« L’expression « évaluation par les pairs » a fait irruption dans les médias avec la crise du Covid-19 et l’on en mesure bien l’importance : pour être dignes de foi, les résultats d’une recherche doivent d’abord être examinés de manière critique par d’autres spécialistes du domaine, des « pairs ». De fait, ce
« Pour les cinq ans de l’épijournal de géométrie algébrique, nous avons interviewé Pierre-Emmanuel Chaput sur le lancement de cette revue numérique au sein de l’IECL.
Qu’est-ce qu’un épijournal ? Quelle est la spécificité d’épiga ?
Un épijournal ou overlay-journal est une revue qui “publie” des…
« (…) Volcanica (www.jvolcanica.org) has been accepting submissions for two years now, and at this time of writing has published 37 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Being a fully Open Access journal, Volcanica does not generate revenue from reader/library subscriptions, nor does it charge article processing charges to the authors. This…
« On 9 April 2021, SPARC Europe hosted a Q&A webinar with authors of the recently published Diamond OA Journals Study (https://zenodo.org/record/4558704), which has shone light on a publishing model that operates without charging authors or readers. The Q&A webinar was a chance for authors to present the…
« Some scholarly publishers have already outsourced operations like copy editing and printing. Now, 15 journals are outsourcing something central to science itself: the peer-review process. The journals, which include BMJ Open Science and Royal Society Open Science, say they will accept articles reviewed by a nonprofit “peer community” organization. (…) »
« With the advent of responsible metrics approaches such as DORA, and their endorsement by funders such as cOAlitions S and the Wellcome Trust, there is a significant anti-journal metric backlash. Alternative ways of assessing journals are being proposed, such as TOP Factor and the Quality Open Access Market, but are…
« (…)The special issue covers a diversity of topics on Chinese science, ranging from scientometric analyses (i.e., Chinese social science in general, Sino-U.S. collaborative research, Chinese domestic publication in science, and China’s research team size features and dynamics) to studies of the Chinese science system and research…
« This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to open access, a move heavily incentivized by governmental mandates and open access policies. By investigating the journals’ visiting logs in the period 2014–2019, the study finds that a conversion…
« To what extent does article version matter to researchers? Does the version of record (VOR) offer significantly more value to them, to the extent that it would impact the way a researcher might discover, read or share a research output?
Exploring researcher preference for the version…