As part of International Open Access Week, the Central Library (ZB) of Forschungszentrum Jülich is offering interested colleagues and guests the opportunity to attend a series of information events hosted by and involving FZJ institutions and employees on the fundamentals of scientific publishing, research data management, and research software, as well as the latest developments in these fields.
Open Science Week 2026 at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Employees and people with access to the intranet of Forschungszentrum Jülich who are interested in participating in the webinars are invited to register directly here.
External parties who are interested in participating in the webinars run by FZJ should contact us. The registration links will be emailed to you. Contact: t.arndt@fz-juelich.de
The webinars will take place online via Zoom, while the information stand will only be available on site in Jülich.
Slides of the webinars will be available in our publication portal JuLib eXtended.
Monday, 19 October 2026
11:00 – 13:00: Open science, open access, RDM, RSE, and further developments in scientific publishing (information stand in the Seecasino) (German/English)
Target group: All employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich
Content: Open science refers to an open information exchange in science. To achieve open science, the topics of open access, open data, and open source must be combined. Learn about relevant initiatives and projects on the Jülich campus as well as future plans at our information stand in the Seecasino of Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Meet:
Anna Lüscher, head of the Publications team, Central Library (ZB-LP)
Dr. Amber Sprenger, research data community manager, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Dr. Kimberly Cordwint Martin. research software manager, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
14:00 – 14:45: Jupyter4NFDI – One hub to rule them all (webinar)
Speaker: Tim Kreuzer, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)
Target group: Everyone interested in FAIR data principles; everyone using or curious about Jupyter
Content: Join us for a presentation of Jupyter4NFDI in “Lord of the Rings” style and experience a live demo of Jupyter4NFDI.
Sharing and reproducing research with Jupyter notebooks is harder than it seems. Institutional JupyterHubs lock shared work behind login walls; environment incompatibilities break notebooks on arrival; and a link that works for the author often returns a cold "403 Access Denied" to everyone else. Tools like Binder solve part of the problem by spinning up a notebook environment from a repository with a single click, but their sessions are stateless: changes vanish when the tab closes, and no persistent data storage is available. This presentation, told with a touch of epic storytelling, follows that journey from the myth of easy collaboration to the gates of Jupyter4NFDI.
Jupyter4NFDI is a federated Jupyter service for the NFDI community that pairs Binder-style reproducibility with persistence. Notebooks can mount external storage such as B2DROP or AWS S3, and a single share link recreates the notebook, its environment, and its mounts for anyone who follows. Credentials stay hidden, and secure, GDPR-compliant access via IAM4NFDI welcomes researchers from across Europe and beyond — no matter their land or lineage. The result: what once took hours of configuration now takes minutes, and what was once lost is now reproducible — persistence, portability, and open federated collaboration, bound together in one hub.
10:00 – 11:00: Research data management – A practical introduction (webinar)
Speaker: PD Dr. Hartmut Schlenz, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Institute for Energy Materials and Devices (IMD), Materials Synthesis and Processing (IMD-2)
Target group: Master’s students and doctoral researchers, scientists, laboratory technicians who deal with RDM (e.g. use of ELNs)
Content: With this introduction to research data management (RDM), we would like to provide practical assistance for all stages of RDM to anyone who generates and/or wants to use research data, regardless of the type of data. We all should be able to understand essential RDM structures and handle data confidently, from creation and analysis to long-term storage. In summary, research data is a valuable resource and it is worth handling it carefully and sustainably. The professional management of research data is becoming increasingly important in science and is now strongly recommended or even required by many third-party funding bodies (DFG, BMFTR, BMWE, EU, etc.) for the approval of funding for new research projects. The main motivation for this is to create a comprehensive collection of research data, the production of which is primarily financed by public funds. The focus here is on good scientific practice and the traceability of research results. Another aim is enabling meaningful reuse, for example as training data in the field of machine learning (ML) or in applications involving artificial intelligence (AI). Another aspect is the conservation of resources, both financial and for the protection of the environment and the climate. Conducting experiments and computer simulations may require a lot of energy and thus contribute to increased CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Science can make a contribution here by avoiding the repeated generation of existing data.
The aim is to generate FAIR data, i.e. research data that is findable, accessible, processable, and reusable. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to establish a comprehensive infrastructure (hardware, software, etc.). The German Federal Government is supporting this development, for example by financing the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) and the thirty consortia it comprises, each of which is geared to the needs of different scientific and technical disciplines.
