Open Science Week

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

Open Science Week 2025 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 and recordings of the webinars will be available from November in our publication portal JuLib eXtended.

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.

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.

Open Access Brandenburg’s networking and competence centre – 2025/26 programme (in German) of the “quo vadis” open science series in Berlin and Brandenburg

Registration for this event via Zoom – Open access 2025 – Collaborations for open access publications

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.

GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences – GFZpublic – Helmholtz memorandum on the open access transformation – Position paper of the Helmholtz Association’s open science working group and the library and information management working group

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.

Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering – Seminar Series – 47th HiRSE Seminar

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.

GO FAIR.org – FAIR Principles

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”.

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 Uhr: 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.

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.

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)

Target group: Researchers of all disciplines

This webinar will provide a concise overview of the fundamentals of open science and outlines the requirements of the German Federal Government’s 8th Energy Research Programme (EFP). It will also show how open science instruments promote cooperation and networking in joint projects. We look forward to your interest and your questions about open science in energy research.
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) – Publications – 8th Energy Research Programme for applied energy research – Research missions for the energy transition

Your contacts at ZB

Thomas Arndt
t.arndt@fz-juelich.de
+49 2461 61-2907
Library Marketing

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.

Collection of selected slides and recordings can be found in our publication portal JuSER

Publication portal JuSER – Open Science Week 2024 am Forschungszentrum Jülich
Publication portal JuSER – Open Science Week 2023 am Forschungszentrum Jülich
Publication portal JuSER – Open Science Week 2022 am Forschungszentrum Jülich
Publication portal JuSER – Open Access Week 2021 – Beiträge der Zentralbibliothek
Publication portal JuSER – Open Access Week 2020 – Beiträge der Zentralbibliothek

Open Science Week 2024

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)
Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 14:00 – 14:45: Data Publication – An End in Itself or the Future of Science? (webinars in German)
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)
Thursday, 24 October 2024, 08:30 – 17:30 Content Curators or How to Let Research Data Management Improve your Research Output (workshop in English)
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.

Helmholtz Platform for Research Software Engineering – Seminar Series – 34th HiRSE Seminar

Thursday, 24 October 2024, 14:00 – 15:00 Learn How to Use SciFlow Authoring (SciFlow webinar in English)

Open Science Week 2023

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)
Monday, 23 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Heliocentric Model of Open Science Documentation (webinar in English)
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
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)
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
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)
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45: Do I really need a licence for my code? (webinar in English)
Wednesday, 25 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Jülich RDM Challenges (webinar in English)
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 10:00 – 11:30: Open Access, Impact-Faktor und Predatory Publishing – Wo soll ich publizieren? (panel discussion, online, in German)
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 14:00 – 14:45: The Pragmatics of Helio - Science Reading and Problem Arcs (webinar in English)
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45: Services, Infrastrukturen und Tools zu Open Science – Wo finde ich was? (Webinar in German)
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 16:00 – 16:45: Do People write about Software? – JuSER-based RSE Publication Monitor (webinar in English)
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)
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)
Friday, 27 October 2023, 15:00 – 15:45 Uhr: Making the FZJ software guidelines more interactive and accessible (webinar in English)

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)
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)
Wednesday, 26 October 2022, 10:00–10:30: Electronic lab notebooks (webinar in German)
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)
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 10:00–10:30: The new open access strategy of Forschungszentrum Jülich (webinar in German)
Thursday, 27 October 2022, 14:00–14:45: Docs-as-code: How to write documentation with developers (webinar in English)

Your contacts at ZB

Thomas Arndt
t.arndt@fz-juelich.de
+49 2461 61-2907
Library Marketing

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

Open Science Week

Last Modified: 17.10.2025