Season’s greetings from the Barcelona Declaration 🟣🟡 As the year comes to a close, thank you to everyone who makes this community possible: across working groups, task forces, and all the conversations in between. Wishing you a well-deserved break. Onward to 2026, together.

Highlights: ✨ statements alone aren’t sufficient 🔎 enables analysis & verification across outputs 🏗️ infrastructure matters (for example, Crossref Grant IDs) + stronger workflows 🔗 clear roles for funders, publishers & infrastructure providers

This post by @hldejonge.bsky.social, Katharina Rieck and Zoe Ancion (Barcelona Declaration Working Group Coordintors) examines what’s needed beyond funding statements in individual publications and why open, structured funder metadata is important.

Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency Funding transparency is key for trust in research. Recent guidance from COPE and the International Science Council confirms it’s firmly on the agenda. 🔗 barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025121...

The blogpost is a commentary on recent interventions by the the Committee on Publication Ethics @publicationethics.bsky.social and the International Science Council (ISC) @sciencecouncil.bsky.social

To be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications. Blog post by @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion (co-chairs of the Barcelona Declaration working group on funding metadata) blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Come and hear what other institutions are already doing to transition to using and producing open research information! Webinar on Dec 4 15:00-16:30, organized by the Barcelona Declaration in collaboration with Helmholtz Open Science Office 👇👇👇

Delighted to see this announcement by @uva.nl of its signature of the @barcelonadori.bsky.social www.uva.nl/shared-conte... Support for the Barcelona Declaration keeps growing in the Netherlands! @cwtsnl.bsky.social

2/2 • 45 funders using Grant IDs (250k+ links) • Standardisation + coordination = faster progress🔗 Read: barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025102... #FundingMetadata #OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation

1/2 Moving funding metadata forward: highlights from our round table (co-organized with @crossref.bsky.social) New blog by @hldejonge.bsky.social , based on Working Group 3 (Funding Metadata) • ~25% Crossref records have funding info ⬇️

We're covering a lot of ground next week (OA week) with the Barcelona Declaration! 👇

Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - Who we are in 3 minutes! ▶️ Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmbt... @barcelonadori.bsky.social

1/2 Honoured to be shortlisted for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award 🏆✨ This recognises our work toward open, trusted, high-quality research information Thanks to @ludowaltman.bsky.social (@unileiden.bsky.social @cwtsnl.bsky.social), @msphelps.bsky.social & Cameron Neylon for shaping the vision

Is there a relationship between the metadata publishers submit to Crossref and the submission systems they use? 🤔 We (w/ @msphelps.bsky.social) analyzed 153 publishers and 4 major systems to find out. 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenScience #Crossref #OpenMetadata #BarcelonaDeclaration

📢 New preprint w/ @hldejonge.bsky.social ! We explore how manuscript submission systems may affect completeness of open metadata in @crossref.bsky.social . Some systems better support metadata – but tech isn't the only factor. 👉 doi.org/10.31222/osf... #OpenScience #OpenMetadata #Publishing

The Barcelona Declaration community @barcelonadori.bsky.social is gaining momentum across Latin America 🌎 The thread below summarizes some recent engagements and developments 🧵

The Barcelona Declaration community @barcelonadori.bsky.social is gaining momentum across Latin America 🌎 The thread below summarizes some recent engagements and developments 🧵

🎉 1 year in: @crossref.bsky.social Grant IDs at NWO are surfacing in publications. @hldejonge.bsky.social on why cleaner funding metadata unlocks discovery, attribution & evaluation. Read: www.crossref.org/blog/celebra...

NLM terminates the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee (LSTRC). LSTRC was a rather mystical committee that chose which journals did/didn't get into Medline (main route to PubMed). Publishers lived in fear of it as inclusion can make or break a journal www.nlm.nih.gov/medline/medl... 1/3

QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

Looking forward to the conference - and to discuss the importance and implications of open research information for the STI community! #scientometrics #bibliometrics #researchassessment

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration! The University of Zürich has joined @cern.bsky.social and the @swissrn.bsky.social as signatories, showing Switzerland’s growing commitment to open and transparent research information.⬇️

This a heartening read - Nonprofit Refuses $1.5M Science Grant Due To New Federal DEI Rules @carpentries.carpentries.org 💪

You've got mail! Postcards from the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information - to celebrate the season wherever you are ☀️❄️! @barcelonadori.bsky.social

Really happy with the emergence of community-led coordination around open research information - read more about it on the new Barcelona Declaration page on national networks: barcelona-declaration.org/national_net...

#WOOC2025 Day 2 session and talks are available on the @opencitations.bsky.social YT channel: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Let’s keep advancing #OpenResearchInformation

🎥 We’ve just launched the Barcelona Declaration YouTube channel: a new space to explore our community’s work! First up: the Bologna Meeting morning sessions www.youtube.com/watch?v=1USS...

