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Pubblicato in Open Access Brandenburg
Autore Team OA Brandenburg

Ein aktueller Literaturhinweis: Am 08. Februar 2024 erschien ein sehr übersichtlich aufbereiteter und damit umso mehr als Überblick und Handreichung zur empfehlender Leitfaden zum Thema „Zweitveröffentlichungen“. Er entstand im Rahmen der Fokusgruppe Zweitveröffentlichung von open-access.network und richtet sich an die Mitarbeitenden von Publikationsservices in Wissenschaftseinrichtungen.

Pubblicato in Open Access Brandenburg
Autore Ben Kaden

Eine Binse der Geschichte ist, dass für ein Verständnis der Gegenwart mitunter ein Blick zurück ein guter Schlüssel ist. Für das Phänomen Open Access bzw. den offenen Zugang zu wissenschaftlichem Wissen bietet sich das besonders gut an. Einerseits, weil man die Mäander des Diskurses bei diesem Thema besonders stark ausgeprägt vorfindet. Und andererseits, weil das Thema überhaupt erst durch die Möglichkeit des elektronischen bzw.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

As I was clearing out some old documents, I stumbled on this form from 2006: This was back when Paul Upchurch’s dissertation, then only 13 years old, contained much that still unpublished in more formal venues, notably the description of what was then “ Pelorosaurus becklesii . As a fresh young sauropod researcher I was keen to read this and other parts of what was then almost certainly the most important and comprehensive

Pubblicato in Open Access Brandenburg
Autore Anita Eppelin

Von Anita Eppelin (Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg) und Sophie Kobialka (Open Access Büro Berlin) Der virtuelle “OPUS 4 Repository Workshop” am 17.8.2021 diente dem Austausch zwischen Nutzer*innen der Repository-Software mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den OPUS-Einsatz im Rahmen von institutionellen Open-Access-Strategien.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

In a recent blog-post, Kevin Smith tells it like it is: legacy publishers are tightening their grip in an attempt to control scholarly communications. “The same five or six major publishers who dominate the market for scholarly journals are engaged in a race to capture the terms of and platforms for scholarly sharing”, says Smith.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

A quick note to say that I got an email today — the University of Bristol Staff Bulletin — announcing some extremely welcome news: {.aligncenter .size-full .wp-image-12446 loading=“lazy” attachment-id=“12446” permalink=“http://svpow.com/2015/09/17/the-university-of-bristols-new-openaccess-policy/bristol-oa/” orig-file=“https://svpow.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/bristol-oa.png” orig-size=“950,298” comments-opened=“1”

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

You know what’s wrong with scholarly publishing? Wait, scrub that question. We’ll be here all day. Let me jump straight to the chase and tell you the specific problem with scholarly publishing that I’m thinking of. There’s nowhere to go to find all open-access papers, to download their metadata, to access it via an open API, to find out what’s new, to act as a platform for the development of new tools.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

Just a quick post today, to refute an incorrect idea about open access that has unfortunately been propagated from time to time. That is the idea that if (say) PLOS were acquired by a barrier-based publisher such as Taylor and Francis, then its papers could be hidden behind paywalls and effectively lost to the world.

Pubblicato in Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

[NOTE: see the updates at the bottom. In summary, there’s nothing to see here and I was mistaken in posting this in the first place.] Elsevier’s War On Access was stepped up last year when they started contacting individual universities to prevent them from letting the world read their research.