« (…) As of January 2021, a group of private funding agencies and European governmental funding agencies called “cOAlition S” has begun implementing a set of principles designed to ensure that all scholarly publications resulting from their funding are published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately…
« (…) Le propos de la journée d’étude est d’essayer de mieux comprendre les ressorts et les mécanismes du marché de l’édition scientifique en s’appuyant sur des analyses d’autres marchés qui s’y apparentent pour partie (secteur du luxe, du médicament, etc.). Ces éclairages et cette tentative de comparaison visent à mieux…
« Open Access often appears to be a monolithic concept, covering all fields of research and publication. However, in practice its application is to a large extent determined by the needs and resources available to different academic communities. In this post, Bryan W. Roberts and David Teira discuss open access publishing…
« A recent report by the European Commission called « on all European Member States and other relevant actors from the public and private sectors to help co-create, develop and maintain a ‘Research System based on shared knowledge’ by 2030″. The report frames such a system as the next…
« Selon l’édition 2020 du Baromètre de la Science Ouverte (BSO), 5 % des 156 000 publications scientifiques françaises publiées en 2019 sont en accès ouvert en décembre 2020. Le taux observé en décembre 2019, relatif aux publications réalisées en 2018, n’était que de 49%. Le taux s’est donc accru de…
« Le groupe « Service générique d’accueil et de diffusion de données simples » du Comité pour la science ouverte a pour objectif d’évaluer la faisabilité d’un entrepôt générique national. Ce service sera dédié aux données pour lesquelles aucun des entrepôts disciplinaires existants ou à venir ne constituerait…
« For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, the prices for open access publishing are also high and are rising well beyond…
« The journal brand has proven to be the great intangible asset of the scholarly publisher. It signals trust and authority to authors and readers alike. So even as libraries came to license bundles rather than discrete titles and users came to discover and access content through platforms,…
« In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published.
The new requirement, which takes effect…
« The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted science in 2020 — and transformed research publishing, show data collated and analysed by Nature.
A flood of coronavirus research swept websites and journals this year. It changed how and what scientists study, a Nature analysis shows.
