« OCLC, working closely with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to enhance the underlying infrastructure of the OCLC WorldCat database and CRL’s Print Archives Preservation Registry (PAPR) to accommodate and make accessible actionable data for…
« From June, 2018, the Lancet family of journals are starting a 6-month trial in collaboration with the freely accessible preprint platform SSRN, which has been part of Elsevier since May, 2016. With this pilot, we are interested to see whether health and medical researchers are ready for…
« As part of its negotiations with Wolters Kluwer to extend the contract for legal and fiscal professional literature, the VSNU has agreed open-access terms. The 27 academic journals in Wolters Kluwer’s collection of otherwise mainly professional literature will be subject to new and explicit open-access embargo rules. The parties have…
« L’URFIST de Rennes, la MSHB, le SCD Rennes 2 et la MSH Ange Guépin nous ont invités le vendredi 15 juin 2018 à une journée d’étude, à la MSHB, sur le thème : « Les chercheurs…
« Depuis plusieurs années, la thématique de l’intégrité scientifique s’impose progressivement dans le monde académique : la quasi-totalité des établissements de l’ESR a signé la « Charte de déontologie des métiers de la recherche » en janvier 2015 ; depuis l’arrêté de mai 2016, les Ecoles doctorales sont tenues de donner…
« Ce MOOC va vous permettre de comprendre les enjeux éthiques de la science ainsi que la responsabilité des chercheurs et des institutions scientifiques. (…) »
« (…) The topic of ‘Big Deals’ was discussed at the workshop ‘Challenging the current business models in academic publishing – Accelerators and obstacles to the Open Access transition’, organised on 26 and 27 April 2017 by Science Europe in collaboration with the European University Association (EUA) and the Association of…
« Big changes have come to the Geolocation plugin for Omeka Classic with today’s release of version 3.0! (…) »
« The Open Science Monitor tracks the development of open science trends in Europe.
Initially launched in 2017 to support the EU policies, the OSM has been revamped in May 2018 with updated data and visual identity. But open science is continuously developing, and over the next months,…
« On 11 June 2018, the High Level Expert Group on the European Open Science Cloud and the FAIR Data Expert Group organised together with the European Commission the second meeting of stakeholders – the EOSC Summit 2018. It followed the very successful EOSC Summit in…