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 Report. The press release mentions the following features prominently: “The…
ReseachGate is granted a patent for (semantic) citation analysis
The Library Journal two days ago informed about an interesting patent granted to the Social Network ResearchGate: “ResearchGate Granted U.S. Patent 10,282,424: ‘Linking Documents Using Citations’“. The abstract describes the patent as follows…”Aspects of the…
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Springer Nature reaches £9.6 million agreement in the UK – not included: Nature-branded titles
According to a press release by Springer Nature there is a new contract of the group with Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The deal is based on the principle of “read and publish” and shall…
Norway and Elsevier meet a eighteen million Euro agreement including a Gold Open Access clause
The Norwegian consortium for higher education and research and the publishing house Elsevier agreed two days ago to a national license. This provides Norwegian researchers not only access to articles published in Elsevier’s journals (including…
What is Open Access about? Debates at the heart of the Open Access movement
Yesterday, the National Contact Point Open Access (Germany) sent a mail to several mailing lists in which it pointed to a list of highly cited Open Access journals. According to the mail, this list could…
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Wiley acquires the Collaborative Writing Tool Authorea
On August 17, it was announced that the collaborative writing tool Authorea had been acquired by Atypon that is in turn a part of Wiley Publishing. The posting in the Authorea blog informs that “Atypon…
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Open Access Sources in Wikipedia
In a study published two days ago, Miriam Redi, Dario Taraborelli and Jake Orlowitz examined the proportion of scientific references in Wikipedia articles that were published in Open Access. For the survey, the authors checked…
Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Wohin steuert Big Data die Wissenschaft?
Publiziert als / zitieren als: Herb, U. (2018). Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, 69(2-3), S. 81-88. DOI:10.1515/iwp-2018-0021 Zusammenfassung Taucht das Wort „Wissenschaft“ im Zusammenhang mit Big Data auf, denkt man zumeist an…
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The Netherlands reach Green Open Access Deal with Wolters Kluwer
The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has announced a Green Open Access Deal with Wolters Kluwer: “The parties have agreed that academic articles from these 27 journals will be eligible for publishing in…
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Microsoft acquires GitHub
As The Verge reports Microsoft acquires GitHub. According to The Verge GitHub was “last valued at $2 billion back in 2015, but it’s not clear exactly how much Microsoft has paid to acquire GitHub.” The…