“[Data], [data] everywhere, nor any drop to [use].” The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (or, the Rime of the Modern Researcher) Research has always depended on data: whether it was recorded in a notebook, photographed and documented, or now processed through high-performance computing. Regardless of the medium of the data (paper, photos, your computer), it […]| IU Libraries Blogs
As a process that validates information credibility, peer review is undeniably and incredibly valuable—when it works. But sometimes it doesn’t work as well as we’d like. The post Reviewing peer review first appeared on ACRLog.| ACRLog
This study examines academic monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences across the United States and Europe to understand how current business models are functioning for their consumer base, namely libraries and authors. Through interviews with librarians, content aggregators, publishers, and authors, we gathered information on a variety of business models (including hybrid, digital, and print models, and those driven by open access imperatives), the needs of academic librarie...| Ithaka S+R
Special timely note: Please come by and chat about OA with Scholarly Communications staff at the IU Libraries Graduate Student Reception, Wednesday August 20! In your scholarly journey thus far, you’ve undoubtedly clicked on an article only to find a paywall that even your IU affiliation couldn’t unlock. You can imagine how common this experience […]| IU Libraries Blogs
Journals and peer review are unlikely to change for the better if the companies that operate scientific indexes and citation databases continue to stifle innovation. At eLife we believe that the content of a research article is more important than the name or impact factor of the journal in which it is published. Our approach to scientific publishing – which we adopted in 2023 – combines the immediacy and openness of preprints with the expert evaluation provided by peer review.| DORA
Source The festschrift that includes the edited version of the draft we posted back in April entitled Lots Of Cliff Keeps Stuff Safe has b...| blog.dshr.org
The innovative F1000Research open research publishing model was launched in 2012 and was born out of a desire to start again, thinking about the technology and tools at the time and redesigning how we share and critically review new discoveries and support others to then build on them. The biggest challenge is the way that we typically currently assess and incentivise researchers and the research processes that they use, which together in effect disincentivises the use of these new publishing...| DORA
The post Judging research on its own merits: How MetaROR supports better research assessment appeared first on DORA.| DORA
Il movimento della scienza aperta, seguendo anche le raccomandazioni dell’UNESCO del 2021| Open Science @Unimi
We are happy to share that our Annual Report 2024 has been published on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/15672537 The OPERAS Annual Report provides a detailed record of the activities of OPERAS AISBL and OPERAS as a...| OPERAS
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English version Version Française The blog series “Spotlight on National Nodes” presents the activities of the OPERAS National Nodes within their national communities, highlighting the work they carry out in their countries, their specificities,...| OPERAS
We are glad to welcome the University of Bielefeld as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community in 2025. Bielefeld University, especially the Library, is a pioneer of the Open Access movement in...| OPERAS
Starting January 24, 2025, OPERAS will no longer be active on Platform X. This date, which coincides with the International Day of Education, serves as a fitting moment to reaffirm our commitment to fostering...| OPERAS
We are pleased to announce that OPERAS has published its own CoARA Action Plan to build a coherent approach to research assessment reform and to further align our practices with the commitments of the...| OPERAS
We are glad to welcome the University of Silesia in Katowice as a new ordinary member of the OPERAS community in 2025. The University of Silesia in Katowice is the largest in Silesia and...| OPERAS
Source Rupak Ghose's The $100 billion Bloomberg for academics and lawyers? is essential reading for anyone interested in academic publishi...| blog.dshr.org
The reports produced as part of the exploratory studies which were conducted in 2023 are now published in open access. A general report summarising the four studies is available in English at the following link: https://zenodo.org/records/10972986 To find out more about the use case study, the evaluations of machine translations in the context of scholarly communication, as well as the economic, ethical and operational considerations for the creation of a technology-aided, collaborative trans...| Traductions et science ouverte
OPERAS will host an online session on “Fostering Trust in the Digital Sphere: A Multi-Stakeholder Approach Introduction” at the Science Summit during the 79th United Nations General Assembly. The session on 11 September 2024,...| OPERAS
Here is the text of my out of office message for tomorrow’s #ShutDownAcademia #ShutDownSTEM: Subject: Away and Not Responding in observance of #ShutDownAcademia Today I am away from my desk and not…| At The Intersection
It’s already rough enough being Black in America and the world right now. But then I find nonsense like this. We already know the libraries, publishers, and vendors periodical Against the Gra…| At The Intersection
How has the patriarchy affected you? How has the patriarchy impacted your work? How have you been complicit in perpetuating the patriarchy? These were the three questions we started with when begin…| At The Intersection