« Faire dialoguer un scientifique avec un artiste de BD… le pari lancé en 2015 par l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie en partenariat avec l’agence de communication La Bande Destinée était loin d’être gagné… Et pourtant, la cuvée 2016 d’ERcCOMICS a dépassé les espérances !
« 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…
« Why has the rise of the Internet – which drastically reduces the cost of distributing information – coincided with drastic increases in the prices that academic libraries pay for access to scholarly journals?
This study argues that libraries are trapped in a collective action dilemma as…
« The Royal Society of Chemistry held, to our knowledge, the world’s first Twitter conference at 9am on February 5 th, 2015. The conference was a Twitter-only conference, allowing researchers to upload academic posters as tweets, replacing a physical meeting.
This paper reports the…
« In 25 years, open access, i.e. free and unrestricted access to scientific information, has become a significant part of scientific communication. However, its success story should not conceal a fundamental change of its nature. •Open access started, together with the Web, at the grassroots, as a bottom-up, community-driven…
« Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic institutions and scientific societies, the majority of scientific papers are currently published by five…
« Cette enquête fait partie d’un effort en cours visant à cartographier le panorama changeant de la communication scientifique. Les changements de ce panorama sont motivés par la technologie, les politiques et la culture mais, au final, ils ont…
« IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, today announced it has worked with other publishing organizations, Elsevier and the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), to create recommendations regarding best practices to help ensure technical conference content quality. The recommendations can be found in
« ORCID, DOAJ, HAL, ArXiv, Zenodo, Zotero, Mendeley, Academia, Google Scholar, GitHub, Dryad, Figshare…
Certains de ces noms vous sont peut-être familiers, mais probablement pas tous. Ils ne sont qu’un échantillon des 575 outils recensés par la bibliothèque de l’université d’Utrecht (Pays-Bas) (…) »
« There is strong evidence that collaborative research between institutions, countries or regions increases the quality, visibility and impact of the resulting publications. This phenomenon has attracted the attention of policy makers as a way to foster excellence in research worldwide (…) »
