April 8, 2017 – Access

Citations are more than merely assigning credit – their inclusion (or not) conditions how colleagues regard and evaluate your work

Metadata, UncategorizedApril 8, 2017

(6 April 2017) The significance of citations goes far beyond energising and rewarding academic competition. Patrick Dunleavy in the LSE Impact Blog outlines why citations are so important; from setting up a specialist discourse in an economical and highly-focused manner, guiding readers seeking to follow your extended chain of reasoning, right through to showing you…

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Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) launches with early success

Metadata, PublishersApril 8, 2017

(6 April 2017) There is fresh momentum in the scholarly publishing world to open up data on the citations that link research publications. Six organizations today announced the establishment of the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC): OpenCitations, the Wikimedia Foundation, PLOS, eLife, DataCite, and the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Until recently,…

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Launch of “Rights, Action and Social Responsibility” initiative

eBooks, eJournals, Open Access, PublishersApril 8, 2017

(6 April 2017, Berlin and Boston) De Gruyter and a number of prestigious university presses are making books and journal articles across nine topical areas freely available until the end of 2017 on http://degruyter.com/. Broadening access to these areas of scholarship enables more people, including non-academics, to address these issues in an informed manner: it…

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