14:00 – 14:45: Hello, nice to read you – Introduction to open access (webinar)
Speakers: Anna Lüscher, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-LP)
Target group: All employees and guests of Forschungszentrum Jülich interested in this topic
Content: This talk offers a quick and easy introduction to the fundamentals of open access (OA). It will clarify the core concept, contrast it with traditional closed access publishing, and outline the overarching goals of open access.
16:00 – 17:00: CompilerGPT – Leveraging large language models to analyse and act on compiler optimization reports (HiRSE webinar)
Speaker: Dr. Peter Pirkelbauer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Center for Applied Scientific Computing
Target group: Anyone interested in research software around the world
Content: Compiler optimization reports contain valuable insights, but their technical complexity often makes them difficult for programmers to interpret and act upon. This talk presents CompilerGPT, a framework that connects compilers, large language models, and a user-definable evaluation harness in an iterative compile, optimize, and evaluate workflow. CompilerGPT uses optimization reports, source code, compiler diagnostics, and performance measurements to guide LLM-generated code transformations while checking correctness and tracking results.
We will describe the framework, its configurable compiler and model interfaces, and experimental results using Clang and GCC, multiple LLMs, and representative sequential and OpenMP benchmarks. We will review demonstrated speedups of up to 6.5x, along with the variability, cost, and user involvement observed across workloads. The talk will also present updated results and examine CompilerGPT in the broader context of coding agents, discussing how compiler feedback, testing, profiling, and performance evaluation can serve as tools within agentic software-development systems.
10:00 – 10:45: Open access quo vadis – The example of the American Chemical Society(webinar)
Speaker: Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB)
Target group: All employees and guests of Forschungszentrum Jülich interested in this topic
Content: While the share of open access articles is still on the rise, the underlying business models often remain the same. Rooted in the subscription model, libraries are forced to pay for paywalls and many scientists are excluded from access. These and other issues are part of the ongoing negotiations with publishers. We will look at the example of the American Chemical Society and learn what priorities publishers have.
14:00 – 14:45: The new Jülich DATA for sharing and publishing (webinar)
Speaker: Dr. Torsten Bronger, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-O)
Target group: Researchers, data stewards
Content: Jülich DATA has made a transition from a data registry to a data repository. For researchers, this means that you can finally upload big bulk data to Jülich DATA to publish it. This talk will present the possibilities and the workflow.
15:00 – 16:00: Getting started with DeepL – An introduction to DeepL Translator and DeepL Write (webinar)
Speaker: Sina Sauerhering, DeepL SE
Target group: All employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich interested in this topic
Content: This webinar will provide an introduction to the main DeepL products and features available to you with your DeepL Pro licence. We will take a closer look at how you can translate and improve your texts quickly and easily, and even translate entire files while preserving their original layout. We will also show you how to get the most out of your translations using customization assets like the DeepL glossary.
Thursday, 22 October 2026
10:00 – 10:45: Is that allowed? A short guide to Creative Commons (CC licences)(webinar)
Speaker: Anna Lüscher, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-LP)
Target group: All employees and guests of Forschungszentrum Jülich interested in this topic
Content: This talk will demystify CC licensing for scholarly works. It will define what these licences are and why they matter to authors, readers, and re-users. It will show how the six core CC licences function as building blocks, explaining the rights each licence grants and the restrictions it imposes. The aim is to empower authors and everyone else to use CC licences confidently.
14:00 – 14:45: Bridging research silos – How PIDs build a connected and open research landscape (webinar)
Speaker: Antonia Schrader, Helmholtz Open Science Office
Target group: Scientists at all stages of their career, employees working in administration, RDM, libraries, repositories
Content: This presentation introduces foundational PID concepts and outlines practical avenues for integrating identifiers into daily research practices. It highlights key recommendations from the national PID Roadmap for Germany, addressing how sustainable infrastructures, standardized metadata, and institutional alignment can foster an open, interoperable, and AI-ready research ecosystem.
Sustained and reliable access to digital resources is crucial for modern research, innovation, and cultural heritage. A robust system of persistent identifiers (PIDs) forms the technical and organizational backbone for this landscape. For researchers, PIDs are essential tools that directly boost the visibility, discoverability, and impact of scholarly work. By uniquely connecting authors, publications, datasets, software, and research institutions, PIDs ensure reliable attribution, streamline citation tracking, and reduce administrative overhead across workflows. Furthermore, they operationalize the FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable), ensuring research outputs remain transparent, reproducible, and machine-readable for future technological advances.
