German Consortium with the Open Access publisher Frontiers
The Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers signed a Memorandum of Understanding for a German Consortium with the Open Access publisher Frontiers.
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Study on the qualitative perception of Open Access
A contract study on the qualitative perception of Open Access was completed at the end of last year. The study was carried out as part...
Published: Open Research Data – SNSF monitoring report 2017-2018
Yesterday two related items were published in Zenodo’s Open Access & Open Science Research Community: Open Research Data: SNSF monitoring report 2017-2018 Abstract: The Swiss...
Flip your journals to Open Access
The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) is a non-profit Open Access platform that publishes quality-checked Open Access journals focusing on the social sciences and humanities....
Sci-Hub under suspicion of spying
A recent article in the Washington Post suggested that the shadow library Sci-Hub was using phishing to gain access to scientific publication services and then...
Taylor & Francis acquires F1000Research
As the Open Access publication service F1000Research announced on January 10th it was acquired by one of the largest publishers of scientific content: Taylor &...
Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity
Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity. It is thus further expanding its existing portfolio of science management services. Elsevier acquires the profiling service Parity According...
Google Scholar releases its Scholar Metrics 2019
Google Scholar released its journal ranking, the Scholar Metrics 2019. The new ranking can be found here. It includes journals that follow Google’s inclusion guidelines...
The next step in benchmarking in science: Clarivate Analytics launches Publisher Analytics Reports
At the beginning of June, Clarivate Analytics, vendor of the Impact database Web of Science, among others, informed about the launch of the Publisher Analytics...
Updated list of highly cited open-access journals
Yesterday the National Contact Point Open Access OA2020-DE (Germany) published an updated list of of frequently cited open-access journals. The list comprises 800 Open Access...