This briefing paper, “Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science – Report on the current state of Repositories”, presents an overview of the international repository landscape as of May 2015. The paper was produced by COAR on behalf of the Aligning Repository Networks Committee, a group of senior representatives from repository networks around the world.
More than 1.2 million people have signed up to use ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), a registry or ‘science passport’ that allocates users a unique 16-digit identifier and webpage that they can use to record their publications and grants. ORCID announced that users would soon be able to record on their profile the many different types of peer review they do.
Publishers and libraries are increasingly experimenting with Open Access (OA) books, according to a new survey by industry advisors, Publishers Communication Group (PCG). Books published under the so-called “author-pays,” Gold Open Access model with no paywall for readers are expected to slowly grow in importance, with funding derived from a variety of sources including library budgets, the study reported.
Results from a pilot study correlating Open access article processing charges (APCs) and the journal impact factor. According to this study, some open access journals using the APC business model may be exploiting impact factor status as a means to raise prices.
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.
