Die EU-Wissenschaftsministerien haben sich auf ihrer heutigen Sitzung in Brüssel unter dem Titel “Council conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing” (PDF der englischen Version, PDF der deutschen Version) mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens befasst.

Die Open-Access-Zeitschrift LIBREAS. Library Ideas entstand um 2004 am Institut für Bibliothekswissenschaft (heute: Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

We are delighted to announce that the French National Fund for Open Science (FNSO) has renewed its commitment to sustaining the activities of four SCOSS-selected infrastructures, including OpenCitations.

Es mag für manche Open-Access-Anhänger*innen bisweilen etwas erstaunlich wirken, wenn Kritik an den Kostenmodellen für Open Access ausgerechnet in Zeitschriften, die bei Elsevier erscheinen, artikuliert wird. Aber da ich gerade eine aktuellere Ausgabe von Social Science & Medicine (Volume 317, January 2023) vor mir und darin einen Aufsatz bzw.

Text of a talk given to the COPIM end-of-project conference: “Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books”, April 20th 2023 Open access publishing has always had a difficult relationship with smoothness and scale.

In our digital era, scientists are certainly sharing and reusing open data. Yet it remains unclear how widespread data reuse and citation practices are within academic disciplines, and why scientists cite—or do not cite—data in their research work.

Yesterday, the preprint repositories bioRxiv/medRxiv and arXiv released coordinated statements on the recent memo on open science from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. While welcoming the memo, the repositories claim that the ‘rational choice’ for making research immediately accessible would be to mandate preprints for all federally funded research.

I’ve just uploaded ‘The Politics of Rights Retention’ to my Humanities Commons site: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:52287/. The article is a preprint of a commentary currently under consideration for a special issue on open access publishing. Abstract This article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing.

Gothenburg, Sweden played host to the Research Data Alliance (RDA) RDA20 plenary from March 20th to 24th 2023. A hybrid event with most sessions recorded and made available via the Whova app for registered participants. Recordings will be made available on Monday, 1 May 2023 to the wider community.

The Workshop on Open Citations and Open Scholarly Metadata will come back to Bologna, on 26-27 October 2023.