« L’innovation est essentielle à la croissance de notre économie et du progrès de notre société. Avec ses chercheurs et ses étudiants, la France investit dans deux sources d’innovateurs. Pour faire de la France un leader de l’innovation, le ministère s’engage sur trois enjeux stratégiques : l’accélération du développement de l’entreprenariat…
« (…) Les humanités numériques, ces pratiques à la croisée de l’informatique et des sciences humaines et sociales, ne se sont que trop peu préoccupées de questions propres au design. Au-delà d’une approche utilitaire, la constitution d’archives et de corpus de connaissances en ligne est pourtant l’occasion de s’interroger sur les…
« The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community.
In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join them) are banding together to impose Open Access (OA) publishing on their researchers. Most contentiously, the funders plan to cap…
« More and more funders and publishers require research data to be made available in appropriate repositories, but determining which repository to choose or what counts as an “appropriate repository” can take up a lot of time. What is a researcher to do?
Last year the American Geophysical Union (AGU) convened…
« The Affinity Map showing cross-laboratory collaboration among faculty at EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) is now available to the general public. One of its creators will soon be heading off to MIT on a grant to expand his idea to a global scale. (…)
ENAC’s Affinity…
« (…) Our mission
Collect, preserve and share the source code of all the software that is available
Past, present and future
Preserving the past, enhancing the present, preparing the future (…) »
« (…) ‘Feisty and febrile academic publishing’: The University Press Redux II
Anthony Cond and Lara Speicher
University presses have too often suffered because of a diluted form of the same thinking, resulting in a largely under‐resourced sector, yet one that retains a formidable reputation among academic faculty for…
« Self-archiving in Institutional Repositories (IRs) is playing a central role in the success of the Open Access initiatives. Deposited documents are more visible and probably they get more downloads and citations, but making them freely available in a local repository is not enough. Social tools, both public and academic targeting,…
« WorldCat, an aggregate database of library catalogues worldwide, was primarily set up to aid libraries in carrying out their work in areas such as cataloguing or resource sharing. But the information it carries about much of the world’s accumulated published output is also a a unique source of information for…
« The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), like many other research funders, requires its grantees to make papers available via open access (OA). This article investigates the effect of publishing in OA journals and international collaboration within and between European and sub-Saharan African countries on citation impact and…
