Mardi, le 19 janvier 2010 entre 7 et 7h45 heures, le Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat va procéder à un update du logiciel du portail (nouvelle version 4.3 de ExLibris Metalib). Le portail bnu sera inaccessible pendant cette période.
Author: PP
Waiting for disruption of scientific publishing
Looking back on 2009, there was one particular note that seemed to sound repeatedly, resonating through the professional discourse at conferences and in posts throughout the blogosphere: the likelihood of disruptive change afoot in the scientific publishing industry. (…)
Consortium portal offline thursday 10th dec 7-9am
Proxy server is moved to a shiny new rack.
Jeudi, le 10 décembre 2009 entre 7 et 9 heures le Centre des technologies de l’information de l’Etat va déplacer le serveur Proxy dans une nouvelle armoire. Le portail bnu sera inaccessible pendant cette période.
JISC: Final report on ebook observatory
Consortium portal offline wednesday 25th nov 7-8am
Portal software will be updated.
Mercredi prochain, le 25 novembre 2009 entre 7 et 8 heures nous mettrons à jour le logiciel du portail bnu qui sera inaccessible pendant cette période.
How many journals in BNU portal?
As the number of eJournal in the portal is constantly changing, we now have a link that dynamically updates that number: http://tinyurl.com/yhb9cs6
The number shown is deduplicated (no eJournal is counted twice) and contains subscribed as well as open access eJournals.
Merci Michel!
Talk: Springer on Trends in science publishing
The University of Luxembourg is hosting a presentation on science publishing by Christian Caron, Springer Science and Business Media, Heidelberg.
“The internet has changed the way information is created, circulated, assessed, searched, retrieved and used. Often the great achievements e.g. in terms of easier access to information in general are emphasized, yet often litte is known about the challenges this poses to content providers from the technical and business point of views. The present talk gives an overview of these changes, challenges and opportunities at the academic/professional level of scientific publishing and in particular from the publisher’s point of view. Also, some selected new types of products and technical advances will be briefly reviewed.”
Springer made some waves a year ago when they purchased a large Open-Access publisher, Bio Med Central. This acquisition followed Springer’s “Open Choice” program, an “author-pays” model that makes all articles available in open access for everyone else.
> Langue: Anglais
> Date: 18.06. 17h30-18h30
> Lieu: Campus Kirchberg, auditoire B02
> Info et inscription: http://jeudis.uni.lu
Mendeley beta for managing research papers
Although it’s just 4 montsh old, Mendeley manages already over a million research papers (in pdf format). Their goal is to support the social component of research. Check out this video from a recent presentation in Hamburg. (Make sure to skip the video to 10:00, when the Mendeley presentation starts)
It really is a great example of the disruptive and innovative power of social technology combined with open data for reshaping the pretty broken Impact factor system and, well, advancing science. Venture capital provided by founders of Skype and Last-fm.
(Also of interest is the open reference manager Zotero)
New content May 2009
There is now a simple way to find out about new content available from Consortium Luxembourg:
http://metalib.etat.lu/V?func=meta-1&Init_type=NewList
(you must login to access licensed content)