« Scientific progress hinges on our ability to find, synthesize, and build on relevant knowledge from the scientific literature. However, the exponential growth of this literature—with millions of papers now published each year—has made it increasingly difficult for scientists to find the information they need or even stay abreast of the…
« The current system of scholarly publishing is often criticized for being slow, expensive, and not transparent. The rise of open access publishing as part of open science tenets, promoting transparency and collaboration, together with calls for research assesment reforms are the results of these criticisms. The emergence of new open…
« Artificial intelligence could help speedily summarize research. But it comes with risks. (…) »
« Quelques notions de base à connaître sur le droit d’auteur appliqué à la Science Ouverte (…) »
« There is a long history of attempts to unify and rationalise academic research. Taking the example of VINITI, the Soviet Union’s centralised approach to organising global research, Björn Hammarfelt and Johanna Dahlin explore how an organisation that at its height employed tens of thousands, provides a parallel and precursor to…
« This study draws on a longitudinal dataset of 277 UK learned societies covering the period 2015–2023 to provide evidence-based insights into the changing landscape of society publishing. It identifies a rapid decline in the number of self-published societies and an increasingly complex outsourcing landscape. New publishing partnerships are emerging with…
« In January 2024, Ithaka S+R published “The Second Digital Transformation of Scholarly Publishing” on the state of the scholarly publishing industry as it navigated “the second digital transformation” and assessed shared infrastructure needs in light of ongoing change in the structures, workflows, incentives, and outputs in the industry. (…) Since…
« Benoît Pier (Directeur de recherche au CNRS au Laboratoire de mécanique des fluides et d’acoustique – LMFA) et Laurent Romary (Directeur de recherche, Inria) nous proposent un billet sur l’augmentation récente du nombre de publications scientifiques et son effet sur la recherche scientifique, à partir de l’analyse faite dans le…
« Given the importance of Google Search in generating visits to institutional repositories (IR), a lack of visibility in search engine results pages can hinder the possibility of their publications being found, read, downloaded, and, eventually, cited. To address this, institutions need to evaluate the visibility of their repositories to determine…
« Improving Open Access Discovery for Academic Library Users examines strategies for making scholarly, peer-reviewed open access (OA) publications more discoverable for your library community. (…) »
