BioResources and Technology Division - BRT

🔍 Beyond Keywords: Rethinking How We Explore Scientific Knowledge

📚 As scientific output continues to grow, accessing relevant knowledge is becoming increasingly complex. BRT PhD student Antoine Bercy presents an innovative scientific database designed to improve how literature is explored, classified, and accessed, particularly within anaerobic digestion and biogas research.

💡 Moving beyond traditional keyword-based searches, his approach highlights how structured data, clearer classification, and interactive tools can help researchers navigate vast amounts of information more efficiently, while addressing key challenges such as inconsistent terminology and the reproducibility crisis.

🔬 This work closely aligns with BRT’s involvement in the OSIRIS project, where we contribute to advancing research transparency and reproducibility across the scientific community.

🌍 As science faces increasing pressure to remain transparent, accessible, and reliable, modernising how we search and share knowledge is not just an upgrade, it’s essential for tackling global challenges.

🔗 Read the full blog here: https://biogas.czu.cz/en/r-19017-team-news/beyond-keywords-improving-how-we-explore-scientific-knowledg.html

🌍 BRT Around the World | OSIRIS

The OSIRIS project brings together partners across Europe to address a key challenge in research and innovation: improving reproducibility. By promoting Open Science practices and evidence-based approaches, the project works to strengthen research quality, reliability, and trust in scientific outcomes.

🔬 OSIRIS focuses on understanding the underlying causes of low reproducibility and testing practical solutions in real research environments. By working with researchers, institutions, and stakeholders, the project aims to support a broader shift towards more transparent and robust research systems.

📢 Within the project, BRT, representing the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, leads Work Package 6 on Dissemination and Communication. This includes raising awareness of OSIRIS activities and results, engaging stakeholders, and supporting the long-term visibility and impact of the project’s outputs including the OSIRIS policy briefs and the Ten Tales of Reproducibility.

⚙ This work supports a broader transition towards more transparent, reliable, and impactful research systems.

🔗 Learn more: https://biogas.czu.cz/en/r-19036-projekty-brt-bezici/osiris-open-science-to-increase-reproducibility-in-science.html