Millions of researchers could be affected by a “dramatic distortion of citation counts” likely caused by flaws in how the academic publishing giant Springer Nature handles article metadata, accordi…

JST（理事長 橋本和仁）とORCID, Inc.（エグゼクティブ・ディレクター Chris Shillum）は、令和7年3月28日、戦略的パートナーシップに関する覚書（MOC）を締結しました。

As more research funders adopt randomisation, the British Academy explains why it has used partial randomisation to allocate its Small Research Grants scheme.

Today, Alice Meadows shares some learnings from MoreBrains Cooperative's recent cost-benefit analysis of persistent identifiers, conducted on behalf of the Czech National Library of Technology (NTK).

The ACRL AI Competencies for Library Workers Task Force invites your feedback on a draft of proposed "AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers" (PDF). The working group is following ACRL procedure...

Background and objective Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have expanded their applications in medical and healthcare settings. LLMs have demonstrated high performance in various na...

(Image: CERN) A flagship CERN open science programme – the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) – celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2024. It is a one-of-a-kind partnership between CERN and more than 3000 libraries, funding bodies, research institutes and intergovernmental organisations from across the world who, through collective action, have transformed research publishing in the discipline to make it open access, without any fees for readers or authors.   Having sustained this service as a global public good for a decade, SCOAP3 now aims to foster the general advancement of open science. To this end, it has introduced a new Open Science Mechanism, which will financially incentivise participating publishers based on their adoption of open-science practices. The mechanism will begin in January 2025, coinciding with the start of the fourth phase of SCOAP3. “By incentivising publishers, who play a key role in interfacing with researchers, we aim not only to improve the quality of their publishing services, but also to advance the community’s adoption of open-science practices,” says Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science at CERN.  “This will help foster accelerated, efficient, reproducible and transparent research in particle physics.” The Open Science Mechanism will assess the performance of publishers in delivering certain open-science-related elements in their publishing workflows, such as adopting persistent identifiers (ORCiDs and RORs) for authors and institutions; improving the availability of linked data and software related to research articles; enriching article metadata for enhanced discoverability; improving accessibility and encouraging the adoption of open peer review practices. Publishers will further be incentivised to disclose their efforts on matters related to sustainability, data privacy, financial transparency and diversity, equity and inclusion. These will be made publicly available on the SCOAP3 website. Over the last ten years, SCOAP3 has established barrier-free open-access publishing as the disciplinary norm, and has almost doubled in size to include supporters from almost fifty countries. It has centrally funded the open-access publishing of more than 70 000 articles across 11 leading particle physics journals, and is also the principal mechanism by means of which CERN’s researchers comply with the CERN Open Access Policy, automatically funding around 50% of the Organization’s research publications. A meeting in December 2013 before the signing of SCOAP3. (Image: CERN) In recent years, SCOAP3 has expanded the scope of its efforts to support the availability of more than 100 relevant open-access textbooks and monographs through an ongoing books initiative. “SCOAP3 has grown significantly in both size and scope over the past decade,” continues Naim. “As any collective action is only as strong as its base of support, we hope to see the SCOAP3 community grow further in the coming years with the addition of new members across non-participating CERN Member States, Associate Member States and beyond.”  Find out more: SCOAP3 website CERN Open Science website How can I use CERN’s Open Science Office?

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Japan will start allocating the ¥10 billion it promised to spend on institutional repositories to make the nation’s science free to read.

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From job markets, to housing prices, to shifting quality standards, academia is arranged in a way that benefits senior faculty to the detriment of early career researchers argues Kyle Siler. In the…