« (…) This book provides an overview of the STI landscape in South Africa and succinctly outlines how the provision of RI has the potential to play a catalytic role in the advancement of STI endeavours. In addition, this book acts as a useful resource to ignite collaborative discussions and strengthen…
« China is taking dramatic steps to improve the quality and international reputation of its home-grown science journals. Publishers of hundreds of Chinese titles will receive generous government funding as part of a major five-year plan to elevate the country’s publications to among the world’s best.
The government said in…
« Le rapport Insights into European research funder Open policies and practices présente les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès des organismes de financement de la recherche européens. Il s’agissait pour SPARC Europe de connaitre leurs politiques, leurs pratiques et leurs incitations vis-à-vis du libre accès aux publications…
« A report that reveals the Open Access and Open Science policies, incentives and practices of European funders is being released today. Based on a survey conducted in late spring, the report is a first of its kind to examine what key international funding bodies (international and national funding bodies, major…
« Several publishers are concerned about the timeline for implementing Plan S, the European initiative that will make all research papers free to access (see Nature 561, 17–18; 2018). Their main concern is whether their markets will be ready for a ‘pay…
« The Open Funder Registry plays a critical role in making sure that our members correctly identify the funding sources behind the research that they are publishing. It addresses a similar problem to the one that led to the creation of ORCID: researchers’…
« Un certain nombre de critères, qualifiés de critères d’exemplarité, ont été définis par le Comité pour la science ouverte. Ils serviront à guider les choix des investissements à réaliser concernant l’édition scientifique et plus particulièrement les plateformes, les infrastructures et les contenus éditoriaux. Les projets candidats…
« FAIR research data encompasses the way to create, store and publish research data in a way that they are findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. In order to be FAIR, research data published should meet certain criteria described by the FAIR principles. Despite this, many research performing organisations and infrastructures…
« L’action 5 « Bibliothèques et documentation » vise, pour l’essentiel, à financer les crédits de personnel et de fonctionnement des bibliothèques universitaires. Ses crédits passent cette année de 447,67 à 449,51 millions d’euros, soit une hausse de 0,41 %, en AE comme en CP. Cette hausse vise notamment à améliorer les conditions d’accueil des étudiants…
« (…) This report is aimed both at the research funding community and policy-makers wishing to adapt competitive research funding strategies to different objectives. It includes a number of policy recommendations, which engage different actors and are derived from the analysis including identification of gaps in the available data and information. »
