Invitation to join Journal Observatory community event, 25th Apr 2023 15-17.00 CET
Tony Ross-Hellauer
Dear ISSI list members,
Do you agree it should be easier to find and share information on the policies and practices of journals and other publication platforms?
If so, please consider joining our Journal Observatory project community event to discuss these issues and discover more about our work!
- Date: Tuesday April 25, 2023
- Registration: https://www.journalobservatory.org/event/
The Journal Observatory project is a one-year, NWO-funded project led by CWTS (Uni. Leiden), that aims to enable high-quality infrastructure that provides information on the openness, policies and procedures of scholarly journals and other publication outlets. Specifically, we have been working to:
- Define an extensible, machine-readable and traceable way to describe the policies and practices of the various platforms involved in disseminating and evaluating scholarly works: the Scholarly Communication Platform Framework
- Demonstrate the value of this new framework by building a demonstration prototype called the Journal Observatory, a resource which combines data on journals and other publication platforms from various sources to clarify policy information for authors, reviewers and others.
As we near project completion, these outputs will shortly be made available via our website. This Journal Observatory community event will introduce the broader scholarly communications community (publishers, infrastructure providers, researchers, research funders) to the achievements of the Journal Observatory project. It will also provide a forum for broader discussion of the ongoing need for such work and sustainability of such efforts.
We hope you consider joining us for these discussions and would be very grateful if you further disseminate this information within your networks!
With best wishes,
Tony Ross-Hellauer
Dr. Tony Ross-Hellauer
Group Leader – Open and Reproducible Research Group, TU Graz
Senior Researcher (Open Science) – Know-Center GmbH
Project Coordinator (PI) TIER2 (New!) ON-MERRIT (completed)
Phone +43-316-873-32800 Fax +43-316-873-1030815