ZBW MediaTalk

23/12/2025

Wir wünschen allen Leserinnen und Lesern, all unseren Partnerinnen und Partnern und natürlich den Kolleginnen und Kollegen eine schöne Weihnachtszeit und einen guten Rutsch in ein hoffentlich friedliches und gutes Jahr 2026! 🎄💫🎆

23/12/2025

Aber ist es FAIR? NFDI4Culture hat dieses Jahr eine überarbeitete Version des FAIR Check veröffentlicht. Das Browser-basierte Tool ist jetzt interaktiver, benutzerfreundlicher und einfacher zu bedienen. Der Check soll Forschenden helfen, die Qualität digitaler Forschungsdaten aus dem Kulturbereich besser zu bewerten. Dabei kann es sich um Daten aus einem Forschungsprojekt, einer Sammlung oder einem Museum handeln.

👉 https://nfdi4culture.de/services/fair-check

22/12/2025

"This recording shows current debates and developments around Open Educational Resources (OER) in Germany, with a focus on higher education and cross-sector collaboration. Konrad Faber and Noreen Krause introduce the national cooperation network KNOER, connecting ten institutions to strengthen OER infrastructures and services. The session explores key questions on linking OER with Open Science, embedding openness in curricula, addressing challenges in practice, and advancing interoperability toward a sustainable OER ecosystem."

🇩🇪Open for Germany – OERcamp cOERrespondents from around the wOERld 👤Konrad Faber (Managing director of the Virtual Campus Rhineland-Palatinate (VCRP) and...

22/12/2025

"We present data from a large German funding organization on an implementation of a lottery-first approach followed by peer review to allocate funding. We examine the changes in submissions and funded projects of female applicants after implementation, estimate the costs of the overall allocation process, and report on the attitudes and satisfaction of researchers and reviewers."

The authors show evidence from a German funding line that a lottery-first approach followed by peer review is accompanied by increased female representation both at the submission stage and among funded projects as well as by lower estimated costs.

19/12/2025

"In an era of rapid change in higher education, one constant remains: students need support not just to access information, but to understand it, evaluate it, and use it responsibly. The academic library has long provided that foundation."

Today's guest post argues that academic libraries are an investment in the very foundation of quality scholarship and responsible publishing.

19/12/2025

"As the experts, how do you achieve library success? How do you assess your library’s performance? How do you use analytics to make decisions? In this 15-min presentation given at the Library Assessment Conference, Selena Killick from The Open University shares her success stories using 6 library assessment techniques."

Selena Killick (The Open University) presents "Putting a Library Assessment Culture into Practice" at the 2020 Library Assessment Conference on November 18.

18/12/2025

This report examines how open science practices contribute to research culture, drawing on a scoping review of academic and grey literature: https://zenodo.org/records/17379696

18/12/2025

Das Modul mit dem Titel "Open Science – Open Principles" steht ab sofort allen Interessierten auf der Lernplattform ILIAS offen und kostenlos zur Verfügung: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/forschung/kontakt/eresearch/aktuelles/nachrichten/open-science

18/12/2025

"Generative AI tools often produce inaccurate results and may cite retracted or unreliable studies without warning, posing risks to research integrity. Whether these systems can reliably detect and exclude retracted publications remains unclear."

👉 https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/88766

17/12/2025

"The 55th LIBER Annual Conference will be held on 1-3 July 2026 at the NTNU University Library in Trondheim, Norway. The theme of the 2026 Conference is: ‘The Power of Libraries in an Uncertain World‘."

Call for Proposals: https://liberconference.eu/call-for-proposals (deadline: 5 January 2026)

17/12/2025

"In addition to providing academic assistance, the Libraries has an array of mental health resources, programs, and events to help students manage stress, burnout, depression, and anxiety."

The Libraries has an array of mental health resources, programs, and events to help students manage stress, burnout, depression, and anxiety.

16/12/2025

"With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help."

With human peer review struggling to keep pace with machine-generated science, aiXiv enlists bots to help