« This article analyses the impact and visibility of scholarly journals in the humanities that are publishing in the national languages in Finland, Norway and Spain. Three types of publishers are considered: commercial publishers, scholarly society as publisher, and research organizations as publishers. Indicators of visibility and impact were obtained from…
« Public research policies have been promoting open-access publication in recent years as an adequate model for the dissemination of scientific knowledge. However, depending on the disciplines, its use is very diverse. This study explores the determinants of open-access publication among academic researchers of economics and business, as well as their…
« This letter is a call to the Spanish scientific authorities to abandon current research evaluation policies, which are based on an excessive and indiscriminate use of bibliometric indicators for nearly all areas of scientific activity. This narrow evaluation focus is especially applied to assess the individual performance of researchers. To…
« We are extremely pleased to announce that the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has joined the Open Library of Humanities’ Library Partnership Subsidy system, becoming the first Spanish institution to join the platform. (…) »
« As part of the FAIRsFAIR (Fostering FAIR Data Practices in Europe) project, EUA and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are organising this focus group to allow an in-depth dialogue about the development and implementation of Research Data Management (RDM) policies and the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable…
« This article gives a comprehensive overview of recent Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) publications available in Open Access. With a focus on research articles from the last decade (2008–2018), this work aims to fill the gap in previous studies about publishing trends and impact monitoring of publications by researchers from…
« Agences européennes d’évaluation, le Hcéres (France), l’Anvur (Italie) et l’AEI (Espagne) ont signé le 1er avril 2019 un accord-cadre de coopération pour l’évaluation d’infrastructures européennes de recherche, créant ainsi le consortium Eriec (European Research Infrastructure Evaluation Consortium). (…) »
« In this paper, we comparatively analyze, present and discuss the results from a survey on increasing the visibility of research achievements in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) that was carried out at the University of Vienna (Austria) and the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2016 and 2017. Covering four…
« The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) Library Network has signed an innovative Read & Publish licensing agreement with the Royal Society of Chemistry. That means CSIC authors are now able to publish in Royal Society of Chemistry Open Access journals, as well as having access to read the full range…
« The traditional mechanisms for communicating research results have recently undergone profound changes as a result of the open access movement (Abadal, Ollé, & Redondo, 2018), which makes scientific information freely accessible and reusable. The movement began with research articles, but has recently…
