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Research Article (Preprint): “Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-Provided Metadata: An Article-Level Study of Elsevier”
Data Files, Elsevier, Funding, News, Open Access, Publishing
|The following research article (preprint) was recently posted on arXiv. Title Transparency to Hybrid Open Access Through Publisher-Provided Metadata: An Article-Level Study of Elsevier Authors Najko Jahn University of Göttingen L. Matthias Freie Universität Berlin Mikael Laakso Hanken School of Economics Source via arXiv February 9, 2021 Abstract With the growth of open access (OA), […]
From a Colorado State University Announcement: After a year of negotiations, the Colorado State University Libraries recently agreed to a new three-year contract with scholarly publishing giant Elsevier, through the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. [Clip] [Emphasis ours] The Libraries subscribes through CARL, a coalition of 14 academic libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, to leverage […]
Report: New Bot Flags Scientific Studies that Cite Retracted Papers
Elsevier, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From Nature Index: An automated tool is targeting an issue that has plagued science for decades: retracted studies cited in newly published papers without acknowledgement that they have been pulled from the literature. Launched in November, Scite Reference Check scans new article PDFs for references to retracted papers, and posts both the citing and retracted […]
Association of American Publishers Announces Subject Category Winners of 2021 Prose Awards
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From AAP: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled 45 Subject Category Winners for the 2021 PROSE Awards honoring the best scholarly works published in 2020. A panel of 23 judges selected these winners from a total of 130 Finalists from an overall pool of 595 entries for this year’s PROSE Awards competition. “These […]
Roundup (January 28, 2021)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Roundup
|Data Privacy Day 2002 A Day in the Life of Your Data: Apple Details How Companies Can Track You Across Apps and Websites (via MacRumors) ||| Direct to Document Global Privacy Control Wants to Succeed Where Do Not Track Failed (via The Verge) Preprints are Now in Scopus (via Elsevier) President Joe Biden in the […]
Roundup (January 26, 2021)
Data Files, Elsevier, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing, Roundup
|Data Analysis and Charts: Women Making Gains in STEM Occupations but Still Underrepresented: Women Are Nearly Half of U.S. Workforce but only 27% of STEM Workers (via U.S. Census) Law Library of Congress Acquires 15th-Century Manuscript of the Canons and Constitutions of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza (via In Custodia Legis) The Royal Danish Library and […]
Association of American Publishers (AAP) Announces Finalists For 2021 Prose Awards
Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Elsevier, Lecture, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From an AAP Announcement: The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today unveiled finalists for the 45thannual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2020, comprising a total of 130 finalists across 44 subject categories. Since 1976, the Association of American Publishers’ annual PROSE Awards have recognized publishers who produce books, journals, reference […]
From a Crossref Blog Post by Jennifer Kemp: 2020 wasn’t all bad. In April of last year, we released our first public data file. Though Crossref metadata is always openly available––and our board recently cemented this by voting to adopt the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)––we’ve decided to release an updated file. This will […]
Roundup (December 18, 2020)
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|Digital Research and the Year That Was (via Digital Scholarship Blog, British Library) Elsevier Expands Open Access Options for Cell Press Journals from January 2021 FORCE11 Announces New Board Members for 2021 The International COVID-19 Data Alliance (ICODA) Joins Research Data Alliance (RDS) as an Affiliate Member UK National Archives Adopts Geospatial Data Research And […]
From Elsevier: Elsevier has long supported the responsible use of metrics and indicators in the assessment of research. We established the International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) to work in partnership with the research community to help develop our approach to research assessment. It’s vital that we work together to apply the same […]