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News on Open Science and Science 2.0 (Newsletter August 2019)

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Around the research alliance and it’s partners Fellow Program Open Science: Kick-off Event Wikimedia’s Fellow Program Open Science enters its fourth year. In September fellows and mentors will meet for the first time in Berlin to get to know each other and plan their work for the next eight months. Wikimedia is hosting a public […]

Review: How the Economic Impacts of Open Science are being measured

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by Birgit Fingerle Among the reasons for fostering open science are its potential economic benefits. But does open science really lead to economic benefits? An article examining “The Economic Impacts of Open Science: A Rapid Evidence Assessment” was published on 1 July 2019. It researches the economic impacts of open science and their contextual factors by systematically reviewing existing studies. The result: evidence is patchy and diverse. One of the reasons is that using the outputs of open science does not often leave an obvious trace, especially outside of the academic context. So, it is often necessary to conduct interviews […]

Digitisation of Higher Education: Systemic Framework Conditions and influencing Political Factors

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by Birgit Fingerle The HoF work report „Disruption oder Evolution? Systemische Rahmenbedingungen der Digitalisierung in der Hochschulbildung“ (PDF in German language) („Disruption or Evolution? Systemic Framework Conditions for Digitisation in Higher Education“) of the Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF) at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (prepared on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research) was published at the end of June 2019. The report deals with the digitisation of education at universities. Since research at universities is not the subject of the report, research-related topics such as open data and open science are not considered. In contrast, […]