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Usage analysis shows where researchers are reading the most


Mendeley’s new Global Research Report provides rankings on which countries, world regions, and universities are reading the most academic papers and spending the most time per day studying the literature (only countries with at least 1,000 Mendeley


Goal is open access


The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, MTA) has issued an open-access mandate for its researchers and employees. According to the Hungarian


policy, open access is possible by self-archiving in institutional repositories or publishing in open-access journals or in hybrid journals. The mandate is obligatory for scientific publications to be published after 1 January 2013.


News in Brief


Springer acquires Papers Springer will acquire Mekentosj BV and Lifve Ltd., which includes the reference manager software tool Papers. Papers enables researchers to organise, use, share and cite their research literature. The current Papers employees, including the founder, Alexander Griekspoor, will continue to run Papers as a unit within Springer.


IOP launches physics e-book programme IOP Publishing has re-entered the book market with a new e-book programme. The new IOP e-book programme, which was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair, aims to provide an additional content channel for authors looking to publish with a society publisher. The new portfolio will cover topics


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across the physical sciences and hopes to support the needs of physicists as well as researchers from other disciplines who are working in interdisciplinary areas of research. IOP has also announced a strategic partnership with Morgan and Claypool Publishers (M&C) to build a dedicated collection as part of the overall e-book programme.


Ireland sets open-access mandate for research Peer-reviewed journal articles and other research outputs resulting in whole or in part from publicly- funded research in Ireland should be deposited in an open-access repository. They should also be made publicly discoverable, accessible and re-usable as soon as possible and on


an on-going basis, according to a new, national policy in the country.


Access Innovations helps SPIE with new taxonomy SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, has partnered with semantic enrichment firm Access Innovations on a new taxonomy in optics and photonics. The new optics and photonics thesaurus includes 3,830 preferred terms that are said to cover the full breadth and depth of the technologies covered by SPIE in its publications, conferences, and educational programmes.


Birkhäuser and DETAIL expand partnership to architecture e-books The architecture and design publishing


house Birkhäuser and the architecture publisher DETAIL have agreed to extend and expand their existing partnership. The agreement means that Birkhäuser will immediately make some 100 DETAIL books globally available in digital format through De Gruyter Online. In addition, DETAIL will continue to offer its print editions through Birkhäuser outside the German-language market.


ORCID launches Registry to help distinguish between researchers The ORCID initiative has launched a Registry where researchers can distinguish themselves by creating a personal identifier. The project includes universities, publishers, funders and technology companies.


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The top three world regions by size of their academics’ research paper collections are: Western Europe, North America and then East Asia. However, when it came to specific countries, the table was topped by Argentina, followed


by France and then Germany. The longest average times spent reading articles were in Western Europe, followed by Oceania and then East Asia. The longest reading time by country was in the Netherlands, followed by South Africa and then the UK.


OA gains ground with authors, says study


Over 30 per cent of Wiley authors have published at least one open-access paper, and 79 per cent see open access as more prevalent in their discipline than it was three years ago. These are some of the findings


of Wiley’s survey of more than 10,000 authors into open access. The research explored the factors that authors assess when deciding where to publish, and whether to publish open access. Among the top factors considered by authors were the relevance and scope of the


journal, the journal’s impact factor and the international reach of the journal.


Reasons that authors gave for not yet having published under an open-access model included a lack of high profile open- access journals (48 per cent), lack of funding (44 per cent) and concerns about quality (34 per cent). Authors said they would publish in an open-access journal if it had a high impact factor, if it were well regarded and if it had a rigorous peer- review process.


SCOAP3 initiative launches at CERN


Representatives from the science funding agencies and library communities of 29 countries have met at CERN to launch the SCOAP3 initiative, which aims to provide open access to all particle-physics papers. The objective of SCOAP3 is to grant unrestricted access to scientific articles appearing in scientific journals in the field of particle physics. In the SCOAP3 model, libraries and funding agencies pool resources used to subscribe to journal content and support the peer-review system directly instead. Journal publishers then make their articles open access. Publishers of 12 journals, have been identified for participation and SCOAP3 expects to be operational for articles published as of 2014.


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