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Welcome to LU Open Science Days 2025 – Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science!

Join us on the 19th and 20th of November at Palaestra for the third instalment of LU Open Science Days organised by the cross-faculty Open Science Champions group. The event aims at bringing together staff, faculty, and research students from across the university to engage in a dialogue about what the future of Open Science and Open Access should look like in Lund and beyond.

Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science

The overarching theme for this year’s conference is Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science. This encompasses how open science can foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability in scientific research.  

In an era where public trust in science is both crucial and contested, this event brings together researchers, PhD-students and other staff from Lund University and researching organisations in the local vicinity to explore how open science practices can strengthen the integrity and credibility of scientific knowledge. 

The programme committee invite all LU-affiliated researchers and PhD-students as well as support staff that work with research support to attend this free of charge lunch-to-lunch conference that highlights Open Science, by featuring inspiring speakers and lively discussions. We have a limited number of seats for participants that are not LU-affiliated. If you are not LU-affiliated and want to attend the conference, please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se.

Registration is now open. Please register here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/i7ZdzGrejh

Vegetarian lunch and coffee is included. On the 19th of November there will be a poster mingle with drinks and snacks.

The programme is preliminary and will be updated continuously.

 

Wednesday 19th November

11:30-13:00 Registration and lunch

13:00-13:10: Welcome speech and opening of conference 

13:10-14:00: Keynote: Open Science in Sweden, Europe, and Beyond 

We open the Lund University Open Science Days with a keynote that places trust and integrity in science at the center of the conversation. This introductory session, supported by VR, will reflect on how Open Science is being shaped locally at Lund University, nationally in Sweden, across Europe, and globally. From research funders’ perspectives to the responsibilities of institutions and researchers, we will explore how openness can strengthen reliability, transparency, and societal trust in knowledge.

14:00-14:30: Open Science in the crosshairs: The massification of commercial academic publishing, AI, and ethical open access futures 

As with most aspects of the academic endeavour, the rapid emergence of generative AI has dropped like a bomb into the academic publishing ecosystem, exposing significant fault lines in how the academy disseminates knowledge. From the large corporate publishers selling access to their corpuses to be harvested by LLMs to journals publishing submissions with AI prompts intact, AI is exposing contradictions in academic publishing. This session will lay out some of the challenges we face and open up discussion for possible ethical open access publishing futures.

Speaker: Nicholas Loubere, Senior lecturer, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

14:30-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:45: Innovation and Open Science 

Speakers TBD 

Session host: Nicoló Dell’UntoProfessor, Archaeology

15:45-16:30: The politics of archives and Open Science 

Archives are spaces for the preservation of documents, and (hi)stories and knowledge that come with them – on events, institutions, science and people. They are also spaces of power, which has implications for what can be found in archives, how it can be accessed and engaged with. Often governed by states, regional bodies or private actors, archives can be selective in what they disclose and when, opening and closing access to collections in view of different political contexts. There have also been popular efforts to preserve pasts and presents, and initiatives such as counter-archives that aim to make marginalised (hi)stories visible. Much of archival documentation is stored in physical formats, making access to them limited to those who can visit the archive and learn to navigate its logics. However, there has been a lot of emphasis on digitalisation of archival collections, fostering openness of these holdings to research and broader public, and sometimes mobilising popular support in digitalisation efforts. Engaging with these themes, this session addresses the politics of archives and their interconnections with open science.

Speakers TBD 

Session host: Ekaterina ChertkovskayaResearcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies

16.30 – Poster mingleand reception.

The program committee invites PhD students, researchers and support staff to present their experiences of engaging in open science at the poster exhibition. A call for posters will soon be announced. If you already have an idea for a poster about an open science project or initative that you are engaged in, please contact alice.olsson@ub.lu.se

Both LU and non-LU contributors are warmly encouraged to apply; a limited number of spots are available for external contributions. 

