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Why and how to separate scholarly evaluation from academic journals.

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Today’s academic publishing system may be problematic, but many argue it is the only one available to provide adequate research evaluation. Pandelis Perakakis introduces an open community platform, LIBRE, which seeks to challenge the assumption that peer review can only be handled by journal editors. By embracing a new culture of open, transparent and independent research evaluation, the academic community can more productively contribute to global knowledge.

Open Scholar signs the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

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A new international, multidisciplinary initiative recognizing the need to improve the ways in which the output of scientific research is evaluated.

Open Scholar has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), joining another 260 (to date) international organisations, who support a series of recommendations towards funding agencies, institutions, publishers, organisations that supply metrics, and researchers, aiming to improve research assessment practices.

LIBRE partners with CLOCKSS Archive to ensure permanent accessibility to all uploaded articles and datasets

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The CLOCKSS Archive is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Open Scholar CIC to preserve the LIBRE Repository in CLOCKSS’s geographically and geopolitically distributed network of redundant archive nodes, located at 12 major research libraries around the world. This action provides for content to be freely available to everyone after a “trigger event” and ensures an author’s work will be maximally accessible and useful over time.

LIBRE alpha testing begins!

LIBRE enters its alpha testing development stage where a limited number of invited researchers will be trying available features to discover errors and provide valuable feedback for improvements before the official beta release.