Hot on the heels of DORA turning 10, there’s another anniversary for Open Science advocates to commemorate. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) turned 20 on 12 May 2023, and indexes (you guessed it!) open access journals. The DOAJ was launched in the wake of the Budapest Open Access Initiative - a declaration to …
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LibrarySearch is an excellent place to start any search for information. LibrarySearch works most effectively when you are looking for material held by Brookes, such as a print or electronic book on a module reading list, or an article within a journal to which we subscribe. The strengths of LibrarySearch are that it integrates with …
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The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) is 10 years old on 16 May 2023. In 2012, a group of scholarly journal editors and publishers met to discuss ways of improving how scientific research is evaluated by funding agencies, academic institutions, and other parties. Journal Impact Factors, which were originally created as tools to …
When searching on LibrarySearch and some of our other Library databases, or online, you may sometimes see a button or flag saying a journal article has been retracted. What does that mean, and can you still refer to the article in your work? If an article has been retracted, that means it has been withdrawn …
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It is not unusual for universities and other research organisations to pay publishers twice: Paying to publish: If a researcher wishes a paper to be published Gold Open Access, then an article processing charge may be paid by the university.Paying to read: The university library may then buy a subscription to a package of journals …
https://youtu.be/6umhqr5gGj4 LibKey Nomad is a browser extension that provides instant links to full text content for articles as you research on the web. Nomad works with Oxford Brookes Library to find the fastest path to content across thousands of publisher websites. You can add the browser extension to any of these browsers: Google ChromeFirefoxMicrosoft EdgeBraveVivaldi …
BrowZine is a new product that we’ve introduced to help you explore and use our electronic journals more easily. BrowZine revisits the world of browsing journals across all our online collection, and the joy of serendipity that comes with it, in a simple and highly attractive user interface adorned with the colour and splendor of …
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