Edition scientifique

« The International Association for Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM) has launched the 50th anniversary edition of ‘The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly publishing’…

« Over recent years, Knowledge Unlatched has harnessed the effectiveness of its consortial funding model to become the largest gatekeeper to open access for scholarly books. But as Marcel Knöchelmann describes,…

« The license negotiations with scholarly publishers must advance the transition to open access publishing, the Finnish university rectors demand in a statement published today. Universities Finland UNIFI gives its full…

« Project MUSE offers nearly 300 “HTML5” open access books on re-designed platform

More searchable and discoverable than PDFs, the improved new format represents the “next chapter” in OA publishing in…

« The announcement of Plan S by 11 European funding agencies has rocked the scholarly publishing community.

In a nutshell, these funders (and others that may join…

« (…) Let me be clear: Sci-Hub is not just stealing PDFs. They’re phishing, they’re spamming, they’re hacking, they’re password-cracking, and basically doing anything to find personal credentials to get into…

« At 20 years, the SciELO Program is renewing the priority lines of action for the next five years (2019-2023)1, with formal implementation by all network collections starting January 2019. The…

« Earlier this week, colleagues from Crossref, ScienceOpen, and OPERAS/OpenEdition joined forces to run a webinar on “Where does publisher metadata go and how is it used?”.

Stephanie Dawson explained how…

« J’ai découvert et lu avec intérêt les numéros mensuels du BMJ Academic edition… dont je ne connaissais pas l’existence. Les modalités d’accès aux articles étant essentiellement électroniques, nous n’avons plus…

« The Directory of Open Access Journals is the world’s the most detailed directory of quality, peer-reviewed, open access journals. Being indexed in DOAJ is an internationally recognised hallmark of quality.…