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How do shared principles actually reshape governance, funding models, and everyday decisions inside open scholarly infrastructures? This question framed our recent webinar, organized in light of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI) 2.0. [Read More]

In late 2025, the Netherlands Barcelona Declaration Network met in Leiden to reflect and set priorities for 2026. This blog outlines those priorities and highlights how the growing network of universities, funders, and research infrastructures advances open, community-governed research information. [Read More]

Adopting organisations share how POSI v2 is guiding the sustainability of open scholarly infrastructure in practice. Organized in the context of the Barcelona Declaration, this conversation explores governance, funding, and long-term resilience through real-world experience. [Read More]

On 4 December 2025, the Barcelona Declaration, through its Working Group 4 (Replacing Closed Systems), co-organised the webinar “Open Research Information in Action: Institutional Journeys Towards Open Systems” together with the Helmholtz Open Science Office. [Read More]

We are pleased to announce that LA Referencia has joined the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information as a supporter, strengthening shared efforts to advance open, interoperable research information infrastructures across regions. [Read More]

As we step into the first days of 2026, we are taking a moment to reflect on what 2025 has meant for the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information [Read More]

The disclosure of who funds research is an important way of building trust in published findings. Commenting on recent interventions by The Committee on Publication Ethics and the International Science Council, Hans de Jonge, Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion argue that to be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications. [Read More]

Four institutions from Europe and Latin America share how they use or are moving toward open, non-proprietary research-information systems. This webinar, co-organized by the Working Group 4 of the Barcelona Declaration and the Helmholtz Open Science Office, explores practical pathways, governance models, and lessons learned from their experiences. [Read More]

On October 2, 2025, funders, publishers, submission system providers and infrastructure organisations came together for a focused discussion on improving the collection and sharing of open funding metadata. [Read More]

We are excited to announce the launch of a Joint Task Force on Negotiating Openness of Publication Metadata, established in partnership between the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information and the OA2020 Initiative. [Read More]