The French Mathematical Society (SMF), the Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society (SMAI) and the French Statistics Society (SFdS), in association with the Epijournal of Algebraic Geometry Epiga (chaired by Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput, University of Lorraine), have decided to create the “Jean-Pierre Demailly prize for open science in mathematics”.   Read the full article (in French) on … Read more

At the beginning of 2023, Jérôme Moritz, a CNRS researcher at the Institut Jean Lamour, realised that all the journals covering plasma physics publications required payment of APCs to make articles available for download (open access). He therefore decided to create a new diamond journal, free of charge for authors and readers, funded by the … Read more

At the start of this new year, the ADOC Lorraine data workshop is launching a new service to support you, the researchers of the Lorraine university site, at every stage in the process of publishing your data paper.   Read the full article (in French) on Factuel: https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/25279

DOREL (DOnnées de la REcherche Lorraines) is, until early 2024, the institutional repository for research data from the Université de Lorraine and the Lorraine site. It is now recommended to deposit your data in the DOREL institutional space of the national repository Recherche Data Gouv, which replaces it.   Read the full article on Factuel: … Read more

Finalized research data generated in the context of public funding must be opened up whenever possible. At the same time, research units classified as ZRR (for “area of restricted status”) must put in place extensive protocols to protect the data generated in this context. How can this apparent contradiction be resolved?   Read the full … Read more

The Université de Lorraine publishing network was created at the end of 2022 to provide a forum for dialogue and work on the scientific publishing of journals and books.   Read the full article (in french) on Factuel: https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/24974

As part of their training in documentary research, Master 1 students in the Agronomy, Environment, Territories, Landscape and Forest (AETPF) and Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environment (STPE) courses received an initial introduction to the principles of open science at the University Science and Technology Library. Through an interactive course on Wooclap, students were able to … Read more

Lorraine’s campus includes several supervisory bodies, each offering a range of tools for managing research data. Which ones should you choose? ADOC Lorraine’s data workshop can help you choose. If in doubt, write to us at   On the Université de Lorraine’s Science Ouverte website, in the “Data” section and then “FAQ“, you can … Read more

The decision by the Scientific Council of the Université de Lorraine not to renew the university’s subscription to the Wiley journal package from 2024 will enable the savings made to be allocated to the continuation of actions already launched, and to initiate others, at the service of all researchers on the Lorraine site.   Read … Read more