mars 2019

« The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market was adopted by the European Parliament on 26 March 2019. While EUA welcomes the strengthened exemptions for the education and research activities of European universities, it remains cautious about the agreement’s impact on other sectors and society at large. (…) »

« Last year Copernicus celebrated its 30th anniversary. We had 6 new employees join our team, which means that we now have 54 permanently employed staff members. (…) »

« In October 2018 the Metadata for Machines (M4M) Workshop took place, which assesses the state of metadata practices in data-related communities and stimulates the creation and re-use of FAIR metadata standards and machine-ready metadata templates. (…)

« This paper describes the outcomes of this workshop that has…

« Après une intervention de Francis André, coordinateur de l’alliance RDAFrance, sur le paysage politique et culturel de la Science Ouverte, ont été exposés différents retours d’expériences sur la mise en œuvre de gestion des données et des principes FAIR, de DMP, etc. Professionnels de l’IST, Ingénieurs de Recherche scientifiques ou…

～JUSTICE OA2020 Roadmap～
« Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources JUSTICE）is a consortium created to promote many activities for providing stably and continuously academic information, including e-journal that is essential for education and research activities of the university in Japan. The mission assigned to JUSTICE is to contribute…

« LIBER cautiously welcomes today’s European Parliament vote in favour of new copyright legislation because of the meaningful improvements this brings for education and research. The victory is, however, bittersweet as we remain concerned about the impact of certain aspects of the legislation on information sharing and knowledge creation. (…) »

« The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results. (…) »

« The primary way academics can receive recognition for their work is by being published in specific, well-known journals. This holds back progress in several areas, including rapid dissemination of scientific results, and open access to academic works. At last year’s Innovation Sprint, a team of researchers,…

« La nouvelle version d’Horizon Dashboard offre désormais des informations sur la propriété intellectuelle (PI) et les publications scientifiques collectées par la Commission européenne dans le 7e PC (2007-2013) et Horizon 2020 (2014-2020). (…) »

« (…) Les députés ont adopté la directive en plénière par 348 voix pour, 274 contre et 36 abstentions. Cela marque la fin d’une procédure législative qui a démarré en 2016 pour le Parlement. Il est désormais du ressort des États membres d’approuver la décision du Parlement dans les semaines à…