Thursday 2oth November

08:00-09:00 Registration and coffee 

9:00-9:45: Keynote: Malcolm MacLeod, Professor of Neurology and Translational Neuroscience and Co-Director of Edinburgh Neuroscience, University of Edinburgh

9:45-10:30: Preprint services and their impact on open science. 

Open data and open articles are important components of open science. At least some 80 resources provide preprints, i.e. versions of manuscripts before publishing in journals. Multidisciplinary arXiv was established already in 1991, several others are more recent. Together they contain millions of manuscripts. Preprint services are important channels for sharing information; many of the submissions are never published elsewhere. In this session, we will give an introduction to preprint services and provide personal experiences in different fields. 

Speakers:

Nicholas LeighSenior lecturer, Division of Molecular Medicine and Gene Therapy

Anders Irbäck Professor, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC)

Moderator:

Mauno Vihinen – Professor and Research Team Manager, Protein Bioinformatics

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:45: Subaltern perspectives in knowledge creation

Universities are spaces for knowledge creation, but the kinds of knowledges that are discussed in academia and seen as scientific are quite limited. This does not capture a whole variety of ways of living and knowing on the planet. Subaltern knowledges outside academia – of indigenous peoples, peasants and other marginalised communities – can show paths towards more sustainable and just living. But these knowledges have also been oppressed, erased and downgraded, including through positioning scientific knowledge as superior. For being truly open, science and universities need to grapple with their colonial pasts and presents, and learn from subaltern knowledges. This session aims to reflect on the relationship of subaltern knowledges with open science. How can academic knowledge be enriched by these perspectives? How to work with people who have been creating these knowledges whilst avoiding knowledge extraction? Can these knowledges create synergies, or alliances, with what is considered scientific knowledge, for a better world?

Speakers TBA.

Session host: Ekaterina ChertkovskayaResearcher, Environmental and Energy Systems Studies

11:45-12:30: Open Science and ethical frameworks sensitive to both security and recognition

Doing research with communities in vulnerable social positions presents several ethical challenges. How can we as researchers act morally when research guidelines are not aligned with the interests of the one we are doing research with? How to go about when GDPR reenforces the imbalance of power between researchers and participants? In this session, researchers from different disciplines discuss trust and ethics when conducting research with women experiencing violence and with asylum seekers.

Speakers:

Claudia Di MatteoDoctoral student, School of Social Work

Sara ArapilesPostdoc, Department of Law

Moderator: Sara Hultqvist, associate professor and senior lecturer, School of Social Work.

12:30-12:45: Closing the conference 

 

 

August 28, 2025

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Welcome to the online event Open Software in Research – Practices, Policies, and Communities

Research software is essential to the research process but is not always recognized or supported on the same level as other research outputs. Several international and national efforts have begun addressing this gap, including a recent funders’ workshop in Uppsala and the Nordic Research Software Engineer (RSE) Conference. Building on these initiatives, this Lund Open Science (online) session will highlight the importance of supporting research software in Sweden and explore how we can do so collectively. Participants will discuss the role of Research Software Engineers, sustainable funding and policy models, and best practices for sharing and developing sustainable research software, as well as opportunities for shared action to strengthen the Swedish research software ecosystem, ensuring it is visible, reusable, and aligned with FAIR and open science principles.

In this event we welcome input from:

Chris Erdmann: Head of Open Science at SciLifeLab, working with open source research software, open access, open data, research resources and computing, and AI.

Johan Linåker: Senior Researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lund University. Empirical Software Engineering researcher with focus on open source software, data sharing, and open source AI in the context of industry and public sector.

Sanja Halling: Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Research Council, working with coordination, promotion and an yearly follow up of open access to research data in Sweden.

Malin Sandström: Senior Research Officer at the Swedish Research Council, working with e-infrastructure, primarily HPC.

Moderator: Angeliki Adamaki – Chair of LU OS Champions and member of OSCL

When: October 20, 13:30 (until 15:00)
Where: Online. Please register here: https://lu-se.zoom.us/meeting/register/p-kKDcG0TECDkxS-D5b-Fw
Hosted by: LU Open Science Champions and Open Science Community Lund (OSCL)

September 5, 2025

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Welcome to LU Open Science Days 2025!

