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Series of educational videos on Open Access

The National Library of Sweden has produced a series of educational videos on Open Access. These short videos will give you a basic understanding of Open Access in scientific publishing. Whether you are a researcher, a postgraduate student, a teaching…

LOV

LOV stands for Linked Open Vocabularies. This name is derived from LOD, standing for Linked Open Data. Let’s assume that the reader is somehow familiar with the latter concept, otherwise a visit to or will help to figure…

OntoWiki

OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text…

Citation.js

Citation.js converts formats like BibTeX, Wikidata JSON and BibJSON to CSL-JSON to convert to other formats like APA, Vancouver, RIS and back to BibTeX. Conversion from: BibTeX, CFF, DOI, ISBN and Wikidata; Conversion to: CSL-JSON, BibTeX, CFF, RIS; citeproc-js support…

2nd Open Science FAIR Conference

Open Science is a new research paradigm facing many challenges, mainly the ingrained research habits accompanied by non-incentive institutional and funder reward systems, the lack of embedded tools and services, the connection to non-academic communities. OSFair2019 is organized as an…

Practical Guidelines on Open Education for Academics

Practical Guidelines on Open Education for Academics: modernising higher education via open educational practices These guidelines are for the academic staff of higher education institutions, with the goal of helping them move towards the use of open educational practices (OEP)…

Project MUSE, scholarly journals and books

Project MUSE offers complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals and books from many of the world’s leading university presses and scholarly societies. In addition to collections, other options for accessing the content include single title purchasing and evidence-based acquisition.

Libero publishing suite

Libero publishing suite Designed for academic publishing of the digital age, Libero is an open-source platform of services and tools available for hosted and self-hosted applications. The Libero open-source platform helps scholarly publishers take a digital-first approach to everything we…

PrePostPrint, laboratory and research group

PrePostPrint is a laboratory and research group for alternative free publishing workflows. We are specifically interested in the creation of hybrid and printed publications with web technologies. PrePostPrint gathers those working with experimental publishing techniques and helps to make their…

Plaudit

Plaudit: open endorsements by the academic community. Plaudit is a simple, light-weight mechanism that allows an individual with an ORCID to endorse an object with a DOI. Plaudit is based on the open infrastructure integrated with DOIs, Crossref Event Data…

COAR Controlled Vocabulary, “Resource Type”

COAR is pleased to announce the release of the Resource Type Vocabulary, Version 2. This vocabulary, which is now available in 15 languages, provides standardized terms for different types of content contained in a repository. Controlled vocabularies ensure that “everyone…

Scite plugin

scite is a Brooklyn-based startup advancing citations with the introduction of smart citations. Using deep learning scite has classified 450 million citation statements from 14 million scientific articles that support, contradict, or mention prior research. Scite is used by researchers…