Mendeley acquired by Elsevier
Educational publisher Elsevier has bought Mendeley, the provider of a platform for academics and organizations to share research and collaborate with others via a social network. Many researchers are concerned about what the acquisition would mean for Mendeley's commitment to openness. For those who are skeptical about Elsevier and its intentions, we have a brief recommendation about other excellent reference-management tools:
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The future of scientific publishing - a Nature special issue
After nearly 400 years in the slow-moving world of print, the scientific publishing industry is suddenly being thrust into a fast-paced online world of cloud computing, crowd sourcing and ubiquitous sharing. In this special issue, Nature takes a close look at the forces now at work in scientific publishing, and how they may play out over the coming decades. The articles are freely available.
Corvinus Library has joined the EconBiz Partner Network
An agreement of cooperation was signed on March 21st, 2013 by Zsuzsanna Nagy (director of CUB Central Library) and Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann (director of ZBW German National Library of Economics), by which the library has joined the partner network of the EconBiz database, the search engine for economic information.
The "Science 2.0" mini-conference was held on the occasion of this agreement with the following presentations:
Prof. Dr. Klaus Tochtermann (ZBW):
Science 2.0 - How Social Media Is Shaping New Research and Publication Processes
Dr. Mária Bernschütz (Edutus College):
Usage of Online Focus Group
Dr. László Kóczy (Óbuda University / HAS Institute of Economics):
What Is Offered by Science 2.0 for an Academic? - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
GreenFILE: free database from EBSCO
GreenFILE is a free research database focusing on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Featuring hundreds of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect ecology. The total number of records is approximately 612,000, and full text is provided for more than 9,100 records from open access titles. The database is freely available.
DART-Europe: The Euroepan e-theses portal
DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European portal for the discovery of electronic theses and dissertations. The Ph.D. theses defended at the Corvinus University of Budapest can be found there, too, through the Corvinus Ph.D. dissertations archive. The database is freely available without restrictions.
Palgrave Dictionary of Economics online
The online edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics is a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists with its nearly 2,000 articles. The online edition incorporates the quarterly additions and updates with the new articles, too. The database is freely available from the university's LAN.
OECD Economic Policy Reforms 2013: Going for Growth
OECD's annual report Going for Growth builds on OECD expertise on structural policy reforms and economic performance to provide policymakers with a set of concrete recommendations on reform areas identified as priorities for sustained growth. This issue reviews the progress made on previous recommendations and identifies new priorities for the near term. The new issue Economic Policy Reforms 2013 Going for Growth is now free to download from the university's LAN. It is also available to read online without restrictions on the OECD website.
Corvinus Research in cooperation with OpenAIRE
The European Commission is conducting a pilot initiative on open access to research articles in its 7th Research Framework Programme (FP7), aiming to ensure that research results funded by the EU citizen are made available to the population at large for free. The OpenAIRE portal provides the online accessibility and searchability of the research results.
Through the Corvinus Research Archive, the publications of the Corvinus University are transmitted to the OpenAIRE portal. Two articles of the university's researchers can be found now on the site of the ASSPRO CEE 2007 project, too.
Free access to Springer publications
Springer is offering free online access to Springer eBooks published between 2005-2012 (grouped in 13 subject collections, e.g. Economics, Business & Management etc.), to the complete SpringerImages collection and to the Zentralblatt MATH bibliographic database. The publications are available from the university's LAN until 31 March 2013.
Free to Download: The Sustainable Business
EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) is pleased to announce the release of two important publications – a 200-page textbook, The Sustainable Business (2nd edition), and a 30-page accompanying workbook. E-versions of these publications are now available free from the EFMD website.