septembre 2019

03/09/2019

Utrecht University signs ‘San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment’

« Utrecht University signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment. DORA is aimed at assessing research and researchers by focusing less on bibliometric indicators (such as publications and citations) and more on other criteria.
This was announced by President of the Executive Board,

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03/09/2019

OASPA 2019 Annual Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing – Copenhagen, September 24-26 [Conference Program]

« Now in its 11th year, the OASPA annual conference is a major scholarly publishing conference that brings the open access community together to discuss new developments and innovations in scholarly publishing and unite in our shared goal to enable research around the world to be openly accessible. This year, we…

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03/09/2019

Comparison of bibliographic data sources: Implications for the robustness of university rankings

« Universities are increasingly evaluated, both internally and externally on the basis of their outputs. Often these are converted to simple, and frequently contested, rankings based on quantitative analysis of those outputs. These rankings can have substantial implications for student and staff recruitment, research income and perceived prestige of a university.…

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03/09/2019

Assessing the Quality of Scientific Papers

« A multitude of factors are responsible for the overall quality of scientific papers, including readability, linguistic quality, fluency,semantic complexity, and of course domain-specific technical factors. These factors vary from one field of study to another. In this paper, we propose a measure and method for assessing the overall quality of…

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02/09/2019

Quantifier et évaluer les accès à la documentation numérique : indicateurs et pincettes – 2ème partie

« La première partie de cet article posait les questions méthodologiques liées à la manipulation des statistiques d’accès à la documentation numérique, en en listant les principaux écueils. Place maintenant aux évolutions récentes et futures, qui laissent entrevoir un peu d’espoir dans la qualification et la quantification…

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02/09/2019

Wikidata/Strategy/2019

« More than 7 years ago we started the development of Wikidata. We started out with the main goal of building a central data store for Wikipedia. Very quickly we expanded to also covering the other Wikimedia projects. Then came the interest from people outside Wikimedia to use Wikidata’s data to…

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