At its General Assembly meeting in Vienna on 15 April, Science Europe’s members – comprising 50 major public research organisations in Europe – adopted four new common principles on Open Access Publisher Services. The topics concerned were: indexing, copyright and re-use, sustainable archiving, and machine readability.
Computer scientists are trying to shore up broken links in the scholarly literature. Nature presents a brief summary on the achievements and the ambitions of the “Hiberlink project”, a study which investigates how web links in online scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources that were originally referenced.
Is the term “predatory” itself really useful in the context of scholarly communication? Rick Anderson’s point of view on this controversial expression.
Scholars are citing an increasingly aging collection of scholarship. Does this reflect the growing ease with accessing the literature, or a structural shift in the way science is funded–and the way scientists are rewarded?
Springer announced that it is becoming the first publisher to offer title and chapter level metrics across all of their books via a new platform, Bookmetrix. Developed in partnership with metrics provider Altmetric, the data captured via Bookmetrix is displayed on the book pages on Springer’s content platform SpringerLink and reports how often an individual book or chapter is mentioned, shared, reviewed or read online.
An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing by STM, the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers. Various subjects are covered such as the day to day management of a journal, the Open access environment, and the new developments in scholarly communication.
Signed by over 50 organizations, the declaration calls for the loosening of intellectual property laws and policies in order to support improved access to content and the ability to text/data mine for new discoveries.
A list of the improvements planned for the DOAJ in 2015. Among them: Google Scholar compatibility, a fully functional subject browser, a simpler display with standardised information in search results for both journals and articles, and shareable, stable URLs.
A complete set of OA modules both for researchers and for library schools is now available online. It covers topics such as interoperability and retrieval, intellectual property rights and research evaluation metrics.
A testimony and a How to article on the editorial board meeting process: what is its role? What makes it succesful?
