avril 2019

« (…) This blog, rather than looking to give a comprehensive overview of the legislation, looks at the battles that libraries have, together, won, the bullets we have dodged, and the questions that remain. These last will be important, with the effort to ensure the right rules for libraries now moving…

« In this paper, we present COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (http://opencitations.net/index/coci). COCI is the first open citation index created by OpenCitations, in which we have applied the concept of citations as first-class data entities, and it contains more than 445 million DOI-to-DOI…

« Selon les prévisions effectuées à partir des résultats du baccalauréat, des choix d’orientation observés les années précédentes et des premières informations disponibles sur l’année en cours, les inscriptions à la rentrée 2018 auraient augmenté de 2,1 % sur l’ensemble de l’enseignement supérieur, soit + 55 000 étudiants environ. À la…

« On Friday, Ithaka S+R released the latest cycle of our long-standing US Faculty Survey. This survey has tracked the changing research, teaching, and publishing practices of higher education faculty members on a triennial basis since 2000. Here, we highlight some of the key findings around open…

« In this paper, we comparatively analyze, present and discuss the results from a survey on increasing the visibility of research achievements in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) that was carried out at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2016 and 2017. Covering four…

« Rédigé par des chercheur.e.s, des professionnel.le.s de l’information et des juristes, l’ouvrage place au cœur des questionnements la communauté de la recherche : que doit faire le.la chercheur.e quand il.elle édite, enregistre un entretien ou une conférence, photographie un monument ou une personne ? Comment partager…

« At a session organized by UNESCO on 8th April at the WSIS Forum 2019 in Geneva,  coordinators of six platforms – AmeliCA, AJOL, Érudit, J-STAGE, OpenEdition,…

*co-located with the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2019)

« The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) at ECIR tackles issues related to academic search, at the crossroads between Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. BIR is a hot topic investigated by both academia (e.g., ArnetMiner, CiteSeerχ, Doc-Ear) and the…

« The 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) was held in Cologne, Germany, during April 14–18, 2019, and brought together hundreds of researchers from Europe and abroad. The conference was organized by GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and the University of Duisburg-Essen—in cooperation with the British Computer Society’s Information…

« This year’s conference theme is “All the User Needs”. The aim is to provide the attendees an opportunity to explore and reflect on the ways repositories interact with their users. In addition to the overall user-centered theme there are also a number of sub-themes, which address many of the current…