(2 Feb 2022) ResearchGate has made its statement over its case with Elsevier and ACS in Germany: “In a judgment Monday, the Regional Court of Munich I dismissed the damages claims filed by the scientific publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) against ResearchGate in 2017. Remarkably, the court found, based on numerous…
(26 Jan 2022) Clarivate has released a report from the company’s Institute for Scientific Information, proposing a new method for analysing the credit authors of academic papers receive via citations. In an increasingly global and collaborative world, where the number of articles naming dozens or even hundreds of researchers as authors is rapidly increasing, the…
(Jan 2022) From the report introduction: “This report presents an overview of the activities we have undertaken in 2021, the levels of OA compliance amongst cOAlition S funders, and the latest news on the tools and services we are developing, such as the Journal Checker Tool and the Journal Comparison Service. Next, we outline…
(31 Jan 2022) For the first time in Australia, an assessment of the value of persistent identifiers to research is underway. Persistent Identifiers are vital to research because they create a persistent link to a location on the internet for journal papers, data, software, physical samples and grey literature. This facilitates citation, attribution, discovery and…
(4 Feb 2022) Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) will name its library The Ngee Ann Kongsi Library and establish The Ngee Ann Kongsi Emergence Fund in recognition of this endowed gift – the biggest donation it has ever received to-date. The Ngee Ann Kongsi has formalised its intention to make a generous endowed gift…
(31 January 2022) Today’s newsletter discusses how LibKey has been enhanced with Retraction Watch data to help prevent retracted articles from being cited. The Third Iron Newsletter has the full story here.
(4 Feb 2022) Iratxe Puebla, Director of Strategic Initiatives & Community at ASAPbio, shares her tips to help preprint authors scrutinize invitations to submit their next paper to a journal. Think.Check.Submit has the article here.