The Open Science Days will be organised for a third consecutive year. This year it will take place on the 19th and 20th of November. The overarching theme for this year’s conference is Open Science: Trust and Integrity in Science. This encompasses how open science can foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and accountability in scientific research.  

In an era where public trust in science is both crucial and contested, this event brings together researchers, PhD-students and other staff from Lund University and researching organisations in the local vicinity to explore how open science practices can strengthen the integrity and credibility of scientific knowledge. 

Over the course of the conference, participants will engage in dynamic discussions, panels, and keynote sessions that address critical topics such as: 

– Mass publications, paper mills, and the acceleration of proliferation of (anti)knowledge 

– Reproducibility 

– The politics of archives for open science 

– Indigenous knowledges and open science 

– Preprint services and their impact on open science 

– Innovation and open Science  

 

WHEN: 19th – 20th of November 

WHERE: Palaestra 

WHO: The program committee is happy to invite all LU-affiliated researchers and PhD-students, as well as support staff that work with research support to attend this free of charge lunch-to-lunch conference. We have a limited number of seats for participants that are not LU-affiliated.  

Registration will open in August on https://openscience.blogg.lu.se/ 

If you are not LU-affiliated and want to attend the conference, please contact karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se. 

May 22, 2025

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Open Science events from SciLifeLab this spring

SciLifeLab will host three Open Science events in May. All events will be online and registration is open for all who are interested.

14th May 15:00 (CEST): How a Community of Practice (CoP) can support your research.

During this presentation you will hear from Josh Gottesman (Michael J. Fox Foundation), Bogdana-Raluca Huma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Community of Practice for Open Naturally Occurring Data), and Mirjam Walpot (International Network of Open Science & Scholarship Communities) about real-world examples of successful CoPs and the value they bring to researchers and institutions alike.

More information and link to register.

 

15th May 15:00 (CEST) Leveraging Overlay Journals to Link to and Cite Data, Software, and Research Outputs

In this presentation you will hear from Philipp Koellinger (President of the DeSci Foundation) and Christopher Erdmann (Head of Open Science, SciLifeLab) and they will show how you can link and share your data, software, and other research files alongside your published articles, leveraging the decentralised web and digital object identifiers (DOIs), to make your research outputs globally discoverable and citable.

More information and link to register.

 

27th May – 10.15-12.00 (CEST): The future of Open Science in Sweden

In this roundtable on the future of Open Science implementation in Sweden, Richard Williams, a postdoctoral researcher in the philosophy of Open Science at the Technical University of Munich, will open the discussion with a critical examination of the Open Science movement. Following this, Angeliki Adamaki – Lund University Open Science-champion and co-founder of Open Science Community Lund -, Sanna Isabel Ulfsparre – analyst at Vetenskapsrådet specializing in Open Science and research data -, and Stefan Ekman – senior advisor at the Swedish National Data Service (SND) – will explore key challenges, opportunities, and next steps for Open Science in Sweden.

More information and link to register.

 

April 30, 2025

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Welcome to the second meeting with Open Science Community Lund!

On the 24th of April from 14:00 to 16:00 the Open Science Community Lund (OSCL) will gather for the second time.

During the last meeting we discussed the community’s purpose and values, who the community is for, and brainstormed activities. On the 24th we want to take these ideas and formulate a community statement and future activities.

If you want to join the meeting and get to know the community, please sign up here.

Want to join the OSCL and stay connected with colleagues interested in open science? Join our mailing list!

Our ambition is to create an open and inclusive platform for people that are connected to research organizations in Lund and are interested in and curious about Open Science. We welcome people with all levels of experience in open science; you do not need to be an expert. We want to create opportunities to learn from each other and engage in discussions about any aspect of open science.  

