« The National Contact Point Open Access and Knowledge Unlatched (KU) have de-veloped quality criteria for Open Access books. The aim of the agreement is to pro-vide libraries and publishers with investment security in the future when financing OA books. Criteria have already been established as part of the cooperation, and…
« The presentations from our four OA summer series events this month in London, Glasgow, Manchester and Bristol are below:
OA summer series community events – welcome
« Get all the highlights from 2017: Read what the NeIC projects have achieved and which impact they have made. You will also get to know which new activities that have been set up, and learn about the NeIC strategy planning process to design a new strategy for 2020-2025.
The report…
[*] Ce titre est emprunté à Gordon Dunsire, président du RDA Steering Committee : http://www.rda-rsc.org/sites/all/files/FromBigBangToBeta.pdf
« Le RSC – RDA Steering Committee, comité de pilotage international de RDA – a annoncé en juin l’ouverture du RDA Beta Toolkit, nouvelle version provisoire du RDA Toolkit, accessible…
« Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose – California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID – invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. (…) »
« (…) A DOI is:
Unique – it relates to specific content Persistent – it reliably endures into the future, and Resolvable – it provides access to the information object (which may be open access or subscription access). (…) »« Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aries Systems, a leader in scientific publication workflow solutions headquartered outside Boston, MA. Aries’ offerings are used by journals, books and other publications…
« L’accessibilité aux livres attire de plus en plus l’attention des éditeurs, surtout avec l’émergence de technologies de lecture numérique qui laissent espérer une réduction de la « famine littéraire » qui touche les personnes empêchées de lire. L’édition française se lance dans un projet au long court, le projet OPALINe, pour mettre au…
« First formal release for Module 5, Open Research Software and Open Source, for the Open Science MOOC. (…) »
« The August 2018 issue of Significance Magazine includes a retrospective feature on the R language. (I suggest reading the PDF version, also available for free access.) The article by Nick Thieme looks back at the 25 years since the R language was first conceived…