15:00 – 16:00: How SciFlow makes academic writing effortless through automated formatting (webinar)
Target group: All employees interested in this topic
Speakers: Arthur Höring, SciFlow
Content: SciFlow is an online writing and publishing software that makes academic writing processes more manageable. This webinar shows you how to save time when writing your academic texts (from article submission to doctoral thesis) by simplifying complex formatting and research integrity tasks.
We will cover how, beyond automated formatting, SciFlow offers strong collaboration capabilities, easy integration of reference libraries, automated citations, and reference sharing between collaborators.
The webinar also highlights a new feature piloting advanced research integrity testing that helps you check references you use for retractions, missing metadata, or other potential inconsistencies, ensuring oversight and control over the references you want to use.
External parties who are interested in participating in the events should contact us directly. We will email you the link to the respective webinar the day before it takes place.
The open-access.network has compiled a list of many other online events taking place during this campaign week in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on this website. open-access.network – Training – Open Access Week 2026 (website in German, training courses might be in English)
Monday, 20 October 2025, 11:00 – 13:00: Open science, open access, RDM, RSE, and further developments in scientific publishing (information stand in the Seecasino) (German/English)
Target group: All employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich
Content: Open science refers to an open information exchange in science. To achieve open science, the topics of open access, open data, and open source must be combined. Learn about relevant initiatives and projects on the Jülich campus as well as future plans at our information stand in the Seecasino of Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Monday, 20 October 2025, 14:00 – 15:30: Open Access 2025 – Collaborations for open access publications (“quo vadis” online discussion in German)
Panel discussion participants:
Prof. Dr. Karin Ilg, Hochschule Bielefeld, University Library
Dr. Dagmar Meyer, European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA)
Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB)
Dr. Torsten Reimer, University of Chicago, University Library
Event moderator: Prof. Dr. Heinz Pampel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Helmholtz Association
Target group: All employees from the scientific community who want to learn about current arguments and trends in open access publishing and guests
Content: To mark the start of International Open Access Week 2025, the 2025/26 “quo vadis” open science series in Berlin is entering its fifth edition. To kick things off, a virtual panel discussion will explore the current state and future prospects of open access and examine how the topic fits within the broader framework of open science.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 10:00 – 10:45: Open access at a crossroads (webinar in German)
Speaker: Dr. Bernhard Mittermaier, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB)
Target group: All interested employees of Forschungszentrum Jülich and guests
Content: Open access publishing has become the new normal. However, the business models of journals are only changing very slowly. This talk addresses this contradiction. It shows how the Helmholtz Association is responding to this situation through the Helmholtz memorandum on the open access transformation and how Forschungszentrum Jülich is implementing this memorandum.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 11:00 – 11:45: Code, community, company?! Sustaining open-source research software by founding a company (HiRSE webinar)
Speakers: Nina Rosnerski & Dr. Alexander Schlemmer, IndiScale
Target group: Research software engineers or others that code as part of their research work
Content: Research software is developed with great effort and dedication, but all too often there is a risk of this initial enthusiasm fading away once projects end or key contributors move on to other roles. In this talk, we discuss one possible way of addressing this challenge: founding a company. We will explore conditions under which founding a company can help to ensure the long-term maintenance of software, create reliable structures, and give research software a future beyond short-term funding cycles. At the same time, we will reflect on the tensions that can arise from commercial structures, share some of the challenges we have faced along the way, and invite discussion about what sustainable models for research software might look like inside and outside academia. Our perspective comes from IndiScale, where we continue to develop the open-source toolkit LinkAhead. LinkAhead originated around 15 years ago in a research context under the name CaosDB. In 2019, the core developers founded IndiScale to give the project a sustainable future. Today, LinkAhead is used successfully across a wide range of interdisciplinary research fields.
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 14:00 – 14:45: Research data management at Forschungszentrum Jülich – Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue ... (webinar)
Speakers:
Dorit Jerger, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Corporate Development (UE)
Sven Rank, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Corporate Development (UE)
Ines Schmahl, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-OF)
Target group: Any interested employees from science and science management
Content: The aim of research data management (RDM) is to make research data FAIR – which means findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. To achieve this goal, Forschungszentrum Jülich provides RDM services and tools for its employees. The first part of this talk provides an overview on where to get help and what tools are available. The second part focuses on new RDM measures at Forschungszentrum Jülich. If you would like to find out more, make sure to join our talk.
