June 7, 2022 by Gary Price
Coherent Digital Acquires the Index to Current Urban Documents Database Elsevier Closes Interfolio Acquisition Frontiers Is the First Publisher to Sign ‘Stick to Science’ Initiative Japan Launches Preprint Server — but Will Scientists Use It? (via Nature) JMIRx Med: First Preprint Overlay Journal Accepted in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) OpenAire Announces Launch […]
March 4, 2022 by Gary Price
From the Cornell Chronicle: Elaine L. Westbrooks, vice provost and university librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch University Librarian. The appointment, effective July 1, was made by Provost Michael Kotlikoff and approved by the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees. For […]
March 1, 2022 by Gary Price
Europeana Aggregators’ Forum Activity Report 2021 Frontiers for Young Minds Celebrates 15 Million Article Views! IOI (Invest in Open Infrastructure) Announces New Steering Committee Members JSTOR Partners With TypeCite to Make Citations Easy NISO Plus 2022: The Name Doesn’t Say It All (via Information Today) OASPA & Make Data Count Workshop Report: What Are Publisher […]
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February 18, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title The Essence and Transcendence of Scientific Publishing Authors José L. Medina-Franco Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Edgar López-López Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico Source Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics 16 February 2022 DOI: […]
January 31, 2022 by Gary Price
The article linked below was published today (1/29/2022) by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title The Scholarly Knowledge Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities for the Field of Information Authors Micah Altman MIT Philip N. Cohen University of Maryland Source Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 6:751553 DOI: 10.3389/frma.2021.751553 Abstract The scholarly knowledge ecosystem presents an […]
January 26, 2022 by Gary Price
From Phys.org: Academic Analytics Research Center (AARC) shared comprehensive data on scholarly publication rates in 170 disciplines. The newly available data tables show the rate of journal article, book, conference proceeding, and book chapter publications over different time periods and across different career stages in each discipline. “There’s a huge range of bibliometric activity across […]
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January 20, 2022 by Gary Price
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives & Wikidata: Using Linked Open Data to Connect Smithsonian Information Smithsonian Libraries and Archives) Survey Findings: Delving Deeper Into Preprints in Institutional and Generalist Repositories (via COAR) The Rise of the Guest Editor—Discontinuities of Editorship in Scholarly Publishing (via Frontiers in Research Metrics & Analytics) Upcoming Special Event: Automated Search in […]
January 4, 2022 by Gary Price
From the arXiv Blog: arXiv, stewarded by Cornell Tech, is a free resource for scholars around the world in fields including physics, math and computer science, who use the service to share their own cutting-edge research and read work submitted by others. “These 2 million submissions represent 2 million opportunities for humanity to push forward […]
December 26, 2021 by Gary Price
The article linked below was recently published by Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics. Title Perspectives on Open Science and The Future of Scholarly Communication: Internet Trackers and Algorithmic Persuasion Authors Tiberius Ignat Scientific Knowledge Services, Munich, Germany Paul Ayris LCCOS – Library, Culture, Collections, Open Science, University College London Beatrice Gini Cambridge University Library […]
November 25, 2021 by Gary Price
UPDATE Statements on Adoption of UNESCO Open Science Recommendation SPARC Statement on UNESCO Ratification of Open Science Recommendation (November 29, 2021) UNESCO Agrees Open Science Recommendation – Implications for Libraries (via IFLA) International Alliance of Research Library Associations (IARLA) Applaud UNESCO Open Science Recommendation (November 25, 2021) Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL): Research Libraries: […]