« During this unprecedented global emergency, LIBER calls on European Commissioners, Member State governments, publishers and authors to urgently help libraries, universities and other educational establishments, so that they can continue supplying researchers, teachers and students with access to books, archives and other instructional materials. (…) »
« The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) waslaunched at ECIR in 2014 and was held at ECIR each year since then. Asour workshop lies at the crossroads between IR and NLP, we also ran BIR as ajoint workshop called BIRNDL (Bibliometric enhanced IR and NLP for DigitalLibraries) at the JCDL…
« Springer Nature welcomes the decision from cOAlition S to support Transformative Journals. Subject to acceptability of the yet to be published transparency requirements, it commits to transition the vast majority of its Springer Nature-owned English language journals that are not already Open Access, including Nature and the Nature Research journals,…
« The Coronavirus pandemic has shown how critical it is that research is shared quickly and freely. We can’t go back to “b̶u̶s̶i̶n̶e̶s̶s̶ research as usual” and keep locking up the world’s research behind paywalls. That’s why we’re proud to debut Shareyourpaper.org to make it easy to share your work for…
« The British Library is part of a new £19 million national programme – Towards a National Collection – that will take the first steps towards creating a unified virtual ‘national collection’. Funded by UK Research and Innovation and led by the Arts and Humanities Research Council…
« Nous souhaitons pouvoir relayer les initiatives des éditeurs pour aider le monde académique, et la population en général, à faire face aux conséquences de la crise sanitaire actuelle. Ce recueil d’initiatives peut également avoir un caractère incitatif auprès d’autres éditeurs. (…) »
« In 2019, approximately 69% of journal articles published in the world appeared in journals that charge readers for access [Piwowar et al. 2019]. However, there is broad recognition of the benefits of Open Access (OA) publication, making the results of scientific research freely available to everyone. That is why many…
« This articles shows you a reliable search strategy that you can use in Lens.org to find meta-analysis, systematic reviews, review articles of topics you are interested in regardless of your discipline to help kick start your research. (…) »
« Chronos Hub, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen, and the Royal Danish Library join forces in a new collaborative pilot project. The collaboration kicks off March 31, 2020 and enables researchers at University of Copenhagen to easily identify journals that are compliant with institutional agreements and their funders’ OA…
« (…) In May 2020 Ithaka S+R will launch a study in collaboration with a cohort of libraries to explore the impact of Big Deal cancellations on users, strategies for accessing content, and perceptions of the library’s role in providing access. In this post we share the project’s goals, the preliminary…
