« 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 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…
« Ce onzième numéro est placé sous le signe de la réflexivité, comme le sont souvent les travaux les plus intéressants dans le domaine des humanités numériques. Cependant, plutôt que d’examiner à nouveaux frais un thème, une œuvre ou les acquis d’une discipline, il s’agit de dézoomer pour réinscrire la recherche…
« Through an initiative under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Commission helps qualified researchers access internal data of very large online platforms (VLOPs) and search engines (VLOSEs) in the European Union.
These rules will enable independent research into the systemic risks and mitigation measures of VLOPs and VLOSEs.
« Large bibliographic databases highlight tangible and symbolic differences regarding the standards of quality attached to them, underlining diverging incentive structures for small and large academic publishers. To assess the academic differences associated with these, we explore bibliometric data for small publishers’ journals from the Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus.…
« Scientists strive to make their datasets available in open repositories, with the goal that they be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Although it is hard for most investigators to remember all the guiding principles associated with FAIR data, there is one overarching requirement: The data need to be annotated…
