This report examines the economic implications of Open Science and what it would mean to move towards a research ecosystem in which research elements, including data, code, software, workflows, methods, and publications, are openly shared and valued. Because the Open Science ecosystem is vast and the ambition of this work…
« (…) This study systematically reviewed the evidence on what kinds of economic impacts (positive and negative) open science can have, how these comes about, and how benefits could be maximized. (…) »
« Support for the open access movement has grown in recent years, and today more than a quarter of scholarly literature is freely available. Yet, despite years of advocacy work and countless policies and mandates promoting openness, the majority of researchers are still not compelled to make their…
« A l’occasion de ses 10 ans, la Très Grande Infrastructure de Recherche GENCI, Grand Équipement National du Calcul Intensif, a commandé une étude d’impact, afin de dresser un bilan de cette TGIR dont la mission est de porter la stratégie de calcul intensif (HPC, High Performance Computing)…
« In the course of another project, I recently ran some data on the publications of 37 laureates of the Nobel prizes in Medicine, Physics and Chemistry. The results raised eyebrows in the office: they showed that those laureates, recognized for the tremendous contribution their discoveries have made to humanity,…
« L’ADBU publie, avec le soutien du Ministère de l’Education Nationale de l’Enseignement
supérieur et de la Recherche (MENESR), une étude comparative inédite d’impact de la
fouille de textes (TDM*) sur la compétitivité de la recherche en France et en Grande-
Bretagne, deux pays dans lesquels…
« The study aims to investigate the relationships between consumption of e-journals distributed by Elsevier ScienceDirect platform, publication (articles) and impact (citations) in a sample of 13 French universities, from 2003 to 2009. It adopts a value perspective as it questions whether or not publication activity and impact are…
« Une enquête menée par la bibliothèque départementale du Val-d’Oise auprès de 13 établissements de son réseau, qui avait pour objectif « d’évaluer l’impact des bibliothèques dans les domaines économique, social, culturel et éducatif (…), apporte des informations surprenantes ». (…) »
« Like their subscription-based counterparts, Open Access articles’ metadata is essential to measuring its impact in the academic world.
Open Access (or OA) is a result of the digital publishing revolution. When print was augmented or replaced with interconnected digital documents, scholars, researchers, and librarians naturally turned…
« Research libraries assist scholars in demonstrating the value of their scholarly output through citation metrics and other measures. As the forms of scholarly communication change, so do the metrics used for assessing them. The services libraries offer must evolve in concert with these changes. This talk will provide…
