At TIB, we use the open source research information system VIVO for research profiles. We have extended it with the feature to add Mastodon IDs and thus verify their Mastodon profiles.
Starting from March 2022, TIB’s Open Science Lab has been hosting three scholars from Ukraine, whose research were disturbed by the war. In the first week of July, an introductory webinar, dedicated to Research and Academic libraries of Ukraine was conducted. Accordingly, this blog post is meant to serve as a brief report of the webinar.
The tool developed in the TAPIR project enables a retrieval of PID-referenced data from selected external data sources and an automated import into the research information system VIVO
As part of the previous TIB blog article on the power of persistent identifiers (PIDs), the TAPIR project has already introduced itself and shared first project steps with the interested public. But there is more we would like to share with you!
DOIs are commonly used to persistently identify different entities of the Science system like articles. Until now conferences were not one of those entities. We minted the probably first DOI for a conference with DataCite.
Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Academic Graph will be discontinued at the end of 2021. What does this mean? Why is this important for researchers and research institutions? The Microsoft Academic Graph is the database behind Microsoft Academic, one of the most comprehensive academic search engines. However, Microsoft does not only use…
Within the project ROSI (Reference Implementation for Open Scientometric Indicators) ImpactViz was developed as a tool to collect and visualize information on the impact of a publication. A plugin for Open Journal Systems (OJS) allows an easy handling of this tool.
The Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA) has been launched. It appeals to scientific publishers to make the abstracts of the works they publish freely available. The TIB is supporting this call.
