Editeur scientifique

« On July 17, 2019, Acting Provost and Vice Provost Susan Carlson, University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, and Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director Günter Waibel briefed the UC Board of Regents’ Academic and Student Affairs Committee on open access and academic journal contracts. (…) »

« Aptara has partnered with SAGE Publishing to provide an integrated SAGE-branded online platform to collect open access (OA) Creative Commons licenses and article processing charges. (…) »

« Analysis commissioned by advocacy group documents how major companies’ business strategies could help them lock up research and learning data that colleges and scholars need.
As their traditional print-based business models erode, major scholarly and textbook publishers are transitioning from being content providers to technology and data companies, too.…

« Contexte
Depuis deux années, les relations entre les bibliothèques universitaires et les éditeurs de revues scientifiques (éditeurs commerciaux et certaines sociétés savantes) se sont sensiblement dégradées en raison du poids budgétaire désormais intenable que font peser les principaux abonnements sur les budgets des bibliothèques. Cela se traduit par des…

« The divergent strategies of scholarly publishers to forge licensing agreements with libraries are yielding different results. (…) »

« (…) While libraries and funding bodies in German-speaking countries have been negotiating Open Access Agreements with large publishers for years through initiatives such as Project DEAL, small and medium-sized publishers are rarely involved. This focus on major publishers tends to promote market concentration at the expense of…

« On October 22 we posted Eight routes towards Plan S compliance. Meanwhile, cOAlition-S, the group of funders responsible for Plan S, has put out a guidance document detailing  implementation of the plan. Based on those details we updated our scheme of routes to achieve compliance.

« Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections in academic libraries increased almost fivefold from 1986 to 2011. Using data on library subscriptions and references made for a sample…

« The main contributors of scientific knowledge, researchers, generally aim to disseminate their findings far and wide. And yet, publishing companies have largely kept these findings behind a paywall. With digital publication technology markedly reducing cost, this enduring wall seems disproportionate and unjustified; moreover, it has sparked a topical exchange concerning…

« SAGE Publishing has acquired Talis, a technology company, and its enterprise teaching and learning platform, Talis Aspire.

SAGE says the acquisition marks an important step as it moves SAGE’s product portfolio beyond content-led resources into technology solutions that support teaching, learning and research in the higher education institution. This new…