenges associated with the further development of open science: campus-wide networking, publication and monitoring, as well as research software engineering. This presentation will provide information on the motivation behind the project and details of its progression over the next two years.

Speaker: Ines Schmahl (ZB)

Topics such as reproducibility or transparency in research are becoming increasingly important to research funding bodies. The three most well-known research funding bodies – DFG, BMBF, and the EU with its Horizon Europe programme – have different requirements for research data management in the projects they fund. Moreover, these requirements have been continuously amended in recent years. In particular, the focus has shifted to data management plans as a project management method.

This presentation will provide an overview of current developments, and highlight similarities and differences between the three research funding bodies.

Speaker: Torsten Bronger (ZB)

Currently, many institutes and working groups are looking for solutions regarding electronic lab notebooks (ELNs). However, the market is confusing, and those on the lookout often find it difficult to formulate their requirements.

This presentation will provide you with information on what ELNs can do, the different approaches that exist, and points of contact if you have further questions. The focus will be on solutions for physicists, materials scientists, and engineers.

Speakers: Arthur Höring und Dr. Carsten Borchert (SciFlow)

This webinar will provide practical suggestions and tips on how to create a publication in SciFlow – be it internationally or within your own institution. The software’s features will be introduced with a focus on collaborative writing. The writing and publication platform SciFlow is licensed to employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich and can be used free of charge.

Speaker: Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier (ZB)

The current OA strategy of Forschungszentrum Jülich was implemented in 2015 and needs to be updated. At this event, the draft of an adapted strategy will be presented and discussed. Jülich employees are encouraged to obtain information at an early stage and to get involved. In November, the adapted strategy will be presented to the Main Committee. In December, the Board of Directors will make a decision.

7th HiRSE Seminar, at FZJ OS Week
Speaker: Jessica Mitchell (INM-6)

Documentation is often an overlooked part of software development. Here we discuss the concept of docs-as-code as a way to streamline documentation development alongside the code. From writing, reviewing, and testing documentation, we will show how the same workflows used in code development can be applied to documentation. We will look into this concept and show how this can work in a practical setting, using the NEST simulator as an example.