The International Publishers Association has issued an important manifesto on the Freedom to Publish. At a time when academic freedom is under attack even within Europe, reiterating the right to publish is vital. No publication, no evaluation.
https://www.internationalpublishers.org/freedom-to-publish/ipa-freedom-to-publish-manifesto
Research Evaluation (OUP) has just published the paper “Scholarly book publishing: its information sources for evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities” by Elea Giménez-Toledo, Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez & Gunnar Sivertsen:
Members of WG3 have recently published a freely downloadable paper on databases in Flanders:
Verleysen, F.T. & Rousseau R. (2017). How the existence of a regional bibliographic information system can help evaluators to conform to the principles of the Leiden Manifesto. Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences, 54(1), http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/detail.php?articleId=54154&lang=en
Mimi Urbanc, ENRESSH STMS manager, has announced the second call for STMS. There are five STSMs foreseen this time. Dead line for applying is the end of April.
Link to the call text: https://enressh.eu/stsm/
A paper co-authored by ENRESSH Vice-Chair Jack Spaapen has been published in Research Professional to coincide with the recent Leru report on social impact. ‘Impact agenda gains elite support’ can be read here: http://www.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1367044
The Leru report is available on their website at: http://www.leru.org/files/general/LERU_Position_Paper_Societal_Impact.pdf
In March 2017, Leru published a new report on Social Impact of research
http://www.leru.org/files/general/LERU_Position_Paper_Societal_Impact.pdf
Paul Benneworth, ENRESSH WG2 presented work from the ENRESSH STSM undertaken by Reetta Muhonen, co-supervised by Julia Olmos Peñuela and Paul Benneworth, and which was presented to the recent Sofia WG meeting
See here for full programme: http://www.sv.u
Other ENRESSH speakers included Leonie van Drooge on “Assessing the impact of the social sciences and humanities: the Dutch approach” and Jordi Molas-Gallaert speaking about “Assessing the impact of the social sciences and humanities: the SIAMPI approach”.
Languages are part of the wealth of Europe. The ENRESSH press release is now available in 22 of our European languages.
Mrs. Zlatiana Karova- national COST coordinator and director Directorat Research- Ministry of Education and Science made a welcome speech at the MC and WG meeting that was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on the 7th and 8th March 2017. Speech_ENRESSH_CNC_Bulgaria
