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Open AccessScholCommDiamond Open AccessGold Open AccessOpen Access TransformationOther Social Sciences
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Author Ulrich Herb

In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and myself) were published. On Diamond Open Access &

Research AssessmentResearch InformationResearch IntegrityScholarly PublishingOther Social Sciences
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Author Ulrich Herb

The Summa Cum Fraude team dealt with retractions as part of a university project. As the person responsible for the open access repository at my university and member of this team, I am particularly interested in whether and how articles that have been retracted in a journal are still available as regular (non-retracted) articles in Open Access repositories.

Open AccessScholCommDiamond Open AccessOther Social Sciences
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This week, I had some encounters with Diamond Open Access that got me thinking, especially about the connotations of “Diamond Open Access”. These include invoice-like payment requests from a Diamond Open Access platform, editors switching their journal from Hybrid to Diamond Open Access, purchase offers for Diamond Open Access journals and the intention of the German Research Foundation DFG to set up a service centre to further develop and

ScholCommDEAL ContractsElsevierGermanyGold Open AccessOther Social Sciences
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Author Ulrich Herb

As some people abroad were interested in my earlier posts on the German DEAL contracts, I have decided to summarise here some key points of the new contracts with Wiley, Springer Nature and Elsevier. The three contracts differ in some aspects, but at least there are two issue they have in common: They are opt-in contracts , only those organisations that actively join the contract will benefit from the conditions.

ScholCommUlrich's NotesScidecode ProjectsSumma Cum FraudeOther Social Sciences
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Author Ulrich Herb

As the year nears its end, it’s time for a look back at 2023 … My university job Summa cum Fraude In 2023, a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) entitled Summa cum Fraude ended, which was dedicated to the question of how journals/publishers react to reports of obviously faked/erroneous publications – usually, soberingly, not at all.

LibrariesOpen AccessOther Social Sciences
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Author Ulrich Herb

On May 31st 2022, I gave a presentation at the German Library Congress (BiblioCon), specifically during the public session of the German Library Association (dbv) Commission for Acquisition and Collection Development, and this is an updated version of the original posting.

ScholCommAPCsArticle Processing ChargesOpen AccessOther Social SciencesGerman
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APC-Verwaltung in Bibliotheken Am 31.05. halte ich einen Vortrag beim diesjährigen Bibliothekskongress, und zwar in der öffentlichen Sitzung der dbv-Kommission Erwerbung und Bestandsentwicklung.

InfrastructurePersistent IdentifierPID LandscapeOther Social Sciences
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Pablo de Castro (University of Strathclyde), Laura Rothfritz, research assistant and PhD candidate at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin, Joachim Schöpfel (Université de Lille) and I will do a study on Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (KE). The project aims to identify the best possible strategic

ScholCommOther Social SciencesGerman
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Unter dem Titel “Kalibrierung der Wissenschaft – wohin führt uns die Digitalisierung?” veranstaltet das Internationale Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT) in Stuttgart eine virtuelle Podiumsdiskussion zur datengetriebenen Wissenschaftssteuerung, an der auch ich teilnehme wegen meiner Publikationen zu Datenkapitalismus in der Wissenschaft. Die Veranstaltung startet morgen um 18:00 Uhr und endet um 20:00 Uhr.