« The month of February marks five years since we published our first peer-reviewed article in PeerJ – February 12th to be exact (and coincidentally shared with Charles Darwin’s birthday). To celebrate we are waiving all publication fees to any February submission to either PeerJ or PeerJ Computer Science. (…) »
« Nous vous informons que l’Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses n’est plus sous la tutelle du Département de l’Information Scientifique et Technique et Réseau Documentaire (DIST-RD) au sein du Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation. (…) »
« SPARC Europe has released our 2017 Annual Report highlighting efforts and achievements in our work to advance an Open agenda in Europe. (…) »
« In most research projects budget, staff and IT infrastructures are limiting resources. Especially for small-scale registries and cohort studies professional IT support and commercial electronic data capture systems are too expensive. Consequently, these projects use simple local approaches (e.g. Excel) for data capture instead of a central data management including…
« Porté par le pôle numérique de l’Université Bretagne-Loire, le FabLab tour sillonne depuis près d’un an le territoire de la Comue afin d’initier les établissements membres à la fabrication numérique. Avec deux objectifs : éveiller les curiosités et faire naître des projets pédagogiques innovants. (…) »
« The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is, by far, the most discussed bibliometric indicator. Since its introduction over 40 years ago, it has had enormous effects on the scientific ecosystem: transforming the publishing industry, shaping hiring practices and the allocation of resources, and, as a result, reorienting the research activities and…
« The report Opening academic publishing. Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria summarises the development of a standardised scorecard for evaluating the openness of academic publishers. The assessment was completed in January 2018 as part of the Open Science and Research Initiative of the Finnish Ministry of…
« One of the highlights of our first consortia workshop was the opportunity to recognize the great work that our consortia partners have been doing to promote ORCID adoption in their region. Here we share the awards made to five consortia who have gone above and beyond in their support for ORCID. (…) »
