août 2025

« Metascience 2025 brings together researchers, funders, policymakers, and innovators to explore how the research process can be improved. (…) »

« The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has earned recognition in Crossref’s Participation Reports for its exceptional metadata coverage among large publishing members––an achievement built on intentional change, technical investment, and collaborative work. In this Q&A, the ASM team shares what that journey looked like,…

« This study analyzes user behavior on OpenEdition, a French open access platform for the humanities and social sciences, which includes four services: Journals, Books, Hypothèses (blogs), and Calenda (events), plus a search engine. Using server logs from October 2023 and 2024, the research investigates how users interact with and navigate…

« This article uses a recent retroactive open access project undertaken by an Australian university library to reframe attitudes and approaches to author self-archiving. In addition to the view that open access is something to be sought for new research outputs – at the time of publication or immediately after an…

« Academic libraries play an increasingly crucial role in providing services, information, education, and infrastructure support related to research data management (RDM). This systematic review aims to provide a comprehensive and critical analysis of the state of RDM services offered by academic libraries worldwide. (…) »

« Open-access (OA) publications are peer-reviewed research articles that are accessible online to any reader without requiring a journal subscription or payment.​ These publications allow global researchers and other readers access to scientific research and have reshaped the structure of scientific publishing. Government and private funders, institutions, and scientists…

« The Royal Society sets out plan to move journals to full open access in 2026 through Subscribe to Open
The Royal Society has agreed plans that would make its journals fully open access in 2026 by adopting the ‘Subscribe to Open’ model.
Under plans agreed in July 2025,…

« The 54th LIBER Annual Conference took place from 2-4 July 2025 at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne (Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire Lausanne – BCU Lausanne) in Switzerland. Let’s have a look back at the highlights from the week that brought together research librarians and information professionals from Europe…

« Pour célébrer les 30 ans de l’inauguration du site François-Mitterrand, Chroniques revient sur la création de la BnF, portée par une volonté de modernisation et d’ouverture : Gilles Pécout, président de la BnF, dialogue avec Pascal Ory, historien, et Dominique Perrault, architecte du site. Ce numéro anniversaire retrace également trois…

« What does progress in open science look like? On 7–8 July, global stakeholders met at UNESCO in Paris and online to explore this question at the Open Science: Monitoring Progress, Assessing Impact Conference. (…) »