« The Max Planck Digital Library is pleased to announce the new research project bloxberg: the first trusted research infrastructure
Twelve exclusively selected leading research organizations from ten different countries came together to form the global Blockchain Consortium for Science – bloxberg
(…) The bloxberg infrastructure is a secure global blockchain…
« Project Deal, a consortium of libraries, universities, and research institutes in Germany, has unveiled an unprecedented deal with a major journal publisher—Wiley—that is drawing close scrutiny from advocates of open access to scientific papers; (…) »
« In order to enhance researchers’ commitment to research data management it has to be ensured that their activities do not go unnoticed. Current Research Information systems (CRIS) play an important role in the showcase of the research outputs of individual researchers as well as of research institutions. (…)
At Leibniz…
« Full text of the “Publish&Read” agreement between Project DEAL and Wiley signed 15th January 2019. (…) »
« Content and structure of GERiT
The German research landscape is large and varied. The information portal GERiT – German Research Institutions – provides an overview of approximately 25,000 institutes at German universities and non-university research institutions, organised by subject area as well as by geographical and structural criteria. GERiT…
« 14 scientific institutions have joined the national opt-in consortium for the central payment processing of APCs for articles of all journals of the open-access publishing house Copernicus Publications. This is an important signal for the open-access community and libraries because it makes it clear that open-access transformation – in this…
« (…) While libraries and funding bodies in German-speaking countries have been negotiating Open Access Agreements with large publishers for years through initiatives such as Project DEAL, small and medium-sized publishers are rarely involved. This focus on major publishers tends to promote market concentration at the expense of…
« Wiley and Projekt DEAL establish groundbreaking partnership for Germany to pilot new publishing models, better enable researchers to create and disseminate knowledge through Wiley’s journals, and continue to provide participating German institutions access to Wiley’s portfolio of academic journals. (…) »
« Today Springer and Labster announce their partnership to bring engaging lab simulations to the thousands of students using Springer resources. Springer and Labster will through this partnership shape the future of science education as they together launch new learning material that will change the way students learn science. (…) »
« The position paper “Author Identification Using the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)” was published within the framework of the third ORCID DE workshop on 8 November in Bielefeld.
Extract from the full text (p.8, our translation)
The position paper first explains the various challenges of author identification from…