A bold step for open research 🟨🟪👣 Wellcome has joined the Barcelona Declaration. A big move from one of the world’s leading research funders. With persistent identifiers and open metadata policies, they’re helping shift how research is recognized and rewarded. 🔗 wellcome.org/news/wellcom...

🛠️ Collaboration for Openness At the University of Milan, 23 Italian institutions explored real-world strategies alongside OpenAlex, @opencitations.bsky.social @openaire.bsky.social Part of the #BarcelonaDeclaration 📄https://barcelona-declaration.org/news/20250709_university_of_milan_workshop/

🧑‍🍳From the Barcelona Declaration kitchen: At the Bologna Meeting, community-led breakout sessions explored key themes: metadata, infrastructures, evaluation, sustainability, and more. 📄 Discover the ingredients for change: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Very happy that @wellcometrust.bsky.social‬ has signed the Barcelona Declaration!

We're hosting a pub watch party on the last afternoon of #Metascience2025 in London! Join us to screen and discuss two pre-conference symposia. @msphelps.bsky.social will introduce the @barcelonadori.bsky.social, followed by drinks and chats. Reg... https://metadata-metascience-2025.eventbrite.com/

📢 The Bologna Meeting Report is now out! Nearly 200 participants from 35 countries — in the room and online — joined us to reflect on progress and shape next steps for the Barcelona Declaration. 📄 Read the full report on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We're hosting a watch party on 2nd July alongside/after #Metascience2025, screening 1-2 pre-conference symposia and then joined by conference attendees for an intro to @barcelonadori.bsky.social by @msphelps.bsky.social. metadata-metascience-2025.eventbrite.com Cc @rorinstitute.bsky.social @cos.io

1. It's Fustilarian Friday and today's drop is the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. My read is that this is designed to (1) protect far-fringe figures such as the antvaxxers now heading our health agencies, and (2) kneecap efforts to use scientific evidence in regulatory policy.

Reposting this excellent article, since I think it provides such a great framework for thinking through how we can act in this moment! upstream.force11.org/the-resilien... It also includes a link to the Declaration, which I encourage everyone to sign! defendresearch.org #Academia #DefendResearch

Practice what you preach: we have gone through the Publish (at MetaArXiv doi.org/10.31222/osf...); Review & Curate (metaror.org/kotahi/artic...) steps at @metaror.bsky.social with our @hldejonge.bsky.social / @msphelps.bsky.social) article ‘Tracking transformative agreements through open metadata’

Many thanks also to @mikaellaakso.bsky.social and @najko.bsky.social for their thoughtful reviews!

Great thoughful blog post from @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and @jeroenson.bsky.social: The resilience of open science in times of crisis. doi.org/10.54900/pqr... They abstract different types of threats and different aspects of resilience - linking both to the current political situation.

Great thoughful blog post from @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and @jeroenson.bsky.social: The resilience of open science in times of crisis. doi.org/10.54900/pqr... They abstract different types of threats and different aspects of resilience - linking both to the current political situation.

A more concise entry on @opensciencenl.bsky.social to our (with @jeroenbosman.bsky.social) longer blog post on @upstreamblog.bsky.social post of this morning: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/the... #openscience #resilience

Science is under attack. In this post "The resilience of open science in times of crisis" @jeroenbosman.bsky.social and I detail events around 5 types of threats, and we propose a resilience model to safeguard scientific communities and open infrastructures. upstream.force11.org/the-resilien...

Also, excellent news! Knowledge Commons commits to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). about.hcommons.org/2025/05/06/s... Our first audit is here: about.hcommons.org/about-us/pos...

Not sure what to make of the change in implementation date (Dec → July 2025) of the NIH Public Access policy. www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh... At face value, it signals commitment to the policy (and PMC)? But also, it reads somewhat like sowing chaos in an already stretched-to-the-limit environment?

Read this! Peter Suber @petersuber.bsky.social ersuber.bsky.social on the impact of the current US administration on the academic sector: www.zbw-mediatalk.eu/2025/04/pete... "Host your open and uncensored research in more than one place and preferably more than one country.”

Great to see Pangaea / Helmholtz @www.helmholtz.de involved in this - and simultaneouly intrigued on the details, esp. where it says 'formally working with [NOAA]"? doi.org/10.1038/d415... Also good to see the update re: public data.

Interesting opinion in Science suggesting to replace 'scientific consensus' with convergent evidence. Because it is less easily derailed by quoting one dissenting opinion. Seems like a good idea! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

One year ago, on April 16, 2024, the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information was launched. In this blogpost, we highlight some of the developments during this past year: barcelona-declaration.org/news//202504...

WEBINAR RECORDING: Catch up with our recent event on Good Metadata Practice for #OAbooks, organised with @oipassoc.bsky.social ! 📺 youtu.be/TK2mZwIpIog?... Our speakers at @thoth-metadata.bsky.social have shared a post summarising the event: 📝 copim.pubpub.org/pub/good-met... #MetadataMatters

This is exactly why we need decentralized, distributed platform governance in multiple national jurisdictions backed by open content that cannot be removed.