« Overlay journals are characterised by their articles being published on open access repositories, often already starting in their initial preprint form as a prerequisite for submission to the journal prior to initiating the peer-review process. In this study we aimed to identify currently active overlay journals and examine their characteristics.…
« The annual Dataverse Community Meeting is an opportunity to build, grow, and enrich the global community. Like the open-source Dataverse product itself, the activities of the Dataverse Community Meetings are community-driven. Over three days of presentations, workshops, and working group meetings we aim to promote and learn about behavioral…
« UKRI has published updated information to support funded research organisations and researchers to meet its new open access policy. Peer-reviewed research articles that acknowledge UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding have been required to comply with UKRI’s open access policy since 1 April 2022. The following guidance has been updated,…
« Science Europe is organising a conference on Open Science on 18 and 19 October 2022. The event will bring together institutional leaders, researchers at all stages of their careers, and experts from the field to discuss two main questions:
Is Open Science ready to become the norm in research? How…
There have been many initiatives to combat the distorting effect of research assessment exercises. The latest looks like it might work (…)
The Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment, announced on 20 July and open for signatures on 28 September, is perhaps the…
« Organisées chaque année à Montpellier, les Journées Abes sont un moment privilégié de rencontres avec les professionnels des réseaux documentaires de l’ESR coordonnés par l’Abes. Elles rassemblent chaque année environ 500 professionnels de la documentation, de l’IST et des bibliothèques de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche. (…) »
« Au sommaire de cette lettre estivale 2022 : • Focus sur les nouvelles recommandations de l’Ofis qui visent à consolider l’indépendance des référents à l’intégrité scientifique • Retour sur la déclaration de la 7ème conférence mondiale de l’Intégrité scientifique à Cape Town • Entretien avec Zoë Hammatt, consultante en intégrité…
« L’information scientifique constitue un apport essentiel des chercheurs et la principale ressource pour l’innovation technologique. L’UNESCO soutient et encourage le libre accès (OA) à l’information scientifique – la mise à disposition en ligne pour tous de l’information savante, sans la plupart des barrières imposées par le droit d’auteur et le…
« The FAIR data principles are rapidly becoming a standard through which to assess responsible and reproducible research. In contrast to the requirements associated with the Interoperability principle, the requirements associated with the Accessibility principle are often assumed to be relatively straightforward to implement. Indeed, a variety of different tools assessing…