« On behalf of the steering committee, I am pleased to announce a roadmap outlining DORA’s strategic plan to accelerate global research assessment reform over the next two years. The roadmap recognizes that signing the declaration is only a first step to creating meaningful cultural change in the scholarly community. Real…
« The UK Research Councils have today (Wednesday 7th February) published a statement on the responsible use of metrics and signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).
The Research Councils want to encourage active discussion by the research community on this policy area and, where appropriate, set out good…
« (…) Five years ago at the American Society of Cell Biology Annual Meeting in San Francisco, leading cell biologists, editors and publishers dissatisfied with the near exclusive reliance on journal impact factor as the primary means of measuring success in academia began creation of what would several months later become…
« In 1999 BioMed Central made high quality research open to anyone who wanted to access and could use it. By making open access sustainable, we changed the world of academic publishing. A core part of our role has always been to distribute, and communicate the research we publish beyond its original audience. We…
« Un éditorial intitulé « ASM Journals Eliminate Impact Factor Information from Journal Websites » vient d’être publié simultanément (septembre 2016) par plusieurs revues (Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Infection and Immunity, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, mBio, mSphere, and mSystems).
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« At the October Executive Board meeting in Lausanne the LIBER Executive Board agreed to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) (…)
LIBER recognises the pressing need highlighted by DORA to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated by…
