On Wednesday 27 May 2020, 10 – 11 am, the Specialised Information Services for Geosciences (FID GEO) and for Cartography and Geodata (FID Karten) will…

Sharing Geoscience Online (#shareEGU20) brings part of the activities of the EGU General Assembly 2020 online. From 4 to 8 May 2020 (CEST) everyone…

The Code of Conduct “Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practice” of the German Science Foundation DFG was updated and significantly expanded…

With a focus on the geosciences, FID GEO regularly publishes news on the electronic publishing of research data, texts and maps on its website.…

Interesting for geoscientists too: The Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V. has announced an Open Data Impact Award to strengthen Open…

FID GEO is co-organiser of two sessions at the GeoUtrecht2020 (24-26 August 2020, Utrecht, NL) and calls for contributions to one or both sessions.…

FID GEO published an article about the national DEAL contracts in the bulletin of the German Geophysical Society (Rote Blätter): “Durchbruch DEAL:…

Research Data Policies 

More journals and publishers are introducing research data policies. But as the prevalence of policies increases, there is…

FID GEO has compiled an information brief for scientists to explain concisely the contracts of the DEAL project with the publishers Springer Nature as…

Already in Summer 2019, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) published updated Data Citation Guidelines and new Software and Services Citation…