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 10:00 – 10:30: Sharing huge amounts of research data via IPFS (webinar)
Speaker: Dr. Torsten Bronger, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-O)
Target group: Anyone interesting in exchanging (large amounts) of research data with external researchers
Content: Transmitting terabytes of research data is challenging, and popular protocols such as HTTPS are not suitable for this purpose. With the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), we present a well-established, interoperable, and scalable alternative, which is to be implemented in our institutional data repository “Jülich DATA”.
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 14:00 – 14:30: Open research information for transparent and fair research assessment (webinar)
Speaker: Marc Lange, Helmholtz Open Science Office
Target group: This talk is aimed at researchers, research support staff, librarians, and administrative personnel working with research data (e.g. evaluation and monitoring).
Content: Research information – data on research outputs and activities – is ubiquitous and essential in everyday research, whether in the form of bibliographic metadata on publications and other research results, data on funding and projects, or information about research institutions and researchers themselves. However, much of this information is often collected by commercial providers and made available to the scientific community for a fee (e.g. Web of Science and Scopus). Since research information is indispensable for strategic decision-making, resource allocation, research evaluation, and recruitment – in other words, crucial for transparent and fair research assessments – ensuring its openness is essential. Open research information is therefore a key component of open science practices and the ongoing reform of research assessment – not least for safeguarding academic sovereignty. This talk will give a brief overview of these issues.
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 10:00 – 10:45: Valuing what matters – Developing new approaches to research assessment (webinar)
Speaker: Dr. Mathijs Vleugel, Head of the Helmholtz Open Science Office
Target group: Researchers, research managers
Content: Advancing the quality and impact of science requires us to reimagine the practices and criteria used to evaluate researchers and their institutions. This talk will focus on the latest developments in research assessment, including initiatives like DORA and CoARA, and highlight concrete actions being taken by the Helmholtz Open Science Office. These include (1) developing quality indicators for data and software products, and (2) promoting value-based evaluation practices within the Helmholtz Association.
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 11:00 – 11:45: Rights attribution in collaborative projects – CLA is the way (webinar)
Speaker: Alexander Storm, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Law division
Target group: RSEs, developers, lawyers
Content: How to implement a clear and streamlined approach to contributing to collaborative projects, with a focus on low-administration documents such as contributor licence agreements, in comparison to other options such as a developer’s certificate of origin, cooperation contracts, or the establishment of a legal entity.
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 14:00 – 14:45: Publication and open access services of the Central Library (webinar in German)
Target group: All employees interested in this topic
Speakers: Marina Kleikamp & Anna Lüscher, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Central Library (ZB-L)
Content: This webinar provides information on open access and offers an overview of the open access services available at the Central Library.
FZJ’s open access strategy
Support offered by the Central Library
Processing of invoices for publications
Plagiarism check using iThenticate
There will be plenty of time to answer your questions during the webinar.
Friday, 24 October 2025, 10:00 – 10:30: Open science in energy research – practical, funding-compliant, and collaboration-oriented (webinar in German)
Speaker: Dimitri Lang, Project Management Jülich, System Integration of Renewable Energy (ESI 4)
Monday, 21 October 2024, 11:00 – 13:00: Open Science, Open Access, RDM, RSE, and Further Developments in Scientific Publishing (Information Stand in the Seecasino)
Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic.
Content: Open science refers to an open information exchange in science. To achieve open science, the topics of open access, open data, and open source must be combined. Learn about relevant initiatives and projects on the Jülich campus as well as future plans at our information stand in Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Seecasino.
Monday, 21 October 2024, 14:00 – 15:30: Open Access Monitoring – Opportunities and Challenges for Open Science (Quo vadis panel discussion in German)
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?
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 14:00 – 14:45: Data Publication – An End in Itself or the Future of Science? (webinar in German)
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.
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 10:00 – 10:45: JuSER publications portal – A New Start with MyCoRe (webinar in German)
Speaker: Cornelia Plott und Heike Lexis (both ZB, FZJ)
Target group: All interested members of the scientific community who are looking to publish.
Content: The services and online portals of the Central Library are constantly being developed. After more than 10 years of operating and improving the JuSER publications portal, we are preparing to switch to a much more modern software solution in 2025. In this webinar, you can gain an initial insight and give us your feedback.
