« L’Institut de la statistique du Québec annonce aujourd’hui l’ouverture d’un guichet de services pour simplifier et améliorer l’accès aux données détenues par les ministères et organismes du gouvernement pour les chercheurs associés à un organisme public. Cette mesure s’inscrit dans la volonté du gouvernement de créer un environnement favorable à…
« Open data has been identified as a fundamental resource for governments, businesses and civil society. In 2015, we launched the European Data Portal to improve access to open data from European countries and to foster high-quality public data publication at national, regional, and local level. Within…
« Housing over 61,000 concepts, SAGE Publishing’s new Terminology Service is a valuable tool to aid researchers in understanding and exploring key concepts.
It launches with the SAGE Social Science Thesaurus, a multidisciplinary vocabulary of the most important concepts in the social sciences that combines concepts, relationships and definitions. Most of…
« The OpenAIRE Advance and GÉANT GN4-3 projects have today signed an agreement to expand their existing collaboration and ensure that synergies across the projects are optimised, ensuring the seamless delivery of services to Europe’s researchers. (…) »
« EUA has prepared a set of guidelines for the university sector to influence the national implementation of the EU Copyright Directive. (…) »
« Green and gold are artificial distinctions, mainly driven by the technical and business separation between publishing platforms and institutional and thematic repositories operated by research institutions or research communities. Building on two efforts that were presented last year at Open Repositories in 2018, (1) Next Generation Repositories functionalities and (2)…
« We present a large-scale analysis of the accuracy of citation data in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The analysis is based on citations given in publications in Elsevier journals. We reveal significant data quality problems for both databases. Missing and incorrect references are important problems in Web of…
« A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.
The survey looks at researchers’ motivations for publishing a book, and analyses the parameters and key drivers which influence academics to publish OA or not. The white paper also…
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