Let’s start with the obvious. Evaluation and assessment are part and parcel of the scientific profession. Universities want to hire the best faculty, funding agencies want to support the best projects, and journals want to publish the best papers. To this end, scientists serve as members of hiring and promotion committees and on panels for funding agencies. We also write evaluation letters and reviews of manuscripts and proposals.

This is a crosspost from Open Interview thatbrings you Beall’s exclusive interview with Santosh C Hulagabali . In this interview, he has answered all pertinent questions with regard to Indian and Asian publishing practices, trends, issues, challenges and ways to mitigate the hurdles. Indian academic community- especially library professionals have high regard for your fight against dubious

From Subscriptions to Publish and Read The DEAL consortium negotiates nationwide licensing agreements for its “nearly 700 mostly publicly funded academic institutions in Germany such as universities, universities of applied sciences, research institutions and state and regional libraries”. Of concern are three major negotiations, namely those with the large corporate publishers Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley.

New digital research infrastructures and the advent of online distribution channels are changing the realities of scientific knowledge creation and dissemination. Yet, the measurement of scientific impact that funders, policy makers, and research organizations perpetuate fails to sufficiently recognize these developments.

During the last decade I have been conducting research on scholarly communication, primarily focusing on how open access in various forms has been introduced into an environment traditionally supported by subscription-based distribution models. Establishing the historical development and current status of journals and articles publishing open access still requires a lot of manual data collection.

Die Geschäftsstelle der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft veröffentlichte am 14.12.2018 eine Ausschreibung für ein neues Informationssystem zur Datenerfassung und Berichterstattung sowie der anschließenden Datenpflege und Support.

The scientific community in some African countries is seeking for closer ties to the Western European and North American communities.

Open Science is becoming increasingly popular globally and provides unprecedented opportunities for scientists in Africa, South East Asia, and Latin America.

Mit dem Workshop „Umsetzung des Kerndatensatz Forschung in der bibliothekarischen Praxis“ wurde am 24. Oktober 2018 in der Geschäftsstelle der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft in Berlin die Frage aufgegriffen, welche Auswirkungen der KDSF auf die aktuelle bibliothekarische Praxis hat.

Am 08. November 2018 fand im Anschluss an die DINI-Jahrestagung in der Stadthalle Bielefeld der dritte ORCID DE Workshop – Perspektiven und Technik statt. Mehr als 92 Vertreterinnen und Vertreter wissenschaftlicher Informationsinfrastruktureinrichtungen diskutierten über die technischen Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen bei Implementierung von ORCID sowie die Perspektive von PIDs in Deutschland.