« (…) On 10th July our multidisciplinary team of dedicated volunteers checked-in at a hotel in the Hague, Netherlands, to participate in a three-day book sprint. (…) Here, we share our book sprint success story and reasons for why we advocate collaborative writing.
Book sprint motivation
Our motivation to write the…
« RDA Europe 4.0 Social Sciences Ambassador Ricarda Braukman has analysed the RDA Working and Interest Groups and identified those initiatives of particular relevance to social scientists. (…) »
« COAR is pleased to announce the release of the Resource Type Vocabulary, Version 2. This vocabulary, which is now available in 15 languages, provides standardized terms for different types of content contained in a repository. (…) »
« Much has been said about Plan S, both encouraging and critical. The relative preponderance of criticism – notably by academics, who ought to be key beneficiaries – has been frustrating to the plan’s backers, who see it as a long-overdue concerted effort to support a global…
« L’édition 2019 de l’état de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (E.E.S.R.I.) vient de paraître. Point de repère annuel et chiffré du système français d’enseignement supérieur et de recherche, cet ouvrage présente, au moyen de graphiques, tableaux illustratifs et commentaires, les dernières données de synthèse disponibles sur l’ensemble…
« The following is a statement from the Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses welcoming Cornell University to the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) initiative, which includes more than 60 university presses and 15 university members. (…) »
« Welcome to our Scholars Portal Dataverse blog, where we will be sharing news and updates about the Dataverse platform and service, including development work. Our first blog post provides an update about the development project « Dataverse for the Canadian Research Community« ! This project is funded by
« Scholar Metrics provide an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, we are releasing the 2019 version of Scholar Metrics. This release covers articles published in 2014–2018 and includes citations from all articles that were…
« (…) In this article we look at the main features of the existing monograph publication and distribution ecosystem, and question the suitability of this for open access monographs. We look specifically at some of the key economic characteristics of the monograph publishing market and consider their implications for new infrastructures…
« Data and case studies covering access to scientific publications. Bibliometric data as well as well as data on the policies of journals and funders are available. (…) »
