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COARA action plan of the Associazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta

The only evaluation activity carried out by AISA is that related to the awarding of a prize for theses dedicated to Open Science. The prize is awarded by a panel of three commissioners appointed by the President in consultation with the Board, whose names are made public. The panel selects the theses relevant to the […]

ANVUR’s rule: state evaluation and open peer review in Italy

This summer the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research Systems (ANVUR) denied scientificity and excellence (“classe A”) to Open Research Europe (ORE) for general sociology. Recently, however, ANVUR has updated its rules for classifying journals, adding an article 18 entitled ‘Transitional regulation for open peer review’. The ORE affair was the […]

ITRN 2023 Reproducibility Award

Italian Reproducibility Network is awarding a prize for contributions to reproducibility, replicability or open science over the past 5 years. Submission Deadline: January 20, 2024 Details and submission link <https://www.itrn.org/initiatives/reproducibility-awards> The prize includes a certificate, 1-year ITRN membership and a reward of 200€. The awarding moment will be an in-person ceremony during the 3rd Annual […]

Open Science and centralized and administrative research assessment: an odd couple?

AISA responds to COARA‘s Call for Working Groups with its own proposal: “Open Science and centralized and administrative evaluation of research: an odd couple?” The aim of the working group is to understand whether and how a centralized and administrative assessment of research, which evaluates its “products” in a zero-sum game, can be made compatible […]

Call for papers: PUBMET 2016

The 3rd Conference on Scholarly Publishing in the Context of Open Science will be held in Zadar, Croatia on 20 and 21 October 2016 *** CALL FOR PAPERS Full CFP can be found here: http://pubmet.unizd.hr Email: pubmet@unizd.hr The PUBMET 2016 conference will present innovative approaches, best practice discussions and take on future challenges. The field […]