Top Topics – Publishing
There is discontent in academia: at some universities, researchers are now receiving invoices for publishing their results. At the same time, initiatives are calling for “disempowering the publishers”. However, leaving the publishing business to professionals makes sense, counters the German Chemical Society. Article by Brigitte Osterath in Nachrichten aus der Chemie. Members can access it in the GDCh app at https://gdch.app/article/publikationsgebuehren-in-der-kritik-4153637.
Thanks to the DEAL agreement, researchers at German universities can now read most papers in the journals published by Wiley, Elsevier and Springer Nature free of charge. Instead, publishing is paid for, as stipulated by the publish-and-read licence. The model is currently causing discontent at several institutions. Article by Brigitte Osterath in Nachrichten aus der Chemie. Members can access it in the GDCh app at https://gdch.app/article/mit-projekt-deal-laeuft-nicht-alles-rund-4148193.
ChemRxiv has grown into the premier preprint server for the chemical sciences, with a global audience and a wide array of scholarly content. On the service's fifth anniversary, we would like to reflect on the past five years and take a look at what is next for ChemRxiv. Article by Dr. Benjamin Mudrak,Sara Bosshart,Prof. Dr. Wolfram Koch,Allison Leung,Dr. Donna Minton,Dr. Mitsuo Sawamoto and Sarah Tegen in Angewandte Chemie/Int. Edition (Free Access)
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The American Chemical Society, the German Chemical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry announce their partnership with the Chinese Chemical Society and the Chemical Society of Japan as co-owners. Further information. More about ChemRxiv, the open-access preprint archive for chemistry
On 1 July 2019, the agreement between Project DEAL, which represents almost 700 academic institutions in Germany as a consortium, and the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. came into force. The agreement had been concluded in January 2019. Among other things, the contract stipulates that researchers at Project DEAL institutions may publish articles as “Open Access” in Wiley journals. Further information
In September 2018, eleven research funding organisations from Europe (cOAlition S) published the so-called Plan S, which defines, in ten principles, the framework for the transition to open access for research results funded by these organisations by 2020. Read the statement in German and English.
The American Chemical Society (ACS), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) are entering into a cooperation to advance the financial and strategic development of ChemRxiv, the preprint server for the global chemistry community.
At its meeting in December 2013, the GDCh Board adopted the position paper “On the Future of Scholarly Publishing”. The paper was prepared by a 13-member commission chaired by the GDCh President, Professor Barbara Albert, on the basis of a GDCh discussion paper produced in 2004 entitled “On Open Access to Scholarly Knowledge (Open Access)”. Download the position paper (PDF)
NFDI4Chem is the chemistry consortium, and NFDI4Cat is the catalysis consortium, within the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) initiative. The aims of NFDI4Chem and NFDI4Cat are to digitise all important steps in chemical research in order to support scientists in collecting, storing, processing, analysing, publishing and reusing research data. The GDCh is involved in both consortia. Further information on NFDI4Chem and NFDI4Cat