« 14 scientific institutions have joined the national opt-in consortium for the central payment processing of APCs for articles of all journals of the open-access publishing house Copernicus Publications. This is an important signal for the open-access community and libraries because it makes it clear that open-access transformation – in this…
« The University of Helsinki’s own open access publisher Helsinki University Press (HUP) has refined its publishing and service processes and is preparing to publish its first books this year. HUP will also publish scientific journals in the future. (…) »
« Le rapport financier de 2017 du groupe PLOS a été rendu public en décembre 2018 (rapport des auditeurs le 30 avril 2018). Les données principales sont sur le site de PLOS, et des commentaires sur divers blogs, dont surtout Scholarly Kitchen le 3 janvier…
« Last week Wiley and Projekt DEAL announced a transformative Publish-and-Read agreement that will, by a conservative estimate, giving the world at least 30,000 additional open access articles over the next three years. Under this agreement, articles by authors from participating institutions…
« Portage se réjouit de l’occasion qui lui est donnée d’apporter une contribution à l’examen de la Loi sur le droit d’auteur par le Comité permanent de l’industrie, des sciences et de la technologie. Portage est un réseau national de gestion des données de recherche (GDR) rassemblant le milieu des bibliothèques,…
« Please take the Exposing Data Management Plans Survey (open til March 25, 2019) and please promote participation in the survey.
The purpose of this survey is to conduct a needs analysis related to sharing or publishing data management plan content, or extracts, with others who may help implement…
« arXiv provides open access to 1.5 million e-prints in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Electrical Engineering and Systems Science, and Economics, with 228 million downloads from all over the world in 2018. The repository received 140,616 new submissions, a 14% increase from 2017, with…
« The new year begins with good news: The International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) and its partners announce the founding of a new scientometric open access journal. The journal will be managed by the former board members of the renowned Journal of Informetrics,…
« Research Data Management at Bielefeld University is considered as a cross-cutting task among central facilities and research groups at the faculties. While initially started as project “Bielefeld Data Informium” lasting over seven years (2010–2015), it is now being expanded by setting up a Competence Center for Research Data. The evolution…
« On January 14, 2019, the Open, Public, Electronic, and Necessary (OPEN) Government Data Act was signed into law. The OPEN Government Data Act was included in the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act (H.R.4174) as Title II. The open data proposal will require federal agencies to publish their information online, using…
