Transformative agreements are an increasingly common way for universities and consortia to shift publisher business models towards open access. They do this through a prearranged payment that allows institutions to access subscription content while allowing future research to published in an openly accessible form.

“Fund and forget”, that is how Jordi Molas-Gallart from the research centre Ingenio (CSIC-UPV) in València teasingly characterized the way large national research funders often operate. It’s also a point of departure for thinking about new ways of research evaluation. The cornerstones of many forms of research evaluation are peer review and bibliometric analysis.

This post was originally published at Medium. The value of open and interoperable metadata of scientific articles is increasingly being recognized, as demonstrated by the work of organizations such as Crossref, DataCite, and OpenCitations and by initiatives such as Metadata 2020 and the Initiative for Open Citations.

We recently wrapped up a workcycle for Hypergraph, codenamed "Cheesecake" and we'd like to share our progress 😊 We use workcycles to collectively prioritise our work, assign tasks, and self-organise until the next workcycle.

The world of research evaluation is changing. In particular, we observe a growing need in research organizations for interactive, formative and tailor-made evaluation services. In response to this need, a team of CWTS colleagues has developed a new approach in collaboration with Ad Prins that we call the Evaluative Inquiry.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from all over the world and from multidisciplinary backgrounds are working on answers to the challenges raised by the disease. In this regard, the biomedical point of view is also accompanied by broader social, economic and political perspectives.

Could this be the start of a new era in scholarly communication? For all the devastating impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on us all, it has also shown how it is possible to swiftly change previously entrenched cultures and mindsets.

Juliane Meißner We are all experiencing massive changes in our daily lives. We have questions, we are feeling unsure about our health and about our future. With the outbreak of Covid-19, and the lockdowns and strict rules that will be part of our lives for the next weeks, we started asking questions and expect answers from trustworthy experts.

When your lab is the world but the world is closed down – Social Science Research in times of Covid-19 Stay at home. This sentence has become a common mantra for all of us during the last weeks. Most of my academic colleagues and friends are among the lucky ones who can actually stay at home and do not need to go to work.

This article has been originally published at the TIB Blog. At the TIB AV-Portal, we have created a service to watch the Altmetrics Conferences and Workshops.