Plan S: Mixed Outcomes in Advancing Open Access Publishing
Plan S, an initiative by European funders to increase open access to journal articles, has led to progress, but not in the way originally intended. Although it aimed to dismantle…
On Diamond Open Access & Transformative Agreements
In September, a journalistic article on Diamond Open Access (by Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal and myself) and a preprint on Transformative Open Access Agreements (by Laura Rothfritz, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal, and…
Retractions in Web of Science and OpenAlex
The Summa Cum Fraude team dealt with retractions as part of a university project. As the person responsible for the open access repository at my university and member of this…
The German DEAL contracts
As some people abroad were interested in my earlier posts on the German DEAL contracts, I have decided to summarise here some key points of the new contracts with Wiley,…
A look back at 2023
As the year nears its end, it’s time for a look back at 2023 … My university job Summa cum Fraude In 2023, a project funded by the German Research…
Open Access: APC management in libraries
On May 31st 2022, I gave a presentation at the German Library Congress (BiblioCon), specifically during the public session of the German Library Association (dbv) Commission for Acquisition and Collection…
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Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Wohin steuert Big Data die Wissenschaft?
Publiziert als / zitieren als:Herb, U. (2018). Zwangsehen und Bastarde. Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis, 69(2-3), S. 81-88. DOI:10.1515/iwp-2018-0021 Zusammenfassung Taucht das Wort „Wissenschaft“ im Zusammenhang mit Big Data auf,…
Open Access: Von Inklusion zu Exklusivität?
Anlässlich der Open-Access-Tage 2017 in Dresden referierte ich in der Session „Debatten“ dazu, inwiefern sich Open Access zu einem kommerziellen und exklusiven Modell entwickelt. Es existiert auch eine zitierfähige Version…
Commercial Open Access Publishers in the DOAJ
On August 1, 2017, 9,621 journals were listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).Only 32 publishers published more than 20 of these journals and thus have a quantitatively…
„Das ist unkollegial!“ – Aber warum sollte man umsonst arbeiten?
Vor Jahren entschloss ich mich, eine Promotion in Informationswissenschaft anzugehen. Das Vorhaben dümpelte lange vor sich hin und nahm erst Fahrt auf, als ich meine Stelle an der Saarländischen Universitäts-…