« Almost 800 journals available via TIB Document Delivery
Talks between the scientific publisher Elsevier and the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), acting as chief negotiator for science organisations, on so-called federal licences within the DEAL project were suspended last week. The suspension of negotiations has led…
“The excessive demands put forward by Elsevier have left us with no choice but to suspend negotiations between the publisher and the DEAL project set up by the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany.” That was the verdict of the lead negotiator and spokesperson for the DEAL Project Steering Committee,…
« A new search engine that aims to connect nonacademics with open-access research will be launched this fall.
Get the Research will connect the public with 20 million open-access scholarly articles. The site will be built by Impactstory — the nonprofit behind browser extension tool Unpaywall…
« Following constructive and forward-looking negotiations at the end of 2017, the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) has finalized the details of their subscription agreement with information analytics business Elsevier, extending our partnership until 2022. The 5-year contract applies to more than 70…
« Voyant Tools est un environnement d’analyse, de lecture et de visualisation de textes numériques. Cette plateforme fait partie d’un projet plus vaste, présenté dans ce livre : Rockwell Geoffrey et Sinclair Stéfan, Hermeneutica. Computer-Assisted Interpretation in the Humanities, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2016.
…« L’UNESCO et Inria donneront le 7 juin le coup d’envoi de Softwareheritage.org, une initiative mondiale visant à créer une bibliothèque universelle rassemblant les codes sources des programmes informatiques depuis les débuts de l’ère numérique.
Un an après la signature de leur partenariat, le lancement, qui aura lieu au siège de…
« Libraries have led the charge to open up access to the scholarly literature. We want to help turn that leadership into leverage to reduce costs, to save staff time, to improve library services, and to open up more even content and infrastructure. (…)
We’re now happy to introduce you…
« Depuis le mois de mars, les articles de la plateforme ISTEX sont signalés sur FOCUS par un bouton d’accès au texte intégral « Accessible via ISTEX ». Ce sont plus de 21 millions de ressources de 19 éditeurs internationaux et francophones qui sont donc dorénavant disponibles d’un simple clic sur…
« The European Commission has released a new set of recommendations to the Member States that offer guidance and propose the best way to implement and support open science practices. (…)
OpenAIRE welcomes these new sets of recommendations, and the commitment to open science that the EC wishes…
« (…) the Commission further develops Open Access policy by updating the 2012 Recommendation to Member States on access to and preservation of scientific information. It advises Member States on how to develop open access policies. This Recommendation has been reviewed to better reflect developments…
