While Finland entered into a nationwide consortium with the publishing house Elsevier, the neighbouring country Sweden did not take this step. After twenty years of business relationships with Elsevier, the Bibsam Consortium decided not to…
Clarivate Analytics acquires Kopernio
Clarivate Analytics, owner of the database Web of Science and services as publons, acquired Kopernio. Kopernio facilitates the search for Open Access documents. For pay-walled articles to which you have no access, Kopernio is looking…
Stagnating Open Science compliance for doctoral theses?
When citing or referring please provide this DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.6714038nnRecently, I gathered data from the Bielefeld Search Engine BASE on the percentage of journal articles, books and doctoral theses published Open Access, licensed under Creative Commons Licenses…
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Open Access zwischen Revolution und Goldesel – Verlagsversion online
nnUnter Nutzung der Open-Access-Policy des Verlages De Gruyter publizierte ich eben die Verlagsversion zu einem vor einem Jahr erschienen Artikel auf Zenodo:nnHerb, U. (2017). Open Access zwischen Revolution und Goldesel. Eine Bilanz fünfzehn Jahre nach…
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Austria agrees with Wiley on a national Open Access consortium
The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and Cooperation E-Medien Österreich (KEMÖ) have signed a three-year contract with the publishing house John Wiley and Sons Inc. that combines the use of Closed Access content and the publication…
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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 reviewed books are listed there. Two days ago, on 23.01.2018,…
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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 you will find some information about it: nn n n…
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 and the FinElib consortium, but the details are still unclear.…
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Concentration in Commercial Open Access: Data from the University of Stockholm
nnStockholm University Library has monitored gold and hybrid publication charges (or Article Processing Charges APCs) for Open Access publishing at Stockholm University. The results are published on OpenAccess.se in a short posting by Lisa Lovén andnLiisa…
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Springer Nature acquires E-Learning Platform Iversity
nnAfter Iversity‘s insolvency in 2016 the Holtzbrinck Group invested in Iversity. Some days ago Springer Nature‘s acquisition of the e-learning startup was reported.nnIversity’s news on the acquisition (in German language) provides some more information, here…
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