Do you want a big-picture overview of the main topics in your discipline and how they relate to each other? Who writes most with who in your field, or which journals are cited by which others? Which j...

Ten established traditions, an emerging eleventh, and why libraries need to have a more holistic view of discovery

In this Open Science Lunch, we look into Diamond Open Access publishing – publishing with neither author nor reader payment – and the movement of journals «flipping» from Toll Access or Gold OA to Dia...

Academic publishing is dominated by a small group of publishers whose platformization practices are threatening academic institutions and their values. These publishers deploy digital research and ...

Mens norske rektorer orienterer seg mot Europa, fortsetter vi å bygge vår digitale infrastruktur på amerikansk grunn. Det henger ikke sammen.

After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

Alt: a close up of a man wearing a pair of glasses with a computer screen reflected in them and data running quickly.

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…

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

NWB2025Practical informationProgramRegistrationAbout NWB The preliminary structure of the NWB 2025 program is now available. Please note that this outline is subject to revision prior to finalizati...

In early 2023, the editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS) became aware that a fake clone of the journal had started to operate, tricking authors into paying article processin...

Noroff-forskeren publiserte én artikkel hver tredje dag. Han er også den i Norge som de siste årene har fått flest artikler trukket tilbake fordi tidsskriftet de var publisert i ikke lenger kunne stå ...

Dr Tseen Khoo is an Associate Professor, Researcher Development (EMCR), with the Researcher Development Academy, Deakin University, Australia. Tseen created and runs the researcher development and …

Vi ønsker oss et modig og sosialt engasjert bibliotek som tar ansvar for å bygge en sterkere kultur for lesing, for demokratisk ordskifte og for den sakte, nyanserte kritiske tenkningen.

At Sikt-forhandlingene med forlagsgiganten Wiley strandet, fører til mange, mange millioner i reduserte kostnader. Hva skal de innsparte millionene brukes til? Finnes det modeller vi kan lære av? Det ...

Skal nye kostar i Washington få bestemma kva som er danning, spør forskarar ved Universitetet i Bergen. Både i Bergen og Oslo vert det i år for første gong arrangert Kjeldekritikkens dag, som er heilt...

Siobhan Haimé takes a look at detail the Clarivate announcement and its practical (and possibly unintentional transformational) effects.

Clarivate recently announced that it is shifting to a "subscription-based access strategy," meaning that it will no longer allow academic libraries to purchase perpetual licenses to content.