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Dear Colleagues, The German project DAPHNE4NFDI (https://www.daphne4nfdi.de/english/index.php ), together with the European Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser User Organization (ESUO), the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA), and European synchrotron and neutron facilities, have been con...

Dear Colleagues, I have placed my lecture slides and abstract presented at Liverpool University on the 11th September at Zenodo:- https://zenodo.org/records/13777914 This includes a weblink to the event itself and which includes a weblink to a video of my lecture (45 minutes). The Contents list of m...

Dear Colleagues, I share my report in the current IUCr Newsletter, weblink below, as a consultation on the wide ranging open science initiatives of UNESCO and the International Science Council:- https://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/etc/articles?issue=158542&result_138339_result_page=11 Please reply ...

Dear Colleagues I draw your attention to this group of articles which are a Tribute to Olga Kennard:- https://pubs.aip.org/aca/sdy/article/11/4/040401/3305500/Introduction-to-the-Special-Issue-Tribute-to-Olga Introduction to the Special Issue Tribute to Olga Kennard (1924–2023) urldefense.com Greet...

Dear Colleagues,
Our article on this topic is available open access from this weblink:-
https://journals.iucr.org/m/issues/2024 ... index.html
Best wishes,
John
Emeritus Professor John R Helliwell DSc

Dear Colleagues, My new book entitled “The Scientific Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth”, which has much content on the role of scientific data (raw, processed and derived), is now published. There is an extensive website of details and sample content :- https://www.routledge.com/The-...

Dear Colleagues. A US-UK Scientific Forum on Researcher Access to Data was held in Washington, DC, in September 2023. Quoting from its abstract: "The forum examined the constellation of issues surrounding researchers' access to data, best practices and lessons learned from exemplary research discipl...

Dear Colleagues, My presentation slides at the British Crystallographic Association Annual Conference, University of Leeds, UK March 2024 on this topic I have placed at Zenodo:- https://zenodo.org/records/10864090 This is a ppt file so please do feel able to reuse any that you wish. I have also prov...

Dear Colleagues, I think the recent activities at the EuXFEL with respect to their newly revised Data policy are of considerable, wide, interest including to crystallographers. I write here within the perspective of a general interest in facility policies’ data strategy. The relevant EuXFEL document...

Dear Colleagues, The first article from our CommDat’s activities at IUCr 2023 Melbourne, “The interoperability of crystallographic data and databases” is now online in IUCrJ. Please see:- https://journals.iucr.org/m/issues/2024/01/00/lt5064/index.html Best wishes, John Emeritus Professor John R Hell...