« The world of scientific publishing is changing; the days of an old type of subscription-based earnings for publishers seem over, and we are entering a new era. It seems as if an ever-increasing number of journals from disparate publishers are going Gold, Open Access that is, yet have we rigorously…
« Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth, if any, in the number of practising…
« Brill and De Gruyter jointly announce agreement is reached to form De Gruyter Brill.
The transaction creates the leading academic publisher in the Humanities and presents a unique opportunity to accelerate organic growth and achieve necessary scale. With pro forma combined revenues of around EUR 134 million and 750…
« La réalité des publications des chercheurs français progresse dans son ouverture comme le démontre le Baromètre pour la Science ouverte 1. Pourtant, à ce jour, plus de la moitié des articles français sont publiés dans des revues internationales, ce qui rend nécessaire la négociation avec les acteurs commerciaux de l’édition…
« The publisher of the prestigious journal Science will soon allow the authors of its research papers to make public an almost-final version of their manuscript in a repository of their choice immediately on publication, without paying any fees. (…)
Science announced…
Le Comité stratégique du contenu (CSC) est heureux de vous présenter les Lignes directrices pour l’évaluation des éditeurs en libre accès. Il s’agit d’un ensemble de critères de viabilité financière, de qualité universitaire et de pratiques d’affaires selon lesquels nous évaluerons les modèles et ressources de libre…
« cOAlition S is excited to release today the Journal Comparison Service (JCS), a secure, free and long-anticipated digital service, that aims to shed light on publishing fees and services.
Starting from today, publishers can register with the JCS publisher portal. After signing a service agreement, publishers…
« La présente synthèse préparée par le Comité des services des bibliothèques scientifiques et des systèmes d’information (AWBI) de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Fondation allemande pour la recherche) porte sur le traçage des données dans les ressources électroniques de recherche et décrit les possibilités de pistage numérique des activités de recherche.…
« A lot has happened in the scholarly publishing landscape since LIBER published its Five Principles for Open Access Negotiations in 2017. At the time, avoiding subscription fee price increases was the extent of many library negotiation goals, and — perhaps even more detrimental to the progress of…
« This post was co-written by Dan Bolnick (The American Naturalist, Editor), Tim Vines (DataSeer.ai), Bob Montgomerie (AmNat Data Editor). This blog post addresses the value and flaws in current open and reproducible science practices, and hopefully is of interest to authors, other editors, and students considering publishing in biological sciences.
