Der LIBREAS-Verein zur Förderung der bibliotheks- und informationswissenschaftlichen Kommunikation schreibt in diesem Jahr erstmals ein Reisestipendium aus. Wir fördern den Besuch der Open-Access-Tage 2018 an der TU Graz vom 24.-26.9.2018 mit einem Zuschuss von 400,- EUR.
President Bartlet of The West Wing is calling his famous “What’s next” to his secretary after managing a task. I just defended my PhD last week, and one question from virtually every person who attended and stayed for the after-party: What’s Next? Which initially felt a bit weird. After all, I already took my next step three months ago when I joined Open Humans as the Director of Research.
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass die unlängst ins Leben gerufene LIBREAS-Lektürekolumne tatsächlich zu Rückmeldungen von unseren Leser*innen führt. Und wir hoffen zugleich, dass sich auf diesem Weg Debatten anregen lassen und Themen an- und aufgezeigt werden, die uns als Redaktion und/oder der Bibliothekswissenschaft bzw. bibliothekarischen Fachkultur sonst möglicherweise nicht ganz so intensiv auffallen würden.
nnThe Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is considered to be an important registry for quality-checked Open Access books – even if not all peer reviewed books are listed there. Two days ago, on 23.01.2018, I took a quick look at the ratio of books per publisher.nnOn that day, DOAB listed 254 publishers who had registered 10,502 books.
[ Vorwort: Auf dem im Titel genannten Beitrag aus der aktuelles Ausgabe der LIBREAS. Library Ideas reagierte Jens Ilg mit folgender Mail, die wir hier – auch als Aufforderung zur Diskussion – in Rücksprache mit allen Beteiligten publizieren. Grundsätzlich ist LIBREAS. Library Ideas immer an Rückmeldungen zu den publizierten Artikeln interessiert.
A few hours ago, Elsevier issued a press release on the agreement with the Finnish consortium FinElib that put an end to the #nodealnoreview boycott. Below you will find some information about it: nn There is no comprehensive Open Access clause. Elsevier promises to provide “Finnish researches with incentives to publish open access if they so choose.
While in Germany the boycott of the publisher Elsevier which was initiated by the DEAL project continues, an agreement was reached in Finland between Elsevier and the FinElib consortium, but the details are still unclear. The Website NoDealNoReview.org states: “For the time being, the only thing we can say for sure is that Elsevier subscriptions will not be cancelled in the beginning of 2018.
Three things come together to make this post. The first is the paper The 2.5% Commitment by David Lewis, which argues essentially for top slicing a percentage off library budgets to pay for shared infrastructures.
It’s not my joke but it still works. And given my pretty much complete failure to achieve even written resolutions it’s probably better to joke up front. But…here are a set of things I really need to write this year. Maybe more for my benefit than anyone else but it’s good to have a record.
Exactly 5 years ago Twitter started offering the option for users to download their full archive of personal tweets. The archive gives you a change to quickly browse through your personal history and find those funny cat pictures you once posted. But there is additional value in the archive, transcending the trips down to memory lane.