« Academic publishing faces a number of challenges that can have a negative impact on science and the humanities. In particular, research assessment based on metrics can provide problematic incentives, thereby preventing the system of academic publication and research as a whole from developing in a way that is appropriate to…
« Academic publishing has witnessed major changes in the context of digitalisation. Driven by the academic community, the changeover to open access (OA) for research results has greatly progressed over the last twenty years, even though it has by no means been implemented across the board. When the “transformation” of academic…
« On 17 March 2022 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) signed an action plan to promote science-driven open access publishing infrastructures. The “Action Plan for Diamond Open Access” is an initiative by Science Europe, the cOAlition S, OPERAS (a European infrastructure for open science communication in the social sciences…
« Open Research Data
Recommendations for Policies of the Helmholtz Centers on Research Data Management
Open Research Software
« Advocating for improved evaluation of research performance and researchers
The outputs from scientific research are many and varied, including: research articles reporting new knowledge, data, reagents, and software; intellectual property; and highly trained young scientists. Funding agencies, institutions that employ scientists, and scientists themselves, all have a desire, and…
« The Open Access Monitor .records the publication output of German academic institutions in scientific journals. Through analyses of subscription fees and (open access) publication fees, the transition of the publishing system towards an open access system is monitored and supported
For…
« More and more researchers require their results to be openly available (Kramer and Bosman, 2016). However, it can turn out complex and time-consuming to realize this simple premise: publishers offer a variety of payment models to secure their revenue after the subscription model is discontinued. Academic institutions and funders…
« The Open Science Policy of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen Nürnberg (FAU) gives FAU members guidance and recommendations for opening up academic and scientific teaching, learning, communication and research processes. The Open Science Policy replaces the Open Access Policy agreed by the Executive Board on 22/03/2011. The Open Science…
« Supporting universities in the further development of their internationalisation is the goal of the new project « HRK ADVANCE – Optimising Governance and Processes of Internationalisation. » After initial preparatory work, the official kick-off will take place at a digital launch event on 8 December.
The project, which is funded by…
« This study investigates the potential of citation analysis of Ph.D. theses to obtain valid and useful early career performance indicators at the level of university departments. For German theses from 1996 to 2018 the suitability of citation data from Scopus and Google Books is studied and found to be sufficient…
