« In view of the persistently dynamic changes which digitization entails for all areas of science, the need for a structure for networking, coordinating and taking action as exemplified by the Alliance Initiative remains as high as ever. The successful cooperation of Science Organizations in Germany in the Alliance Initiative will…
« À un moment où la nature exacte et l’organisation des relations futures entre le Royaume-Uni et l’Union européenne sont encore incertaines, les académies des sciences d’Allemagne, de France et du Royaume-Uni, à savoir la Royal Society, la Leopoldina et l’Académie des sciences, ont réaffirmé ensemble leur confiance dans l’unité de…
« Authoring collaboratively a Handbook for Open Science Training in just five days
From 12 to 16 February 2018, FOSTER (Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond) and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology will bring together Open…
« SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries) is an annual conference focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics…
« Dans la cadre de la mise en œuvre du European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), qui vise à créer une plate-forme ouverte pour l’échange de données de recherche au niveau européen, l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas ont annoncé la création un bureau international pour soutenir l’initiative GO FAIR, le Bureau international d’appui…
« Negotiations to reduce journal prices and promote open access are progressing slowly
Around 200 German universities will lose their subscriptions to Elsevier journals within weeks, because negotiations have failed to end a long-term contract dispute. (…)
Negotiators with ‘Project DEAL’, a consortium of university libraries and research institutes, have been…
« Nous remercions Hanjo Hamann d’avoir eu la gentillesse de nous proposer une actualisation du post qu’il avait écrit l’année dernière sur l’Open Access en Allemagne. Il constate l’émergence de modifications de comportement notamment d’éditeurs juridiques suite à l’adoption de la loi allemande qui a inspiré l’Article 30 de la loi…
« On 12 October 2017, EDP Sciences signed a partnership agreement with the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) – German National Library of Science and Technology to support the publication of conference proceedings in a number of STM fields.
The agreement will enable the TIB to publish all German…
« The Spoken Wikipedia project unites volunteer readers of Wikipedia articles. Hundreds of spoken articles in multiple languages are available to users who are – for one reason or another – unable or unwilling to consume the written version of the article. We turn this speech resource into a time-aligned corpus,…
« Project DEAL of the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany and the publisher Springer Nature are negotiating a forward-looking model for publishing and reading scientific literature. After the latest meeting, the spokesman for the DEAL Project Steering Committee and President of the University Rectors Conference, Prof. Dr. Horst Hippler, and…
