26/09/2017
« GeoDeepDive combines library science, computer science, and geoscience to dive into repositories of published text, tables, and figures and return valuable information. (…) »
26/09/2017
« Language experts at Lancaster University and Cambridge University Press have (…) published the largest ever public collection of transcribed British conversations, totalling 11.5 million words of spontaneous British English collected between 2012 and 2016.
The study has revealed that use of the word ‘like’ at the beginning of sentences has…
25/09/2017
« In response to the significant contributions of Danish researchers, all institutions represented by DEFF demand lower prices and increased services from the academic publishers.
During this year’s license negotiations Denmark’s Electronic Research Library (DEFF) will focus on, i.a. lower prices, better and increased services from the publishers and a…
25/09/2017
« During our data mining project for the European Commission, one of the case studies we undertook to test our framework to guide data mining for policy research explored open access (OA) publications in the European context. Specifically, the question we aimed to tackle was whether institutional OA…
25/09/2017
« A recent report from Jisc showcases the upward trend in universities and academics setting up their own presses in an environment increasingly dominated by large commercial publishing houses. Following up on the recommendations arising from this report, authors Janneke Adema and Graham Stone put forward some ideas on how to…
25/09/2017
« Publications : pourquoi les chercheurs ont-ils tant de mal à se reproduire ?
Depuis quand la reproductibilité est elle un critère fondamental pour la science ? La complexité, la spécificité, la précision des méthodes rend-elle plus difficile la reproduction ? Les disciplines sont-elles inégales face à ce problème ?
Michèle Leduc, membre du Comité d’éthique…
25/09/2017
« The Joint Lab Data Science & Open Knowledge explores new ways to access information in large databases
What is the optimal way to search in large databases in the internet, in libraries or archives? How can distributed information be better connected and information flows between organisations be organised smoothly?…
25/09/2017
« Libraries frequently support their open access (OA) fund using money from their collections budget. Interest in assessment of OA funds is arising. Cost per use is a common method to assess library collections expenditures. OA article processing charges (APCs) are a one-time cost for global, perpetual use. Article level metrics…
25/09/2017
« Le Bureau d’Analyse sociétale pour une information citoyenne (Basic) publie une étude sur les impacts sociaux et environnementaux des filières de production du papier et des pratiques de l’édition en France. L’étude dénonce une surproduction éditoriale qui favorise le gaspillage, 20 à 25% de la production annuelle…
22/09/2017
« Edito : Hervé Maisonneuve et Olivier Le Gall
Visions croisées de la publication scientifique
Highlights :
– Rédiger une thèse sur publications
– Les systèmes de mesure académique nuisent à la science (…) »