Wednesday, 23 October 2024, 14:00 – 14:45: Kick-Start Research Data Management (webinar in English)
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.
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.
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 14:00 – 14:45: Journey to FAIR Research Software with MATLAB (HiRSE webinar in English)
Speaker: Mihaela Jarema (Senior Customer Success Engineer, MathWorks), Claire Wyatt (Community Manager for Research Software Engineering, FZJ)
Target group: Anyone doing Research Software Engineering.
Content: Research software must be sustainable to enable scientists to build on the work of their peers effectively. This talk explores key capabilities, tools and services for researchers using MATLAB to develop FAIR research software. Additionally, the talk will describe complimentary collaboration opportunities with MathWorks aimed at facilitating sustainable research.
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 14:00 – 15:00: Learn How to Use SciFlow Authoring (SciFlow webinar in English)
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.
Monday, 23 October 2023, 11:00 – 13:00: Open Science, Open Access, RDM, RSE, and Further Developments in Scientific Publishing (Information Stand in the Seecasino)
Target group: All employees who are interested in the topic.
Content: Open science refers to an open information exchange in science. To achieve open science, the topics of open access, open data, and open source must be combined. Learn about relevant initiatives and projects on the Jülich campus as well as future plans at our information stand in Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Seecasino.
Monday, 23 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45: Everything you always wanted to know about Open Access but were afraid to ask (webinar in English)
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.
Monday, 23 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation (webinar in English)
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.
Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 11:00 – 12:00: Enabling Open and Reproducible Science Through Community-Driven Training (webinar in English) +++ Postponed +++ New date: 29 November 2023
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.
Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 13:00 – 13:20: Start of JARA Coffee Lecture Online Series – Systematic literature searches for scientific work – Part 1 – Planning (coffee lecture, online, in German)
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).
Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 14:00 – 15:30: Start of Open Science Speaker Series – Open science saves lives – Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic (lecture, online, in English) +++ Postponed +++ New date: 13 February 2024
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!
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, How to “unHIDE” and improve the metadata landscape of research in Helmholtz – Towards more sustainable science through FAIR metadata (webinar in English)
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.
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45: Do I really need a licence for my code? (webinar in English)
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
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Jülich RDM Challenges (webinar in English)
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".
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 10:00 – 11:30: Open Access, Impact-Faktor und Predatory Publishing – Wo soll ich publizieren? (panel discussion, online, in German)
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
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45: The Pragmatics of Helio - Science Reading and Problem Arcs (webinar in English)
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.
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Services, Infrastrukturen und Tools zu Open Science – Wo finde ich was? (Webinar in German)
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.
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 16:00 – 16:45: Do People write about Software? – JuSER-based RSE Publication Monitor (webinar in English)
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.
Friday, 27 October 2023, 10:00 – 10:45 Uhr: At your service – Publication and Open Access services offered by the Central Library (webinar in English)
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.
Friday, 27 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45 Uhr: A new hub for literature related to Open Science – The Jülich Open Science Collection (JuOSC) (webinar in English)
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.
Friday, 27 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45 Uhr: Making the FZJ software guidelines more interactive and accessible (webinar in English)
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.
Open Science Week 2022
Monday, 24 October 2022, 11:30–13:30: Information stand in the Seecasino: Open science, open access, RDM, RSE, and further developments in scientific publishing (German/English)
Open science refers to an open exchange of information in science. To achieve this, the topics of open access, open data, and open source must be interconnected. Further information about associated initiatives and projects on the Jülich campus as well as future plans is available at our information stand in Forschungszentrum Jülich’s Seecasino.
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 10:00–10:30: “Open Science 4 FZJ” initiative (webinar in German)
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.
Tuesday, 25 October 2022, 14:00–14:30: RDM and research funding bodies: An update – The role of data management plans in project proposals (webinar in English)
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.
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:00–10:30: Electronic lab notebooks (webinar in German)
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.
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 14:00–15:00: Introduction and new collaborative features: How researchers work on a publication in SciFlow together with their team (webinar in German)
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.
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 10:00–10:30: The new open access strategy of Forschungszentrum Jülich (webinar in German)
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.
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 14:00–14:45: Docs-as-code: How to write documentation with developers (webinar in English)
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.
Do you have any questions concerning open access and open science? Take a look at our Internet and intranet pages, or contact us to arrange an individual consultation appointment. Internet (ZB) – Open Science Intranet (ZB) – Expertise
