Open Access International Week: discover two events this Friday, October 25

This Friday, 25 October, as part of the activities of the International Open Access Week, FCCN, the digital services of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), is promoting the webinar ‘Expanding Open Science: New Models, Evaluation and Open Data’ at 10 am. At 11.30 am, the webinar on the catalogue of services of the OPERAS research infrastructure will take place, presented by the UC Open Science team.

In addition to a review of what has already been achieved in the field of open science, news and some indicators, the FCCN meeting will also discuss New Models of Scientific Communication, the Diamond Initiative and the National Programme for Open Science and Open Research Data, as well as the topic of Research Assessment. You can register for the activity via this link.

The webinar on the catalogue of services of the OPERAS infrastructure, which is focused on the field of Social Sciences and Humanities, will be presented by Lorena Caliman, from the UC Open Science and OPERAS-PT team, the national node of the infrastructure, led by the University of Coimbra. During the meeting, each of the services available to researchers, authors, publishers and other stakeholders in the open scholarly communication lifecycle will be presented. Registration can be done via this link.

This year's theme for the International Open Access Week is ‘Community over commercialisation’. Find out more about the initiative at https://www.openaccessweek.org. In Portugal, International Open Access Week is organised by RCAAP. Find out more at: https://projeto.rcaap.pt/semana-internacional-do-acesso-aberto-2024/.