September 30, 2021
Speaking of the draft UNESCO recommendations, I missed this April announcement: Today, LA Referencia, RedCLARA and the three African regional research and education networks – ASREN, WACREN and UbuntuNet Alliance – signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
September 29, 2021
Agata Morka, reporting last year on an OA-books funding workshop: In the Nordic countries, there are official lists, with separate ratings for journals and for book publishers (Norwegian one (also used in Sweden), Danish and Finish [sic] one). They are used in various...
September 23, 2021
From the draft UNESCO open science recommendations: Considering science as a global public good, open science services should be viewed as essential research infrastructures, governed and owned by the community and funded collectively by governments, funders and...
September 21, 2021
The Budapest Open Access Initiative is almost 20: The Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) - the first international open access declaration - will celebrate its 20th anniversary on 14 February 2022. In preparation, the BOAI2020 steering committee is working on a...
September 16, 2021
From an Inside Higher Ed story on a pair of new reports measuring the program-specific "return on investment" at U.S. colleges and universities: Among those earning bachelor’s degrees, the Third Way report found that 100 percent of nursing and engineering...
