(27 Jun 2023) Funder and publisher mandates, coupled with a growing emphasis on open science and reproducibility, mean that researchers are increasingly depositing data alongside their publications. Other scientists can use those data to drive new research. But not every journal requires that authors make their data sets available, and some authors decline to do…
(20 Jun 2023) Since its introduction nearly a decade ago, impact assessment for universities has been adopted in numerous locations around the world. With two recent announcements from international governmental bodies around the role of impact in future exercises – and at least another expected – we can observe several trends emerging. Read more…
(29 Jun 2023) Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have now adopted version 4.0 of the Creative Commons BY-SA license! The project first began using version 3.0 of the CC licenses in 2009 following a community process, having previously used the GNU Free Documentation License. This decision, made as part of a Terms of Use revision…
(27 Jun 2023) LPC is delighted to announce the publication of Version 2.0 of An Ethical Framework for Library Publishing. A dedicated task force worked for two years to draft this update to the Library Publishing Coalition’s 2018 Framework. The result is a remarkably different document, structured to orient library publishers to how they might proceed…
(26 Jun 2023) The Journal of Applied Remote Sensing (JARS) has honored four of its best papers published in 2022. The awards recognize the journal’s best student paper, as well as papers in interdisciplinary applications, theoretical innovation, and photo-optical instrumentation and design. JARS is published online in the SPIE Digital Library by SPIE, the…
(29 Jun 2023) Earlier this week, Newsguard, a company that provides tools for vetting news sources, released a report on “Unreliable AI-Generated News and Information websites” or UAINs. According to the report, their UAIN site tracker has already grown from 49 sites to 277. They claim that the sites have generic-sounding names, but feature news…
(20 Jun 2023) Two-thirds of the more than 2300 scientific journals participating in a program designed to flip them to open access (OA) failed to meet prescribed targets for progress in 2022. As a result, the Coalition S group of research funders behind the initiative announced today that it will remove these journals from the program…
Jewish books stolen by Nazis during World War II returned to Prague — by way of Washington University Libraries (17 Jun 2023) For decades, WashU librarians didn’t realize that tucked among the Brisman Collection were 30 volumes that bore a stamp revealing a longer, and more disturbing, journey. Thirty years before the books’ arrival in…
(28 Jun 2023) Today marks the 2023 release of the annual Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™). You will notice that this year, it looks a little different – so this blog will walk you through what’s new and what future changes you can expect to see as we seek to continuously improve these reports. We are…
(21 Jun 2023) India has cemented its position as the world’s third-largest producer of research output, surpassing the United Kingdom, according to data presented at a joint seminar organized by the Ministry of Education and Elsevier. The seminar, held in preparation for the 4th G20 Education Working Group meeting, emphasized the critical role of accessible science…