The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship

how to assess the contribution of single authors in large teams recommendations of the Life, Environment and Geosciences Committee of Science Europe.

Acknowledging Contributions in Bibliometric Analysis Current authorship-based evaluation schemes should require that multi-authored publications contain a description of individual contributions to the collaborative project. Evaluators could seek to adopt systems already used by some publishers of peer-reviewed journals. Researchers are requested to provide, upon submission of an article for publication, a detailed contribution list describing … Read more

PASTEUR4OA/PASTEUR4OA – Open Access Policy Alignment STrategies for European Union Research

PASTEUR4OA supports the aim of encouraging the development of matching policies on Open Access and Open Data in the European Union, according to the European Commission’s recent Recommendation on “Access to and preservation of scientific information” (July 2012) and in view of maximizing alignment with the Horizon 2020 policy on access to the research funded … Read more