« Open Science is a collection of actions designed to make scientific processes more transparent and results more accessible. Its goal is to build a more replicable and robust science; it…
« Évaluer la littérature scientifique ou technique d’une institution de recherche consiste à rendre compte de la nature, de la qualité et de l’impact de ses publications. La bibliométrie,…
« Scientific Figures in publications often include valuable information, that cannot be searched directly with todays tools. A new tool developed by the ZBW Knowledge Discovery Research Group enables the…
« La compétition entre les mégarevues est dure. La croissance de Scientific Reports, lancé par Nature (Springer) en 2011, a été rapide. En 2017, Scientific Reports double le leader PLOS ONE,…
« The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures…
« Optional license allows students, researchers, and staff to make scholarly articles freely available.
Thanks to the efforts of Cara Manning PhD ’16, the MIT Libraries, and many others across the…
“Inventor of the Science Citation Index.
I think you’re making history, Gene!” So said Nobel laureate and molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg to his friend Eugene Garfield in 1962. They were…
« In the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in attention from the scholarly communications and research community to open access (OA) and open data practices. These are potentially…
« Last week, Impactstory released a trial version of Unpaywall- a highly anticipated tool that links you to free full-text articles as you browse the Internet. In other words, a one-stop-shop…
« Some of you may remember oaDOI, a tool that searches for an Open Access (OA) version of an article when provided with a digital object identifier (DOI). Impactstory, the team…