« Change of Symposium format and dates!
The International FAIR Convergence Symposium will now take place as a fully virtual event in the week 30 November – 4 December. Please save the dates!
In order to facilitate the new approach, and in response to a number of enquiries, we…
« Réalisé par le service des Thèses de l’Abes dans le cadre de la mission nationale de signalement des thèses de doctorat, le bilan statistique 2020 fournit un état des lieux complet sur les modes de diffusion des thèses de doctorat soutenues en France. Ce rapport fournit un riche éventail de…
« L’UNESCO a récemment lancé des consultations internationales visant à élaborer une recommandation sur la science ouverte qui sera adoptée par les États membres en 2021. Cette recommandation comprendra une définition commune, un ensemble de valeurs partagées et des propositions d’action. À l’invitation de la Commission canadienne pour l’UNESCO, ce document…
« We witness increased interest in the role of green open access and how it can contribute to the goals of open science. This interest focuses on immediacy (reducing or eliminating embargoes) and usage rights (through open licenses), as these can contribute to wider and faster dissemination, reuse and collaboration in…
« This report is the result of the study on Read & Publish agreements commissioned by EUA on behalf of 25 supporting organisations in May 2019. Carried out by Technopolis Group, the report explores the potential implications of ongoing structural changes in the scholarly publishing system.
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« Repositories increasingly accept research outputs and associated artifacts that underlie reported findings, leading to potential changes in the demand for data curation and repository services. This paper describes a curation tool that responds to this challenge by economizing and optimizing curation efforts. The curation tool is implemented at Yale University’s…
« Objective To determine the presence of a set of pre-specified traditional and non-traditional criteria used to assess scientists for promotion and tenure in faculties of biomedical sciences among universities worldwide. (…) »
« As part of STM’s continued commitment to boost the effective sharing of research data, it was announced today that it had deepened its collaboration with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) – a community-driven initiative launched in 2013 which aims to build the social and technical infrastructure to enable open sharing…
« Le mandat de la gouvernance d’EOSC arrive à son terme le 31 décembre 2020. Conformément à la feuille de route 2020 de son Executive Board, l’EOSC sera constituée en Belgique sous la forme d’une association internationale sans but lucratif.
L’objectif de l’EOSC est de co-construire…
« There are so many questions one can ask. Do more generous green open access policies carve out the value of subscriptions and make them vulnerable to cancellation? Are libraries overly focused on certain criteria and ignoring others? What about the role of the librarian in collection development and building a…
