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Open Access Week 2024
The International Open Access Week will take place from 21-27 October 2024. