31/10/2023
« The history of SciELO can be understood as the search for a solution to a local problem with a view to international collaboration. (…) »
26/10/2023
« Helsinki Initiative organizes a webinar series on Multilingualism in Scholarly Communication with speakers representing different expert communities and strands of work. This event includes three presentations ranging from language policies to the role of national language journals and translations in science. The event is free and open for everyone (…)
04/10/2023
« HAL is the French national open repository for publications. Part of the Ministry’s research infrastructure roadmap and of the National Plan for Open Science, HAL is the multidisciplinary open archive chosen by the whole French scientific and university community for the dissemination of knowledge. (…)
The…
04/10/2023
« Seismica, a pioneering diamond open access journal in Seismology and Earthquake Science, launched in July 2022. Seismica is an independent journal supported by McGill University, designed and built by a global community of researchers with the aim of making scientific research freely available. (…) ».
27/09/2023
« Software and data citation are emerging best practices in scholarly communication. This article provides structured guidance to the academic publishing community on how to implement software and data citation in publishing workflows. (…) »
25/09/2023
« Different alternative publishing platforms have appeared over recent years. But what are their pros and cons? Do they differ significantly from traditional scholarly journals? To better understand what individual publishing platforms do and how they fit in the open scholarly communication ecosystem, Knowledge Exchange invited platforms working in open access…
28/08/2023
« KEY TAKEAWAYS
– cOAlition S plans to drop 1,589 titles from its transformative journal programme due to insufficient progress towards open access.
– The move highlights the growing importance of accelerating the shift to open access in the scientific community. (…) »
02/08/2023
« One of the underlying themes of this year’s meeting is the impact of open science practices on the nature of scientific culture across the world.
Check out the programme’s sessions:
Session 1: September 4. Academic publishing reform. What does the future hold? Session 2: September 5. Ownership of the academic…
01/08/2023
« This preliminary policy document calls for increased alignment in institutional publishing along several dimensions: (1) geographical (i.e. national, regional, and global), (2) disciplines and epistemic traditions, and (3) types of stakeholders (institutions, publishers, service providers, scholarly societies, journal editors), to benefit the work of researchers and thus enable science to…
23/05/2023
« Joint response by the European University Association (EUA), Science Europe, Association of European Research Libraries (LIBER), European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), Association of ERC Grantees (AERG), Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA), European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (Eurodoc), cOAlition S, OPERAS, and French National…