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Spotlight: Choosing a journal for your research

From Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL): A new guide with tips for researchers on how to choose a journal for their research. Publishing choices are often influenced by researchers’ desire to ensure timely and wide dissemination of their research results while at the same time meeting requirements set by their institutions and/or research funders, as well as requirements that researchers need to meet for research evaluation, assessment and promotion. General advice from the EIFL guide: Indexation in databases such as the Web of Science or Scopus isn’t a warranty of quality. If you are required by your institution or funder […]

Open Access Week 2023: Community over Commercialization

OA week news & events @ MIT Next week is the 15th anniversary of International Open Access Week, a celebration of the open sharing of research knowledge in scholarly publications like journals, proceedings, and books. The 2023 theme is “Community over Commercialization,” which asks us to explore approaches to open scholarship that share the values of the research community and public, and to consider those that do not. When commercial interests are prioritized over those of the communities that research seeks to serve, many concerning issues arise. A couple of examples: Costs to subscribe to and publish in journals can […]