 

April 8, 2025

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Advancing Diamond Open Access Publishing

The Swedish Association of Higher Education organised a webinar last week on diamond open access publishing in Sweden. I think most subscribers to this blog are familiar with the notion of diamond open access, if not, I will briefly explain. Diamond open access is open access that does not encompass any fees for neither authors nor readers. Most open access journal are financed by article processing charges (APCs). Diamond open access journals are usually funded by universities or other institutions and plenty of “love of labour” from researchers in editorial boards and teams. I will return to this point later. Publishers of diamond open access journal do not make any profit, which means this model does not risk facilitating predatory publishing. Hence, in the view of many, diamond open access is the most ethical model for journal publishing fostering both accessibility, quality and sustainability. Returning to last week’s webinar on diamond open access in Sweden Anna Gudmundson, editor of the Diamond open access journal Moderna Språk and researcher at Stockholm University accounted for her experience as editor and what kind of support she would like to have access to. This included legal expertise, technical support, editing and copy-editing. Activities that she currently manages herself but that are time consuming, taking time away from actual research and are not part of the expertise of a researcher. Anna’s account of being an editor of a diamond open access journal resembled very much the experiences expressed by the panelists in the session about open access journals during LU open science days 2023. The editors on the panel struggled constantly with funding and carried out lots of voluntary work to be able to keep the journal going. Following Anna Gudmundson’s talk Sofie Wennström from Stockholm University reported on recent developments in Europe and Sweden that support diamond open access publishing such as the European Diamond Capacity Hub and the new Swedish initiative diamondoasweden.org. The aim of the Swedish initiative is to improve conditions and support for not-for-profit open access publishing.

Current initiatives on diamond open access must be seen in light of previous efforts and current guidelines. In 2015, Swedish higher education institutions embarked on a path towards open access by entering into transformative agreements, also known as read and publish agreements. These agreements were and continues to be primarily negotiated by the national consortia BIBSAM. Being one of the largest and most multidisciplinary universities in Sweden, Lund University has since entered into most of these agreements. In 2023, the number of agreements reached 31 in total (for a complete list see p. 38 in Open Access-publicering vid Lunds universitet 2023 (Swedish only). All but one encompass publishing in hybrid journals, that is, journals that publish both subscription-based articles (articles behind paywalls) and open articles by charging APCs. These agreements have resulted in an increase in the number of articles that are open but also increasing in costs for subscriptions and publications. In addition, the hybrid model that was intended to be a transitional solution, from a subscription based scholarly communication landscape to an open one, has proved to be a rather persistent model. In 2023 the Swedish Association of Higher Education working group called Beyond the transformative agreements, published a report stating recommendations for how BIBSAM and Sweden should move forward to reform the scholarly communication landscape towards openness and financial sustainability. The groups recommends BIBSAM to cease signing agreements that include publishing in hybrid journals. From 2026 and onward only agreements to publish in fully open access journals should be signed. In addition, the report advocates the need for an independent national publishing platform and support to research-owned journals to migrate these from commercial publishers to non-profit platforms. The EU council conclusions on High-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing that were adopted in 2023 point out the need for diversity in the both formats and open access publishing models. The conclusions highlight that the not-for-profit open access publishing play an important role for a sustainable and equitable scholarly communication landscape and that public research organisations, like higher education institutions, should support this. The wording of the National guidelines for promoting open science in Sweden align with the council conclusions. Amongst priorities and goals are; increase transparency in costs for publishing, decrease that costs, supporting infrastructures for non-profit-publishing and facilitate open access publishing in alignment with the FAIR-principles.

I’m looking forward to seeing how diamond open access initiative develop and grow and hope that Lund University will be part of these efforts to facilitate ethical not-for-profit publishing.

Do you have any thought or experiences of diamond open access that you would like to share on this blog? If so, send me an email karolina.lindh@ub.lu.se

April 3, 2025

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Webinar on how to adopt the FAIR principles in life science research

SciLifeLab will host a webinar titled “It just works with my software” – How to adopt the FAIR principles in life science research at any career stage on April 22 10:00-11:00.

