Mikael Laakso, as a member of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 expert group on the Future of Scholarly Publishing and scholarly Communication, explains the necessity of building up a public infrastructure for open access, its benefits and the obstacles on the way.
Wiley and Projekt DEAL, a representative of nearly 700 academic institutions in Germany, have established a groundbreaking partnership for Germany to pilot new publishing models, better enable researchers to create and disseminate knowledge through Wiley’s journals, and continue to provide participating German institutions access to Wiley’s portfolio of academic journals.
Under an annual fee, this transformative three-year agreement provides all Projekt DEAL institutions with access to read Wiley’s academic journals back to the year 1997, and researchers at Projekt DEAL institutions can publish articles open access in Wiley’s journals.
In scholarly communication, the growth of preprint repositories over the last three decades as a new model of scholarly publishing has emerged as one of the major developments. Using preprint repositories as a case study, this article situates them in a scholarly web, examining their salient features, benefits, and futures. However, for the preprint repositories to sustain, scholarly communities and funding agencies should support continued investment in open knowledge, alternative metrics development, and open infrastructures in scholarly publishing.
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services is organising its annual conference.
Topic: Creating strategic solutions in a technology-driven marketplace
The benefits of semantic search and artificial intelligence will be discussed.
In Athens, IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) will organize a satellite meeting with IFLA National Libraries Section. The call for proposals has recently been published.
Deadline: March 1, 2019.
The programme is online.
Registration is open.
IFLA Serials and Other Continuing Resources Section (SOCRS) and IFLA Committee on Standards are joining to organize an open session on Standards Relating to Serials, Continuing Resources and Scholarly Communications.
Deadline to submit a proposal is March 1st, 2019.
cOAlition S is a group of national research funding organizations and charitable foundations who have agreed to implement the 10 principles of Plan S in a coordinated way. cOAlition S has solicited public feedback on its guidance for implementation. Harvard Library and the MIT Libraries have jointly issued their recommendations in response.
A survey carried out by the Think. Check. Submit. initiative has revealed a strong demand from both researchers and librarians for guidance about where to publish and an appreciation of the services that the initiative offers. However, it also revealed a need for further educational resources and wider reach for the initiative. In-depth analysis of the findings is still ongoing. In 2019, the committee will focus on extending the reach of the initiative and further developing educational resources to assist researchers and librarians worldwide.
STM’s Annual Frankfurt Conference has established itself as the ‘sell out’ event prior to the Book Fair.
