nnTwo days ago Clarivate Analytics announced a partnership with Impactstory to make Open access content easier for researchers to use. Clarivate operates the citation database Web of Science and plans to support the development of Impactstory’s oaDOI-service.nnThis service identifies 90 million Open Access articles, particularly important is its integration into unpaywall.org.

Zu: Adler, Melissa (2017). Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017 von Karsten Schuldt

The following will come across as a rant. Which it is. But it’s a well intentioned rant. Please bear in mind that I care about good practice in data sharing, documentation, and preservation. I know there are many people working to support it, generally under-funded, often having to justify their existence to higher-ups who care more about the next Glam Mag article than whether there’s any evidence to support the findings.

nnThe American Psychological Association (APA) announced a pilot project “to monitor and seek removal of unauthorized online postings of APA journal articles”. According to SHERPA/RoMEO the APA is a green publisher that allows to post articles published in its journals under the following conditions:nn Authors’ pre-print on a web-site Authors’ pre-print must be labeled with date and accompanied with statement that paper has not (yet) been

Little proof exists to warrant an overturn of the current publishing system—a system that has been refined over many decades and works to the mutual benefit of various stakeholders. Brian D. Crawford, 2003 An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. Jean-Claude Guédon, 2017

Readers of my blog know that some weeks ago I last asked the community for information on services that are owned by Elsevier. I needed the information to prepare a talk on data collection on science and event logging in science. I will soon publish my talk, together with a resume. As suggested in my talk, Elsevier uses the technology of the

Eine Notiz von Ben Kaden (@bkaden) In dervergangenen Woche fand bekanntlich in Frankfurt am Main der Bibliothekartag 2017 statt, eine seltsam buchfreie und ausgiebig betwitterte Veranstaltung, die wie immer ein ganz guten Rundumblick über den Diskursstand des deutschen Bibliothekswesens lieferte.

nn<span title=“Elseviers Einkaufbummel (man erwarb u.a. PLUM Analytics) kontert Clarivate Analytics durch den Kauf von publons.nn”>Elsevier’s shopping spree (including the newest acquisition PLUM Analytics) is countered by Clarivate Analytics’ purchase of publons.nnBoth companies are already competing because they keep the two most important citation and impact databases in their portfolios with Scopus (owned by Elsevier) and the Web of

Philipp and I again participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint , which took place on 1st and 2nd of July.

This is my submitted paper to ElPub, a conference running in Cyprus over the next few days. I’m posting it here as a kind-of-preprint. Comments and thoughts are welcome. The version in the proceedings is available online as part of Chan and Loizides (eds) Expanding Perspectives on Open Science: Communities, Cultures and Diversity in Concepts and Practices.