« The ways in which journals are indexed online is essential to how they can be searched for and found. Inclusion in certain indexes is also closely linked to quality assessment, with research funders often requiring their grantees to publish in outlets listed in certain indexes. In this post Danielle Padula…
« SEMANTiCS conference is the leading European conference on Semantic Technologies and AI. Researchers, industry experts and business leaders can develop a thorough understanding of trends and application scenarios in the fields of Machine Learning, Data Science, Linked Data and Natural Language Processing. »
« (…) A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed today between MPDL Services, on behalf of Projekt DEAL, and Springer Nature sets the scene for the world’s most comprehensive open access (OA) agreement to be finalised later this year.
Reaching such an understanding has been possible through acknowledgement of the common…
« This video highlights the main features you can expect in the new PubMed, including those already available in PubMed Labs. A timeline is included, as is some background on the new PubMed development process. (…) »
(…) Our Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group is working with LACA to gather evidence about what happens when Technical Protection Measures (TPMs) block researchers from accessing content because they have attempted text and data mining.
« This study examines the indexing of open access journals in the engineering disciplines. The sample used in this study was generated from a title listing pulled from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in late 2013. Indexing data from four prominent commercial databases in the discipline, Compendex, Web of…
« Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
The world’s most-cited researchers, according to newly released data, are a curiously eclectic bunch. Nobel laureates and eminent polymaths rub shoulders with less familiar names, such as Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan from Chennai in India. What…
« How can we measure the state of openness of research? Why are responsible research indicators important? What role do institutional managers play in adopting them?
Among others, these questions will be discussed in this webinar hosted by Charlotte Wien, Head of LIBER’s Innovative…
« Broken links, clunky formats, and outdated platforms have both authors and publishers turning to alternative solutions.
(…) Supplementary files are not the most glamorous part of a scientific paper. They’re tucked away at the end of manuscripts, typically as links to downloadable PDF files. These documents can easily be overlooked…
« Editor’s Note: If scholarly publishers truly consider themselves service providers, then collectively a better job can be done in making the journal submissions easier for authors. Custom templates, arcane requirements, and obtuse author instructions waste the time of scholars and make resubmissions difficult. Today’s post is by Mriganka Awati, Academic…
