6th CERN–UNESCO–NRF Open Science School, Pretoria, South Africa, 2025

16 Feb 2025, 08:00 → 21 Feb 2025, 20:30 Africa/Johannesburg

National Research Foundation (Albert Luthuli Auditorium )

Sunday 16 February

Arrival: Arrival of participants at the hotel

Monday 17 February

Registration

Opening session: Official welcome and launch

Conveners: Kamran Naim (CERN), Dr Nokuthula Mchunu (NRF)

1 Welcome from NRF

Speaker: Dr Gugu Moche (NRF)

Moche .mp4

2 Welcome from CERN

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

vigen.mp4

Welcome_from_CERN.pdf

Welcome_from_CERN.pptx

3 Welcome from UNESCO

Speaker: Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

Straza.mp4

4 Welcome from CODATA

Speaker: Prof. Daisy Selematsela (CODATA)

Selematsela.mp4

5 Keynote: Fueling the new agenda for African languages x AI: Everything, everywhere, all at once

Speaker: Vukosi Marivate (University of Pretoria)

Marivate.mp4

6 Group Photo

Gj_LxY7WwAAcygO.jpg

7 Presentation of participants

8 Launch of the training

Speaker: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

12:00 Lunch break

Workshop: Group 1—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months

Workshop: Group 2—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)

Workshop: Group 3—Identifying two action items to address in the next 18 months)

15:00 Tea break

Workshop: Reporting back from the break-out groups

17:30 Welcome reception

Tuesday 18 February

Report from the rapporteurs: Day 1

Morning session: Research infrastructures

Convener: Nokuthula Mchunu (NRF)

9 Zenodo

Speaker: Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

2025-02-17-research-infrastructures.pdf

Zenodo Workshop

• Create an account
• Navigating Zenodo
• Create a new upload
• Create a new community
• Manage members
• Review submissions
• User sharing
• Link sharing

Zenodo's underlying open source technical platform: InvenioRDM

• Documentation
• Infrastructure architecture

10 Ubuntu Open Science Cloud

Speaker: Harold Bowa (UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networks)

UA Open Science Cloud NRF presentation Harold Bowa.pdf

11 Redalyc

Speaker: Prof. Arianna Becerril García (Redalyc)

RedalycArianna-NRF2-final (1).mp4

12 Discussions

12:00 Lunch break

Workshop: AfricArXiv

Convener: Harold Bowa (UbuntuNet Alliance for Research and Education Networks)

Workshop: Zenodo

Convener: Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

Wednesday 19 February

Report from the rapporteurs: Day 2

Morning session: Open Science policies

Convener: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN)

13 UNESCO and open science

Speaker: Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

Pretoria 19Feb25_UNESCO_Open science_Policy.pdf

Pretoria 19Feb25_UNESCO_Open science_Policy.pptx

14 CERN open science policy

Speaker: Dr Kamran Naim (CERN)

NRF Open Science Talk.pdf

NRF Open Science Talk.pptx

15 SA Open Science Policy draft (and process)

Speaker: Prof. Irvy (Igle) Gledhill (U. Witwatersrand, South Africa)

Gledhill UNESCO CERN NRF v05.pdf

Gledhill UNESCO CERN NRF v05.pptx

16 Discussion

11:00 Lunch-bag in the bus to Soweto

Excursion: Social outing to Soweto

17:00 South African braai

Thursday 20 February

Report from the rapporteurs: Day 3

Convener: Lars Holm Nielsen (CERN)

Morning session: Open Access

17 Open Access policy and implementation at CERN

Speaker: Anne Gentil-Beccot (CERN)

CERN OA Implementation.pdf

CERN OA Implementation.pptx

18 UNESCO study on predatory publishers

Speaker: Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

Pretoria 20Feb25_UNESCO_Open science_Predatory v3.pdf

Pretoria 20Feb25_UNESCO_Open science_Predatory v3.pptx

19 Spotting the wolves: Protecting your research (from predatory publishers)

The Academy of Science of South Africa's study on predatory publishers in the continent.

Speaker: Susan Veldsman (ASSAf)

CERN_UNESCO_NRF .pdf

CERN_UNESCO_NRF .pptx

20 DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals

A directory of certified journals, more African journals should be put forward for inclusion in the directory. Ina Smith ina@doaj.org is DOAJ senior ambassador for Southern Africa. Ambassador for other regions can be found from https://doaj.org/about/ambassadors/.

Speaker: Ina Smith (ASSAf)

DOAJ Overview.mp4

12:00 Lunch break

Workshop: MIT framework for publisher contracts

Convener: Courtney Crummet (MIT)

21 Slide presentation

Negotiations Planning Template-Elsevier .pdf

Negotiations Planning Template-SAGE.pdf

Sharable Open Science School-MIT Libraries Presentation .pdf

Sharable Open Science School-MIT Libraries Presentation .pptx

22 Exercise

Small group activity: Use the blank negotiation planning template to strategize your negotiations for the following scenario:

You have a title by title subscription with a mid to large sized commercial publisher, your subscription includes some titles but not all, and the subjects are interdisciplinary.

The Publisher has provided a proposal with an OA publication component that enables your authors to publish OA articles in hybrid journals at no cost to them. The OA proposal provided is a 10% increase from your subscription cost.

Negotiations Planning Template-BLANK .docx

Negotiations Planning Template-BLANK .pdf

Friday 21 February

Report from the rapporteurs: Day 4

Convener: Tiffany Straza (UNESCO)

Closing session: Breakout group (by country): take-away from the training and plan for the next 18 months

Closing session: Report from each group

Closing session: Closing and diplomas

Conveners: Mr Jens Vigen (CERN), Dr Nokuthula Mchunu (NRF)

12:30 Farewell lunch