B!SON journal recommender

• Web interface
• API
• Source code of the B!SON recommendation system
• TYPO3 extension with configuration functionalities (prototype developed by and for SLUB Dresden)
  • Please contact us if you would like advice on installing the extension or templates of the CSV files needed to enrich the B!SON results according to local funding conditions!
• Widget for a simple preview on external websites

Publications

• Entrup, E., Ewerth, R. & Hoppe, A. (2024). Can Editorial Decisions Impair Journal Recommendations? Analysing the Impact of Journal Characteristics on Recommendation Systems. In: Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1062–1066. https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688194
• Entrup, E., Ewerth, R. & Hoppe, A. (2023). A Comparison of Automated Journal Recommender Systems. In: Alonso, O., Cousijn, H., Silvello, G., Marrero, M., Teixeira Lopes, C., Marchesin, S. (Eds.), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 14241. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-43849-3_20
• Entrup, E., Eppelin, A., Ewerth, R., Hartwig, J., Tullney, M., Wohlgemuth, M. & Hoppe, A. (2023). Comparing different search methods for the open access journal recommendation tool B!SON. International Journal on Digital Libraries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00372-3
• Entrup, E., Eppelin, A. Ewerth, R., Hartwig, J., Tullney, M., Wohlgemuth, M. & Hoppe, A. (2022). B!SON: A Tool for Open Access Journal Recommendation. In G. Silvello, O. Corcho, P. Manghi, G. M. Di Nunzio, K. Golub, N. Ferro, & A. Poggi (Eds.), Linking Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (Vol. 13541, pp. 357–364). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16802-4_33 

Conference contributions

• Eppelin, A., Schmeja, S., Entrup, E., & Wohlgemuth, M. (2023). B!SON im Praxiseinsatz: Wie der Journal Recommender in lokale Open-Access-Angebote integriert werden kann. Open Access Tage 2023, Berlin. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8374994
• Wohlgemuth, M., Eppelin, A., Entrup, E. & Hoppe, A. (2023). Die B!SON-Herde wächst: Von der lokalen Einbindung zum neuen Service. Bibliocon 2023, Hannover. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8060537
• Eppelin, A., Entrup, E., Hartwig, J. & Hoppe, A. (2021, November 16-18). B!SON – a tool to make journal selection easier. The 16th Munin Conference of Scholarly Publishing 2021, online. Sepentrio Conference Series, 4. https://doi.org/10.7557/5.6190
• Hartwig, J., Entrup, E., Eppelin, A., Ewerth, R., Hakimov, S., Hoppe, A., Tullney, M. & Wohlgemuth, M. (2021, September 28). B!SON – Empfehlungsservice für qualitätsgesicherte Open-Access-Zeitschriften. Open-Access-Tage 2021 (OAT21), online. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5534182

Further publications

• Eppelin, A. (2023). B!SON - an open tool to help researchers find suitable Open Access journals for their work (poster). OASPA Online Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing 2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8322129
• Technische Informationsbibliothek (2023). B!SON - Your Open Access journal recommender [Video]. TIB AV-Portal, https://doi.org/10.5446/62604 (German version: https://doi.org/10.5446/62603)
• Eppelin, A., Entrup, E. & Tullney, M. (2023). B!SON – A Recommendation System for Open Access Journals: Sustainability, Long-Term Operation and Further Development. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8089532 (German version: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8033936 )
• Eppelin, A. & Entrup, E. (2022). B!SON - algorithmenbasiertes Empfehlungssystem für Open-Access-Zeitschriften (in German). Universitätsbibliothek Bielefeld, Kolloquium Wissensinfrastruktur, https://doi.org/10.11576/kwi-1119  
• Eppelin, A. & Wohlgemuth, M. (2022). B!SON goes local (in German). TIB Blog. https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/09/30/bison-goes-local/ / SLUB Blog. https://blog.slub-dresden.de/beitrag/2022/09/29/bson-goes-local
• Schmeja, S., van Edig, X., Eppelin, A. & Schulz, K. (2022). Datentracking - nicht bei uns (in German). TIB Blog. https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/02/17/datentracking-nicht-bei-uns/
• Eppelin, A., Entrup, E., Hoppe, A. & Hartwig, J. (2021). Finding the right open access journal with B!SON. TIB Blog. https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2021/11/16/finding-the-right-open-access-journal-with-bson/ (slightly changed German version: https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2021/10/29/das-passende-open-access-journal-mit-bson-finden/)

Materials

• B!SON Community on zenodo with presentations, fact sheets, data sets and other publications