A little bibliography on criteria for assessing the quality of scientific documents
nnAs mentioned before I work on a literature review focusing on criteria for assessing the quality of scientific documents. As I found in the Web...
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Florence Piron on „Postcolonial Open Access“
Another article from the anthology „Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access“ is online. Florence Piron published her contribution „Postcolonial Open Access“ available on the...
Elena Šimukovič on „Open Access, a New Kind of Emerging Knowledge Regime?“
Following Jutta Haider and Richard Poynder, Elena Šimukovič has now published her contribution to the anthology „Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access“ online.nnElena made...
A lack of literature on qualitative aspects of scientific articles?
Working on a literature review I am looking for publications on the perceived quality of scientific literature. I use the Web of Science, Scopus and...
Books per Publisher: Data from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
nnThe Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is considered to be an important registry for quality-checked Open Access books – even if not all peer...
Jutta Haider on „Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science“
As mentioned in this blog, Joachim Schöpfel and I will publish the anthology „Open Divide? Critical Studies on Open Access“ in Spring 2018. The book...
Webinar der Wikimedia Foundation zu Open Access am 31. Januar
nnDas Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen der Wikimedia Foundation veranstaltet am 31.01.2018 ein Webinar zu Open Access, weitere Informationen finden sich unter: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2018/01/15/fellow-programm-freies-wissen-webinar-zu-open-access-am-31-januar/.nnDas Fellow-Programm geht zurück auf...
News about the Elsevier agreement in Finland
A few hours ago, Elsevier issued a press release on the agreement with the Finnish consortium FinElib that put an end to the #nodealnoreview boycott. Below...
WordPress as a tool for the publication of scientific journals
nnYesterday, Piotr Otręba asked on the Radical Open Access mailing list for themes and plugins to use WordPress as an Open Access Repository. I also...
Finnish consortium FinELib reaches agreement with Elsevier
While in Germany the boycott of the publisher Elsevier which was initiated by the DEAL project continues, an agreement was reached in Finland between Elsevier...