« The Jan 30th OCLC webinar « Practices and Patterns in Research Information Management: Findings from a Global Survey » is now available. (…) »
« The recently published guidance for the implementation of Plan S offers welcome new details on how full and immediate Open Access to research publications would be achieved under this new initiative.
As LIBER stated in September, when Plan S was first announced,…
« En clôture de la convention des directeurs d’unité du C.N.R.S. qui s’est réunie vendredi 1er février 2019 à l’occasion des 80 ans de l’organisme, Frédérique Vidal est revenue sur l’importance de la recherche pour le futur de nos sociétés. (…) »
« Despite improved digital access to scientific publications in the last decades, the fundamental principles of scholarly communication remain unchanged and continue to be largely document-based. The document-oriented workflows in science publication have reached the limits of adequacy as highlighted by recent discussions on the increasing proliferation of scientific literature, the…
« Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In this paper, I review the last 12 months: librarians showing muscle in negotiations, publishers’ Read and Publish deals, and funders determined to force change with initiatives like…
« Début 2018, l’équipe du CCSD a ouvert un chantier de refonte du module statistiques : cela englobe l’amélioration des performances, celle de la fiabilité des indicateurs, l’ergonomie de l’interface d’interrogation et l’exploitation des résultats. (…) »
« Wellcome, in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), have engaged Information Power to explore a range of potential strategies and business models through which learned societies can transition to Open Access and adapt and thrive under…
« The report proposes a vision for the future of scholarly communication; it examines the current system -with its strengths and weaknesses- and its main actors. It considers the roles of researchers, research institutions, funders and policymakers, publishers and other service providers, as well as citizens and puts forward recommendations addressed…
« The Top 10 FAIR Data & Software Global Sprint was held online over the course of two-days (29-30 November 2018), where participants from around the world were invited to develop brief guides (stand alone, self paced training materials), called « Things », that can be used by the research community to understand…
« As part of our 10-year anniversary, we want to tell you the story of how DataCite was founded 10 years ago. Therefore, we approached several people ‘who were there’ to tell you their part of the story. (…) »