« We are once again pleased to publish a special issue focused on text and data mining of scientific publications. The program committee of the 5th International Workshop on Mining Scientific Publications, recently held in conjunction with JCDL 2016, has selected a set of papers from that conference to…
« La stratégie du Lancet continue en créant encore une nouvelle revue, cette fois-ci dans le domaine de la gastro-entérologie et de l’hépatologie. Le numéro 1 se septembre 2016 (volume 1) vient de paraître (des articles avaient été mis en ligne à partir de juin). (…) »
« The promise of Open Access is colored by concerns over financial models and their potential to disrupt established academic publishing. In this installment, we take a closer look at the issues surrounding the APC-supported Gold publishing model.
In the first article in this series,…
« Today DOAJ will remove approximately 3300 journals for failure to submit a valid reapplication before the communicated deadline; a deadline which was extended twice to allow more time for reapplications. This batch removal is another step in DOAJ’s two year long project to increase the value and accuracy…
« Ce mémoire examine comment l’exploitation d’outils de gouvernance des métadonnées permet d’accroître la présence en ligne et la visibilité d’une revue académique numérique.
Après un bref aperçu des évolutions récentes dans le monde des revues académiques, l’auteur présente la façon dont la Revue scientifique et technique…
« (…) Traditionally, this survey has used the titles indexed in the ISI Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Abstracts, and Social Science Citation Index. We have presented the data from these indexes individually as well as in merged format, sorted by discipline and country of origin.
« Last week, we kicked off a series interviewing some of the top ‘open scientists’ by interviewing Dr. Joanne Kamens of Addgene, and had a look at some of the great work she’d been doing in promoting a culture of data sharing, and equal opportunity for researchers.…
« Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic institutions and scientific societies, the majority of scientific papers are currently published by five…
