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 …
The academic book supply market has long played second fiddle to the world of scholarly journals: library book budgets suffered for years as libraries made room for challenging journal price increases. Significant attention was paid to the journals world when librarians tried to stop the acquisition of Academic Press by Elsevier in 2000 and since …
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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 …
Not Home Alone So, let’s cover off the domestic situation first: managed to get daughter and granddaughter on the plane to Vancouver before it became almost impossible to do so. Youngest son is home from Liverpool Uni and wondering what his Year 2 exam regime is going to look like. We compare notes on how …
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