The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Welche Regeln des Urheberrechts gelten für die freien darstellenden Künste? Was müssen Personen beachten, die Aufnahmen aus diesem Bereich beim Digitalen Archiv der Freien Darstellenden Künste hochladen oder nachnutzen wollen? Diese und mehr Fragen beantwortet die neu erschienene Handreichung. Über die Inhalte gibt es hier einen kurzen Überblick.
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Israel and the US have accused the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) of being an ‘obstacle to peace’. But many of UNRWA’s shortcomings are a deliberate product of its original set-up – which was engineered by the US itself and supported by Israel.
Crossref was created back in 2000 by 12 forward-thinking scholarly publishers from North America and Europe, and by 2002, these members had registered 4 million DOI records. At the time of writing, we have over 23,600 members in 164 different countries.
This month’s news includes: Research software community news, including South Africa’s National Science and Technology Forum Research Software Awards Research Software Community Leadership Forum (CLF) IRSC Program Committee Opportunities to get involved with community initiatives Resources Community events, including eResearch NZ / eRangahau Aotearoa 2026 Read the November newsletter
We are pleased to announce the publication of our fourth guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Publikations- und Kostenmonitoring: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access Repositorien” (available in German only). Matthias, L., Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O., & Rothfritz, L. (2025).
The global productivity increase in science is reducing the willingness of researchers to perform peer review. To bring the production of manuscripts and reviews in line with each other, I propose a global publishing credit club. Members of the club receive credits for peer review reports that they complete.
Im September 2018 hatte die aus nationalen europäischen Forschungsförderern und dem European Research Council (ERC) zusammengesetzte cOAlition S den so genannten Plan S vorgelegt, nach dem ab 2021 sämtliche Publikationen aus mit öffentlichen oder privaten Mitteln von nationalen, regionalen und internationalen Förderorganisationen finanzierten Forschung Open Access erscheinen sollte.
For decades, global health policy has approached mental illness primarily as a clinical challenge, a condition to be managed within the walls of hospitals and clinics by medical professionals. This biomedical focus, while essential, has often obscured the broader context in which mental health is shaped.