A post – “The more the merrier or how more registered grants means more relationships with outputs” – was published in the Crossref blog last Feb highlighting the progress around the issuing of Crossref DOI-based grant IDs achieved by the European Union as a research funder. This involved having DOI-based grant IDs minted for thousands […]
Ongoing dissemination for the Knowledge Exchange PID Study
As mentioned in our last post in February, once the report and the case studies were published for the work on the current PIDs landscape and its associated risks and trust-related issues, we are now in the midst of its dissemination activity. This post provides an update on the forthcoming events where this Knowledge Exchange […]
The outcomes of the Knowledge Exchange project on PIDs have now been published. The dissemination work is just starting
Some 16 months after the Thu Sep 23rd, 2021 kick-off meeting for the „Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research“ project by the Knowledge Exchange, the bulk of its outcomes have now been published. This includes a report („Building the plane as we fly it: the promise of […]
Improving Open Access publishing standards in the Law and wider HSS disciplines
This week the scidecode team met in person again (just for the second time, the first one having been in Utrecht last Oct) to discuss how to approach a new project in the area of Open Access (and publishing standards) for the Humanities and Social Sciences and specifically for Law. Recent times have seen a […]
Gradual release for the outputs of the work on PIDs for the Knowledge Exchange
As we approach the end of 2022, the work for our Knowledge Exchange-commissioned project „Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well-functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research“ is by now largely complete. The final report “Building the Plane as We Fly It: The Promise of Persistent Identifiers” and the remaining case studies are still to […]
Case Study: The role of research funders in the consolidation of the PID landscape
The first case study „The role of research funders in the consolidation of the PID landscape“ from our study on Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure for research commissioned by Knowledge Exchange (KE) is published. It was mainly written by Pablo de Castro with some support from Laura Rothfritz, Joachim Schöpfel and […]
Published : Some reflections on the current PID landscape
Earlier this month, the article „Some reflections on the current PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues“ was published, giving an interim report from the scidecode project on „Risks and Trust in pursuit of a well functioning Persistent Identifier infrastructure“ , the project itself is almost finished. Knowledge Exchange, which commissioned […]
Changes at scidecode
In March 2012, parallel to my work as an employee for Saarland University, I started freelancing as a science consultant. In addition to lecturing, expert papers and audit studies were soon in demand, e.g. for Inscico or the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. Joachim Schöpfel made it possible for me to work with him on studies […]
Some reflections on the current Persistent Identifier PID landscape
On the 12th of May 2022 my colleague Pablo de Castro (University of Strathclyde, euroCRIS) gave a presentation with the title „Some reflections on the current Persistent Identifier PID landscape – with an emphasis on risks and trust issues“ at the CRIS2022 conference in Dubrovnik. The contribution describes the approach and first results of a […]
Erfolgreich in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften publizieren
Am 25.01.2022 hielt ich einen Vortrag zum Thema „Erfolgreich in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften publizieren“ für die Hochschule Ansbach. Der eher kurze Beitrag von 75 Minuten streifte folgende Themen: die Rolle der Qualitätssicherung wissenschaftlicher Publikationen die Relevanz der Qualitäts-/Resonanzmessung wissenschaftlicher Publikationsorgane sowie von Ratings/Rankings die Unterscheidung von Open Access vs. Closed Access Vermarktung und Identifizierbarkeit: Attribution, Outreach […]