“Open Access” fir wëssenschaftlech Publikatiounen: Wéi ass d’Positioun vun der Regierung? | LSAP d'Sozialisten

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Summary:

Google English: "Open Access for Scientific Publications: What is the position of the government?

At the "Contrat d'établissement" between the State and the University of Luxembourg, it is committed to contributing to the "mise en oeuvre de la nationalité d'accès libre politique politique" Article 6. According to Annex 2 of the same contract, the performers of the researchers are calculated on the basis of the number of scientific publications published in newspapers which are top 10% or the first quarter Q1 (= top 25%) according to the list of journalmetrics ( Scopus) or WebofScience (Thomson).

However, the commercial orientation of these two lists is in direct contrast with the national policy of "open access". Effective, Scopus is set up by the company Elsevier, who is against the "access free" and has an exorbitant pre-policy policy so many libraries are required to have their publications. The WebofScience of Thomson has to be paid for access to the list of referenced Revuë.

In order to break the monopoly of such companies we have created a lot of unions, including the University of Luxembourg Online Publishing Platforms like Orbilu, where all the members of the University of Luxembourg have to publish their publications and have a great deal of success despite the big publishers Reticens, and in these platforms, deliberately compete in their platforms and sometimes breaks up their book or articles in parallel to Orbilu, a platform that is freely available to publish...."

Link:

https://www.lsap.lu/open-access-fir-wessenschaftlech-publikatiounen-wei-ass-dpositioun-vun-der-regierung/

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oa.new oa.luxembourgish oa.luxembourg oa.government oa.policies oa.prices oa.publishers oa.monopoly oa.platforms oa.collaboration

Date tagged:

02/21/2018, 17:44

Date published:

02/21/2018, 12:44