« In 2022, the global COVID-19 pandemic entered its third year; political, economic and digital divides grew; and book challenges and bans surged across the country. ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom tracked a record 1,269 book challenges, the highest number of demands to ban books reported since they began compiling data…
« Scholarly communication is a complicated sector, with numerous participants and multiple mechanisms for communicating and reviewing materials created in an increasing variety of formats by researchers across the globe. (…)
In this landscape review, we seek to provide a high-level overview of the shared infrastructure that supports scholarly communication.…
« The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Research Library Impact Framework (RLIF) pilot initiative, established in 2019, has released its final report, Building a Community of Assessment. The report details the research projects, findings, and lessons learned conducted under the pilot phase of this framework.…
« (…) Ce travail prend la forme d’un rapport qui a été présenté au Comité stratégique bibliographique (CSB) de janvier 2023. Le groupe Formation de la Transition bibliographique construit depuis 2015 des formations à destination des professionnels français, il était donc temps de prendre un peu de recul sur cette activité…
« Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are of vital importance to modern day digital information-based research. They ensure that all elements of research are uniquely identifiable and discoverable. They support the integrity of scientific information and its reproducibility. Most importantly they make possible automated computer processing of a staggering and ever-growing amount of…
« The report of the « Electronic Laboratory Notebook » (ELN) working group provides a common vision on the definition, framing, uses and functional scope of the ELN, which must be able to integrate into existing IT and institutional environments. It makes recommendations on the requirements for the choice of a tool and…
« Open Access Publishing in China 2022 provides insights into the complex and evolving global Open Access landscape — and with a particular focus on China. The report is a product of a collaboration between STM Association and the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) focused on the bilateral sharing…
« The Open Data Maturity Report
Today, data.europa.eu publishes its eighth ‘Open Data Maturity (ODM) Report’. This is an assessment that began in 2015 to measure the level of maturity of countries in the European Union (EU) and their progress in promoting open data publication and reuse.…
« The European Research Data Landscape study looks at researchers’ practices in producing, reusing and depositing data, and in making it FAIR, as well as examining the research data repository landscape. During the study, two surveys were carried out – one of researchers (over 15,000 responses), and the other of research…
« Open access (OA) and the broad sharing of research outputs has been empirically shown to accelerate scientific progress and benefit society and individuals at scale through improved health outcomes, socioeconomic mobility, and environmental well-being, to name a few. Academic research libraries, for their part, have made significant investments in opening…
