by Katy Nelson | Jun 29, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Academic institutions and governmental agencies in South Africa have signed the Confederation of Open Access Repositories’ (COAR) petition against scholarly publishing giant Elsevier and its new sharing policy. They join a host of institutions from around the...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Open data, Open scholarship, Research impact
The Online Community Library Center (OCLC) has released a new book about their work with library linked data. The book is called Library Linked Data in the Cloud: OCLC's Experiments with New Models of Resource Description. Read more about it...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 25, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Springer, the scholarly publishing giant, has acquired three important open access journals: Living Reviews in Relativity, Living Reviews in Solar Physics and Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics. The earliest of these journals was launched in 1998 by...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 23, 2015 | News, Open scholarship
Researchers ar the National Bureau of Economic Research are examining what effect a retraction has on a scholar’s citations. Read about their methods and findings at Science Mag. The working paper can be found here.
by Katy Nelson | Jun 18, 2015 | News, Research impact
Last Thursday, Thompson Reuters released their annual Journal Citation Report (JCR) which includes its very influential Journal Impact Factor (JIF). The Report can be accessed through the library website. Read more about the report, the JIF and other citation metric...
