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American Society of Civil Engineers, Annual Reviews, BioOne and the Geological Society Join Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative (via Kudos) FCC Receives $1.3B in New Emergency Connectivity Fund Applications (via FCC) Millions of Open Cultural Heritage Resources From Europeana Now Easily Accessible Through WorldCat (via OCLC) New Research From Springer Nature on “Gold” Open Access (via […]
Journal Article: “A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing”
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The article linked below was published today by Data Science Journal. Title A Survey of Researchers’ Needs and Priorities for Data Sharing Authors Iain Hrynaszkiewicz| Public Library of Science (PLOS) James Harney Public Library of Science (PLOS) Lauren Cadwallader Public Library of Science (PLOS) Source Data Science Journal, 20(1), p.31. DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2021-031 Abstract One of […]
News Roundup (October 13, 2021)
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A Survey of Spanish Posters and Related Graphics at the National Archives (via NARA) Indiana University Press Chooses Project MUSE as its Journals Platform First PLOS Journal in 14 Years Launches: PLOS Global Public Health Publishes Inaugural Papers= National Library of France Finally Complete After a 10-Year-Long Renovation (via Arch Daily) The Impact of COVID […]
Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) Celebrates First Anniversary, Number of Publishers Supporting More Than Doubled During Year One
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From a Blog Post by Ludo Waltman, Bianca Kramer, and David Shotton: When I4OA was launched one year ago, the initiative was supported by 40 publishers, including Hindawi, Royal Society, and SAGE, who are founding members of the initiative. Among the initial supporters of I4OA there were commercial publishers (e.g., F1000, Frontiers, Hindawi, MDPI, PeerJ, […]
Announcing a New PLOS Policy on Inclusion in Global Research (via Public Library of Science) Brooke L. Clement Appointed Director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum (via NARA) CLIR Invites Applications for Digitizing At-Risk Audio and Audiovisual Materials (via (Council on Library and Internet Resources) Partnership For Shared Book Collections Publishes September […]
From PREreview: The PREreview team is very excited to announce the publication of the Open Reviewer Toolkit, three guides to help with the unbiased composition and assessment of research manuscripts’ review. The guides are openly available for download on Zenodo under CC-BY 4.0 license. The first one is the Bias Reflection Guide, a tool meant […]
The Scientist: “As Plan S Takes Effect, Some Anticipate Inequitable Outcomes “
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From The Scientist: “Essentially what Plan S is doing is it’s moving from a reader-pays to a [author]-pays system,” says Robin Crewe, a retired entomologist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and former president of the Academy of Science of South Africa. “That’s fine in systems in which the research activities are well […]
2021 Canadian Book Market Half-Year Review (via BookNet Canada) Independent Together: The State of Art Book Publishing (via Art in America) Exact Editions Introduces Climate Crisis Digital Resource Page Providing Full Text Access to Articles From Over 50 Different Publications New “Accepted Titles” List: Get Early Insights into New Scopus content (via Scopus Blog) Outstanding […]
New Data From Simba Information: Scientific & Technical Publishing Grew During Pandemic
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Note: Below highlights from a new, fee-based report. From Simba Information: Conavirus lockdowns, travel restrictions and trade disruptions made for a challenging year, but according to the most recent report from Simba Information, a leader in media and publishing intelligence; these factors did not keep the scientific and technical publishing market from posting underlying growth. […]
Journal Article: “Is the Open Access Citation Advantage Real? A Systematic Review of the Citation of Open Access and Subscription-Based Articles”
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The article linked below was published today by PLOS One. Title Is the Open Access Citation Advantage Real? A Systematic Review of the Citation of Open Access and Subscription-Based Articles Authors Allison Langham-Putrow University of Minnesota Libraries Caitlin Bakker University of Minnesota Health Sciences Libraries Amy Riegelman University of Minnesota Libraries Source PLoS ONE 16(6): […]
