« (…) PREreview seeks to diversify peer review by crowdsourcing preprint feedback to improve the quality of published scientific output, and to train early-career researchers in how to constructively review other scientists’ work.
Together, we want to push for a radical change in how researchers engage with scholarly output, when…
« I’ve had a number of inspiring DMP discussions over the last few weeks, both Australian and European based. (…)
Australian DMP tools are very impressive and there are a lot of ideas I plan to take back to inform DMPonline developments. I really like the API plug and play…
« To promote open access the DFG works closely with partners in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. As part of the Digital Information Alliance Initiative, the DFG is supporting the introduction of an inalienable second publication right. Through organisations and networks such as Knowledge Exchange, Science Europe and…
« Several publishers are concerned about the timeline for implementing Plan S, the European initiative that will make all research papers free to access (see Nature 561, 17–18; 2018). Their main concern is whether their markets will be ready for a ‘pay…
« Objective. To analyse quantitatively the articles published during 2008_2017 about the academic social networking site ResearchGate. Methods. A scoping bibliometric review of documents retrieved using Google Scholar was conducted, limited to publications that contained the word « ResearchGate » in their title and were published from 2008 to 2017. Results. The search…
« Le recueil d’idées « Vision Globale » de l’IFLA héberge à présent des milliers d’idées partagées par des bibliothécaires du monde entier. Il constitue une ressource dynamique pour nourrir des idées et des actions et résulte des contributions des professionnels de la bibliothèque et de l’information du monde…
« The American Chemical Society, the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (German Chemical Society) and the Royal Society of Chemistry today announce their partnership with the Chinese Chemical Society and the Chemical Society of Japan as co-owners to support the strategic and financial development of ChemRxiv, the premier preprint…
« Welcome to the PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference, presented by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) in partnership with the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Since 2007, PKP’s bi-annual conference has brought together participants from…
« Because the Impact Factor (IF) is an average quantity and most journals are small, IFs are volatile. We study how a single paper affects the IF using data from 11639 journals in the 2017 Journal Citation Reports. We define as volatility the IF gain (or loss) caused by a single…
« Le Comité pour la science ouverte (CoSO) a pour mission de définir une politique de science ouverte, d’en assurer le développement à l’échelle nationale et internationale, et d’en coordonner la mise en œuvre à l’échelle des établissements et des communautés scientifiques. (…)
L’appel à manifestation d’intérêt a vocation à…
