by Jeroen Bosman & Bianca Kramer [updated 20170328 to include the Open Science definition from Foster] These days there seems to be a real surge in all things open science. At least it’s the talk of the town. Having visited the Open Science Conference 2017 in Berlin and witnessing the many discussions on Twitter at the…

[January 11, 2017: update added at the end of the post] While there are many reasons not to use the journal impact factor (IF) for the assessment of individual research articles, researchers or research groups, its use for this purpose is still widespread, particularly in the sciences. Members of all parties involved (researchers, research institutions…

Jeroen Bosman & Bianca Kramer Crick Institute – October 19, London. Some 35 researchers and 20 publishers, funders and librarians gather at the brand new magnificent Francis Crick Institute premises, between the equally magnificent St. Pancras railway station and the British Library. The Crick Institute is a partnership between the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research…

Zoals overal waar geld verdiend kan worden, zijn er ook in het open access veld kapers op de kust. In de afgelopen 10 jaar zijn er tal van partijen opgestaan die het open access uitgeefmodel – waarbij de auteur moet betalen voor publicatie van zijn/haar artikel – misbruiken, met als enig doel om geld te…

[20160330 update: de data zullen niet op 1 April maar op 15 April beschikbaar worden gesteld] Op 10 februari is onze wereldwijde enquete ‘Innovations in Scholarly Communication’ gesloten. In de afgelopen 9 maanden hebben we meer dan 20.000 responses ontvangen, mede dankzij >90 organisaties (vnl. universiteiten en uitgevers) die de survey onder hun achterban verspreid hebben. Door vertalingen in…

Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals , or Uopen Journals, provides a publishing platform for ambitious researchers or editorial boards (Utrecht University related) that wish to publish an online open access journal. On a daily basis the publishing team offers advice and support to editorial boards regarding various publishing processes, online marketing, and open access…