« Open Access (OA) publishing, with ambitious movements such as Plan S, is engendering radical changes among academic publishers. Emerging countries need to keep publishing as well as adopt open access to catch up with the changes. Using exclusive data from the Social Sciences & Humanities Peer Awards (SSHPA) database, the…
« Quatre chercheurs et ingénieurs INRAE ont été récompensés au niveau européen par le prix Liber de l’innovation (LIBER Award for Library Innovation) pour leur initiative « Peer Community In » qui promeut des pratiques ouvertes et transparentes de reviewing par les pairs. Rencontre avec Denis Bourguet et Thomas Guillemaud, respectivement…
« A first critical evaluation after 8 months
The swissuniversities Read & Publish Agreement with Elsevier applies to publications submitted to Elsevier from 1 January 2020. However, the agreement and the list of relevant journals were not officially communicated until the end of May 2020. (…) »
« A price freeze on journal subscriptions will not be enough to avoid UK researchers losing access to key academic content, warn three major sector bodies representing academic library directors and higher education managers.
Research Libraries UK (RLUK), SCONUL, the professional association for academic and research libraries and Jisc say that…
« The 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is released today by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy. Since 2003, ARWU has been presenting the world top universities annually based on transparent methodology and objective third-party data. It has been recognized as the precursor of global university rankings and the most trustworthy one. This…
« In this study, network and main path analyses were conducted on 1,856 studies related to text mining, by extracting keywords and citation information from the text of each paper. Our findings indicate that research papers on text mining have been published in 45 academic disciplines in the 1980s and 1990s,…
« New report brings together insights from a survey of scholarly society and university publishers on their current journal production and access approaches and future priorities. (…) »
« Preprints are becoming well established in the life sciences, but relatively little is known about the demographics of the researchers who post preprints and those who do not, or about the collaborations between preprint authors. Here, based on an analysis of 67,885 preprints posted on bioRxiv, we find that some…
« Scientific advance is based on reproducibility, corroboration, and availability of research results. However, large numbers of experimental results that contradict previous work do not get published and many research results are not freely available as they are hidden behind paywalls. As part of COST Action “DARTER”, a network of researchers…
« (…) This paper reports on the lessons learned from the RDA SHARC Interest Group on identifying the processes required to prepare FAIR implementation in various communities not specifically data skilled, and on the procedures and training that must be deployed and adapted to each practice and level of understanding. (…) »
