août 2019

« LIBSENSE is building communities of practice and strengthening local and national services to support open science and research in Africa. (…)

LIBSENSE is led by the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN) in collaboration with sister regional African RENs (ASREN and UbuntuNet Alliance). Other participating partners include…

« The SprintCon is the pre-conference of the Twenty-First International Conference on Grey Literature (GL21).

We build upon the experience of writing and refining Wikibooks, participating and facilitating Book Sprints, and creating other kind of open knowledge resources for many different purposes and audiences. We value…

« This work is devoted to the study of applicability of modern methods of machine learning to the task of automatic classification of scientific articles and abstracts. For this purpose, the study of such models of machine learning as artificial neural networks, random forest, logistic regression, and support vector machine was…

« (…) In this paper, we present a visual analytics system that augments the manual annotation process by automatically suggesting which text fragments to annotate next. The accuracy of those suggestions is improved over time by incorporating linguistic knowledge and language modeling to learn a measure of argument similarity from user…

« There is a new class of scholarly journal. These journals are not open-access. You can’t purchase their articles individually. Individuals cannot subscribe to them. The only way to access their content is through a very small number of academic libraries.

I call these Super Closed Access Journals. Their purpose is clearly…

« La publication aux Presses universitaires de Provence de l’ouvrage La Diffusion numérique des données en SHS. Guide des bonnes pratiques éthiques et juridiques en novembre 2018 a été l’aboutissement d’un travail collectif pour apporter des réponses concrètes aux questions qui se posent à toutes celles et…

« A l’occasion du 50e anniversaire de l’EPFL, j’ai voulu donner à la science ouverte et reproductible la place importante qui lui revient.
J’ai choisi de convier un groupe de chercheuses et chercheurs d’exception, ainsi que des acteurs de la politique de la science, pour leur demander de partager leurs…

« Today, we’re announcing a shift in how SPARC supports OpenCon to reflect the OpenCon community’s evolution. Instead of hosting a global conference in 2019, we will focus on laying the long-term foundation for the OpenCon community, and will host a reconfigured global meeting in 2020. This decision was driven by…

« Je suis chercheure d’or… mais en fait je cherche de l’or dans les textes »

« Following on from last week’s popular webinar entitled How should scholarly societies transition to open access?, we asked our speakers to summarise their talks by offering a few key takeaways, which you can find below. This may be useful for those who missed it or wish to share with colleagues.…