GDPR har inte gjort oss tryggare. Tvärtom visar forskning att oron över hur personliga data samlas in och används har ökat. forskning.se/2020/04/21/gdp…

"Linking papers to data in repositories is uncommon but increasing -- & is correlated with a 25% increase in citations"

Sverige ska lyftas ur bottenträsket – nu görs en storsatsning på öppna data computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.73373… av Mattias Malmqvist

Nu kl 19:00 blir det en behaglig jazztimme direkt från Grünewaldsalen med Margareta Bengtson, sång/harpa, Mattias Ståhl, vibrafon, Pär-Ola Landin, bas och Konrad Agnas, trummor konserthuset.se/program-och-bi…

Fina P O är borta. En av 1900-talets största svenska diktare, kanske den största. dn.se/kultur-noje/p-…

Things are changing very rapidly. 79 members of the Board of Neuron urge Elsevier to offer a #plan_s compliant route to #openaccess

Springer has released over 400 science books downloadable as pdf for free as part of 'Free Textbooks and Library Link special issue during Covid 19 package'. Lots of stats books and some ecology ones as well You can search and download here: link.springer.com/search/page/1?…

Research Library Digitization Has Found Its Moment | Ithaka S+R Roger C. Schonfeld - bit.ly/3cPEFTD #academiclibrary

"It appears that Sci-Hub is in a sense complementing the gold and green open access models, with preferential coverage of disciplines that are not well-covered through legal gold and green open access models." Paywalled but this is a Shared-It link: rdcu.be/b3PoT

A new and important development as we move towards "pure publish" agreements: PLOS and Iowa State University Library announce APC-free Open Access publishing agreement blogs.plos.org/plos/2020/04/p…

China plans to radically reform its research assessment system, but what is the best alternative to Web of Science based bibliometric indicators? Lin Zhang and Gunnar Sivertsen offer some recommendations doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

"...presenting modeling results alone is not enough. Scientists must also openly share their model code so that the results can be replicated and evaluated." science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.112…

In this last installment of our series aimed at helping non-librarians better organize and maintain the books in their homes, we take a look at what is sometimes a controversial subject: getting rid of old and/or outdated books. ow.ly/aCRT50zu2nL

Looks like 2Dsearch: think outside the search box has implemented Lens.org support! Try my template search to find systematic reviews, review articles, meta-analysis etc. No login required! Default is set to do the topic "creativity" but feel free to change. (1/2) app.2dsearch.com/new-query/5eac…

Huge differences in search results on "COVID 19"|"SARS CoV 2" in search engines: Microsoft Academic 401 Google Scholar: 739 Web of Science 1646 Elsevier | Scopus 4889 NCBI PubMed 8005 The Lens The Lens: 10450 Dimensions 10595 Crossref (inactive Jan 2025) 28246 Of course there is more to that... 1/15

MAJOR NEWS: Agreement between Wiley and ResearchGate.

Sverige ska vara ett av världens främsta forsknings- och innovationsländer och det är viktigt att forskningsinfrastrukturen på nationell kan hålla en hög kvalitet, Matilda Matilda Ernkrans #forskpol regeringen.se/pressmeddeland…

#Forskningskommunikation är ett ungt men växande forskningsområde. Ännu är forskarna i Sverige få. Läs vår nya kartläggning gjord på uppdrag Vetenskapsrådet v-a.se/2020/05/forskn…

The NY Public Library has released an album of "audio landscapes" meant to evoke the sounds of being in a library, including: "rustles, taps, coughs, an echoing voice, [etc.]" Over 200,000 people have streamed the album online. via The Guardian bit.ly/2WepKNx