« In his guest contribution for the Tagespiegel newspaper, Martin Stratmann pleads for open access to become the rule in scientific publishing. This is essential for both research and innovation – and, as studies show, it can be achieved without additional financial resources.
Knowledge goods are presented more and more in…
« As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals. ResearchGate, a Berlin-based startup that provides a professional network for the scientific community to connect with each other to share and discuss…
« The German Psychological Society developed and adopted new recommendations for data sharing that fully embrace openness, transparency and scientific integrity. Key message is that raw data are an essential part of an empirical publication and must be openly shared. The recommendations also give very practical advice on how to implement…
« A stand-off in which dozens of German universities declined to pay for access to journals from publishing giant Elsevier has been partially resolved.
For more than 40 days, thousands of scientists were cut off from Elsevier journals. But the Dutch publisher said on 13 February that it had…
« The Max Planck Digital Library and Taylor & Francis Group have signed an agreement which enables researchers based in Max Planck institutes to publish open access in 2,390 journals, under a centrally funded arrangement. This applies to peer-reviewed papers in full and hybrid Taylor & Francis Group journals, including Routledge…
« Just before the end of 2016 the German Federal Ministry of Interior presented the first Open Data act. This act, which amends the E-Government Act, intends to make the publication of Open Government Data an ‘Open by default’ requirement for the German government. By including Open…
« Les présidents des académies des sciences de France, d’Allemagne et de Grande-Bretagne ont remis officiellement à monsieur Carlos Moedas, Commissaire européen à la recherche, le 12 décembre 2016 à Bruxelles, une déclaration commune intitulée : « Déclaration sur les publications scientifiques par trois académies nationales – Académie des sciences,…
« L’ANSSI et son homologue allemand, le Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnikle (BSI) coopèrent depuis de nombreuses années au renforcement de la sécurité du numérique en France, en Allemagne et dans tout l’espace européen. Le nouveau label commun European Secure Cloud, pour les prestataires de services d’informatique en…
« Dans le cadre du projet DEAL, initié par l’Alliance des organisations de recherche allemandes et visant la mise en place de licences nationales avec des grands éditeurs scientifiques, un premier retour a été publié sur les négociations en cours avec Elsevier pour l’année 2017,…
« Half day workshop during the TPDL 2016 Conference in Hannover, Germany, September 8th, 2016.
The aim of the workshop is to encourage debate between scientists, publishers and libraries on the use of videos as a method of scientific communication, and their potential. The workshop encourages participants to…
