The institutional subscription to OpenEdition Fremium allows the UC Berkeley community to participate in an acquisition policy that supports sustainable development of OA. As such, thousands of ebooks and journals are discoverable through the portal or through the Library’s catalogs and bibliographic search tools. The OpenEdition platform is a knowledge dissemination portal whose founder was awarded by the CNRS Innovation Medal in July 2016.

The topic of text and data mining has an importance for researchers, but also for the industry. For the researchers, getting access to the publications of their pairs is a daily necessity, that has its consequences. If we gave access to research data, the gears of data mining certainly would work at full capacity to reveal information that might be surprising. This could go in one direction : more scientific discoveries.  (Article in French)

The problem of low quality open access journals is overemphasized, writes Witold Kieńć, social media specialist at De Gryter, analysing the results of Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author’s Survey. 67% of the respondents know a high quality open access journal dealing with their research topic.  Authors who published more papers in the last 3 years than their average disciplinary colleagues are more likely to know a top-tier OA venue.

Academic publishing is more ethically complicated than you might think. From plagiarism to fraud and the ‘publish or perish’ culture at universities… Virginia Barbour, Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics, thinks these are wicked problems with no easy solutions.

but accepting the complexity may at least help to understand what it is that needs to be solved.

The Amsterdam Call for Action on Open Science is the key outcome of the two-day conference ‘Open Science – From Vision to Action’ organised by Dutch State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science Sander Dekker as part of the Netherlands EU Presidency. The aim is to provide access to scientific publications in open access, not only for reseachers and students, but also to anyone who need to access the publications. The EU has adopted two main goals: full open access for all publicly funded scientific publications by 2020, and Open Data as the standard for all publicly funded research.