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Research Information can be defined as an information (sometimes referred to as metadata) relating to the conduct and communication of research.
Die Gates Foundation hat angekündigt, ab 2025 keine APCs mehr für Gold OA zu bezahlen. Es reicht ihr, wenn Forschende stattdessen nur einen Preprint mit einer CC-BY-Lizenz veröffentlichen. Geförderte Forschende können ihre Publikationen allerdings immer noch in einem Peer-Review-Journal (auch hinter einer Paywall) veröffentlichen.
Last week, The Scholarly Kitchen posted an article by Angela Cochran,Vice President of Publishing at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, about the inability of publishers to deal with research fraud. She writes: Cochran’s argument is that although publishers manage the peer review process, it was never an expectation of peer review that they would perform ‘forensic analysis’ of datasets and associated materials.
Open access policy mandates have never been an effective way of convincing researchers of the benefits of exploring alternative, open publishing practices. Forcing someone to do something will not help them engage with the reasons for doing it. Instead, the mandate feels like a simple tickbox exercise that can be ignored once fulfilled.
I said last time that Jisc’s feeble transition-to-open-access report was the first of two disapointing scholarly-communication announcements that week. The second was of course the announcement that PeerJ has been acquired by Taylor and Francis. Matt and I have both been big fans of PeerJ since before it launched, and we were delighted to have our 2013 neck-anatomy paper in the first batch of articles published there.
Stärkung von Open Research im Berliner Raum – hilfreiche Materialien unterstützen Forschende in allen Phasen ihrer Arbeit
In 1995, one of the first institutional Open Access repositories in Germany, MONARCH, was launched at the Technical University of Chemnitz (Blumtritt, 2006). These early repositories, aimed to publish theses dissertations.
Am vergangenen Freitag, den 16.02.2024 wurden die Hochschulverträge für die Jahre 2024 bis 2028 durch die Senatorin für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Pflege, Dr. Ina Czyborra, und die Leitungen der in der Landeskonferenz der Rektor*innen und Präsident*innen (LKRP*) vertretenen Hochschulen und der Charité unterzeichnet (siehe Pressinformation der Senatsverwaltung). In den Verträgen wurde der “freie Zugang zu Ergebnissen im Sinne einer offenen
Open Research und Open Access an der Universität der Künste