« More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals, according to reporting undertaken by German public broadcasters NDR and WDR together with the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and additional national and international media outlets. Reporters found that researchers from German universities, institutes and federal agencies have frequently published articles,…
« Yesterday, the US National Academies announced publication of a new report called “Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for the 21st Century”. This is a broad-ranging report about how the practice and communication of science is changing in the digital world. You can find the link to the report,…
« There is a quiet revolution taking place in scientific publishing and almost everyone I speak to thinks it’s long overdue. One aspect of the revolution is ‘preprints’, the practise of making scientific papers available to any experts for scrutiny before journal peer review and publication. (…) »
« (…) The aim of the interactive video framework is to offer a point of reference for all those seeking information on the topic of the Open Access monographs. In fact, the collections with the hyperlinks of the hypervideo will be constantly updated, so that the hypervideo present a selection of…
« Almost 800 journals available via TIB Document Delivery
Talks between the scientific publisher Elsevier and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), acting as chief negotiator for science organisations, on so-called federal licences within the DEAL project were suspended last week. The suspension of negotiations has led…
« Travaillant en milieu universitaire, j’ai pu constater que les chercheurs se posent beaucoup de questions quant aux conséquences de l’entrée en vigueur du RGPD (Règlement Général de Protection des Données [1]) sur les activités de recherche scientifique, lorsqu’elles impliquent des traitements de données personnelles.
La réponse…
« Altmetrics have been proposed as a way to assess the societal impact of research. Although altmetrics are already in use as impact or attention metrics in different contexts, it is still not clear whether they really capture or reflect societal impact. This study is based on altmetrics, citation counts, research…
« Le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, met en ligne la 11e édition de L’état de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Point de repère annuel et chiffré du système français d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche, cet ouvrage présente au moyen de graphiques, tableaux illustratifs et…
« LIBER’s 47th Annual Conference in Lille, France brought 440 research library professionals together for a week of discussions focused on doing more with Open Science, and on related topics such as metrics, research data management and copyright reform.
Presentations are on the conference website and in…« Paywall: the Business of Scholarship is a documentary which focuses on the need for open access to research and science, questions the rationale behind the $25.2 billion a year that flows into for-profit academic publishers, examines the 35-40% profit margin associated with the top academic publisher Elsevier and looks at…
