New b-on cycle 2025-2027
On January 1st 2025 a new b-on cycle has begun. The negotiation with the several content providers is concluded and the following highlights emerge:
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New b-on cycle 2025-2027
On January 1st 2025 a new b-on cycle has begun. The negotiation with the several content providers is concluded and the following highlights emerge:
Ler mais News20 years of b-on!
b-on, the Online Knowledge Library, a digital service of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), developed through FCCN, celebrated its 20th anniversary with a meeting for its community on November 20, at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. “20 years of b-on” is the name of the event that aims to commemorate two decades of existence, […]
Ler mais NewsWebinar (PT) – Open Science in Expansion: New Models, Evaluation and Open Data – video available
With the aim of raising awareness and promoting Open Science practices among the community of researchers, science managers, students and the general public, FCCN, the digital services of the Foundation for Science and Technology, promoted an online event on October 25 at 10:00 am. The webinar “Open Science in Expansion: New Models, Evaluation and Open Data” was part of […]
Ler mais NewsSCOAP3 Extended for an additional 3 years
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3), has announced the extension of the initiative for 3 years, for a new and innovative phase, beginning in 2025. Since 2014, the SCOAP3 initiative has funded almost 70,000 OA articles across 11 leading journals in particle physics. The partnership is funded by the collective contributions of over 3,000 […]
Ler mais NewsOnline events (PT) – b-on 2023 training sessions: videos available
b-on is organizing two online training events for our users: Webinar b-on 2023 – Session I: Access to content – for users of b-on services, focusing on content searches – November 23rd. Webinar b-on 2023 – Session II: Open Access publication and authors’ rights retention – for article authors – November 28th.
Ler mais NewsOnline event (PT) – Ciência Aberta: Comunidade, Acesso e Colaboração – video available
As a part of celebrating the Open Access international week, FCCN, the FCT unit responsible for ensuring the technology and means for research, for science, and the development of knowledge, organized the online event “Ciência Aberta: Comunidade, Acesso e Colaboração”. This webinar focused mainly on activities developed by FCT in the domain of Open Science, namely the transformative […]
Ler mais NewsEvent (PT) – Ciência Aberta: Acesso, colaboração e partilha – video available
In the context of the international open science week, the FCT has hosted an event – Ciência Aberta: Acesso, colaboração e partilha – to promote open science practices and foster awareness in the community of researchers, science managers, students, and general public. Open science is carried out openly, with transparence, and in cooperation, enabling the […]
Ler mais NewsOpen Access publishing: first b-on transformative agreements in place
It is now possible to publish articles in open access under the b-on agreements for the triennium 2022-2024. Advantageous OA publishing conditions were negotiated with twelve b-on publishers. The details of the available agreements can been consulted here. Soon more will follow. We estimate that by 2024 circa 63% of the articles published in OA by […]
Ler mais News25 year of FCT in science: Open science, repositories and online library
A new session from the 25th FCT anniversary celebratory conferences cycle took place last July 26th in the University of Minho, in Braga. This session was dedicated to Open Science, and focused on initiatives such as EOSC, Plan S and the European Commission’s policy and infrastructure for open science. The session was recorded, the video […]
Ler mais NewsSCOAP3 reaches 50’000 articles milestone
The Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) has reached milestone of over 50’000 research articles published in open access. SCOAP3 is a partnership of over 3,000 libraries, funding agencies, and research organizations from 44 countries and 3 intergovernmental organizations, hosted at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Read more here: SCOAP3 – […]