The seminar will explain why funders promote the FAIR principles and showcase how the principles are useful to you in projects and collaborations of any size. The FAIR principles are intended to support effective data sharing up to the degree that you can assert “It just works with my software”. But they apply equally well to the social aspects of data sharing and can serve as a guide to help you address the question “If I leave the lab today, how can my colleagues understand, find and use my data?”.

The event is aimed at researchers and professionals at any career stage who aim to optimize their data management practices.

Read more about the event here: “It just works with my software” – How to adopt the FAIR principles in life science research at any career stage

March 26, 2025

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Exiting news from the Swedish National Data Service – Researchdata.se – Sweden’s new portal for research data

Today, 25 March, marks the launch of Researchdata.se, a new national web portal designed to make it easier for researchers to find, share, and reuse research data across various disciplines.

Through a searchable platform, users gain access to thousands of datasets and resources for sustainable data management throughout the research process. The portal facilitates collaboration between universities, research infrastructures, and research organizations working with Open Science by providing a shared platform for data sharing and expert support. This strengthens interdisciplinary cooperation and enables more efficient management of research data.

“Researchdata.se is a major step towards a future where Open Science is the norm. The portal not only simplifies open access to research data, but also serves as a shared space for collaboration, innovation, and sustainable data management in Sweden. We will continue to develop Researchdata.se in close collaboration with our partners and the research community to enhance research quality, transparency, and long-term societal benefits.”
– Eva Stensköld, Director of Swedish National Data Service

Researchdata.se was developed on the initiative of Swedish National Data Service (SND) and is part of the effort to meet the EU’s and the Swedish government’s goal of open access to publicly funded research data by 2026. In collaboration with research infrastructures such as the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Huminfra, InfraVis, NBIS, SBDI/GBIF, SciLifeLab, SITES, and Swedigarch, Researchdata.se brings together expertise and resources to support the research community.

Interested in collaborating?

Researchdata.se will continue to evolve, with new features added to meet future needs. Would you like to contribute? Researchdata.se welcomes new partners, including research infrastructures and repositories, that are interested in sharing research data resources, training materials, and data management tools.

For more information about collaboration opportunities, contact snd@snd.se.

March 25, 2025

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New mail list for the Open Science Community Lund (OSCL)!

We are delighted to announce that the Open Science Community Lund now has an email list! Our ambition is to create an open and inclusive platform for people that are connected to research organizations in Lund and are interested in and curious about Open Science. We welcome people with all levels of experience in open science; you do not need to be an expert. We want to create opportunities to learn from each other and engage in discussions about any aspect of open science.  

The community held their first meeting in February and we plan to organize a second meeting by the end of March/beginning of April. If you want to keep track of what is happening you can join the community by signing up to our email list here:

https://lists.sunet.se/postorius/lists/oscl.lists.sunet.se/

We know that emails sent to the list can end up in the quarantine if you have a LU email. If this happens to you, you need to manually allow emails from the list in Microsoft security. Information in English about how to do this is available here. We have been in touch with LU IT about this. They say they cannot whitelist the email list but that Microsoft defender will eventually learn that emails from the list are not spam if you confirm they are not.

When you have signed up to the list, you will be added to our shared folder in LU box, which is where you and everyone else in the community can share files.

If you want to learn more about the International Network of Open Science and Scholarship Community visit their website. The code of conduct that applies to INOSC and its local communities is available here.

Join us to share and learn about open science!

 

March 17, 2025

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Webinar about navigating Open Science policies

PLOS and SciLifeLab will host a webinar titled “Navigating Open Science Policies – Practical Guidance for Researchers on Sharing Data and Software” on April 3, 13:00 – 14:00.

The webinar will briefly summarise the current landscape of selected open science policies. Through real-world examples from PLOS and SciLifeLab, attendees will gain practical insights into how these policies are being implemented and how to align their work with both institutional and national requirements and monitoring initiatives.

Read more about the webinar and register here: PLOS and SciLifeLab Webinar: Navigating Open Science Policies – Practical Guidance for Researchers on Sharing Data and Software

March 4, 2025

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