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Simon Worthington

Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities

Research areas: Social Sciences · Library and Information Sciences · Academic Publishing and Open Access · Research Data Management Practices · Publishing and Scholarly Communication

ORCID iD 0000-0002-8579-9717
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Simon Worthington is a book liberationist. He is a member of the Open Science Lab at the German National Library of Science and Technology, where he is editor of Generation Research, an open science blog, as well as a researcher in semantic publishing for NFDI4Culture — part of the German national research infrastructure consortium. He studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL and CalArts.

As of 2019 he is a Board Member of FORCE11 an organisation for the future of scholarly communication. He has worked as a research author for the Akademienunion at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on ‘AGATE’ a research publication for scoping the technical data connection of all of Europe’s Academies of Arts and Science digital repositories.

From 2012/15 he led the research unit ‘Publishing Consortium’ as part of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at Leuphana University, Germany.

In 1994 he co-founded and published Mute magazine — a culture and technology publication, the European counter to Wired magazine, and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher.

He originally studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts, Los Angeles (USA).

https://twitter.com/mrchristian99 @mrchristian99 | Generation Research https://genr.eu/ | The Book Liberation Manifesto http://linkme2.net/1gs

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