Der wirklich grosse Big Bang ist in der Schweiz ausgeblieben. Dennoch kündigen nun alle Schweizer Hochschulen ihren Big Deal mit Springer Nature (inkl. Nature Journals). Wie Swissuniversities bekannt gibt, konnte Springer Nature nun nach über 1.5 Jahren Verhandlung kein passendes Angebot liefern.
If you’re at all interested in open access publishing, you probably know that it has a long and complicated history. There are disagreements and differences over strategies, tactics, politics, definitions, motivations, disciplinary approaches, business models and routes to OA. Many words have been spilled over the ‘mess’ that open access has become and the fact that the concept of open access itself has a number of different lineages.
In this keynote presented at the Atla 2019, Juan Pablo Alperin discusses the role of incentives in opening access to scholarly research.
What is the value of social science today? Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan, Photo: Svetluša Surova For me, the value of social science is ultimately about the quality of life. What social science does is that it helps us to take observations of the world and put them into a form where we can understand more about how the world works. We can then use social science to anticipate likely consequences of our actions.
The Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services (SCOSS) is launching its second funding cycle, and OpenCitations is one of three open science infrastructure organizations whose services have been evaluated and selected for presentation to the international scholarly community for crowd-sourced sustainability funding, along with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). OpenCitations is an
I recently visited CWTS to discuss and present my PhD project, which is about the algorithmic classification of research publications. My previous experiences when working with this topic and the discussions during my week at CWTS led me to further consider the question about what holds a research field together.
In this keynote presented at the FSCI 2019, Juan Pablo Alperin discusses the role of incentives in opening access to scholarly research.
This month, lab members took part in three conferences: the Canadian Science Policy Conference in Ottawa, the United Nations Open Science Conference, and the PKP 2019 International Scholarly Publishing Conference in Barcelona.
In 1997, SciELO, the biggest Open Access database in Latin America got some initial funding from the São Paulo Research Foundation FAPESP. What triggered the launch of such an infrastructure and what were the main goals back then? Back then a few local scientists approached us with the idea to set up a repository for journals edited in Brazil.
Am 9. und 10. November 2020 organisieren das Deutsche Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung und die DINI-Arbeitsgruppe „Forschungsinformationssysteme“ eine öffentlichen Veranstaltung zum Thema Kerndatensatz Forschung. Mit der Veranstaltung werden nunmehr fünf Jahre Kerndatensatz Forschung zum Anlass genommen, um über dessen Umsetzung, dabei gemachte Erfahrungen sowie Entwicklungen und Perspektiven zu sprechen und sich auszutauschen.