Interoperability may sound technical, but at its heart, it’s about connection - helping data, systems, and people work together more effectively. In both heritage and research, it’s what transforms scattered collections into shared knowledge. Maryam Mazaheri illustrates common misconceptions around interoperability and describes what lessons can be derived.

In this interview with Peter Suber, the Senior Advisor on Open Access at Harvard Library and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project at the Berkman Klein Center discusses the current alarming developments taking place in the US research landscape – and offers valuable advice to colleagues from abroad.

Data sharing has been a success for large collaborations like CERN and LIGO. But what about small research groups with bespoke experimental setups?

Christian Grubak from ChronosHub and Josh Brown from MoreBrains share their thoughts on the transition to open access and the needs for its formalised management and collaborative community actions

Science and public health can benefit tremendously from sharing and reuse of health data. The Research for Health department has helped spearhead the launch of a new policy from the Science Division which covers all research undertaken by or with support from WHO. The goal is to make sure that all research data is shared equitably, ethically and efficiently.

The Open Research Data (ORD) Action Plan specifies the measures of the ORD Strategy published in July 2021. It represents a further step for Swiss institutions towards facilitating access to research data and thus Open Science. 

Study investigates the importance of tasks associated with data sharing, and researchers’ satisfaction with their ability to complete these tasks.

By adopting the Open Research Data (ORD) Strategy, swissuniversities has taken a further step towards Open Science and follows on the existing Open Access strategy.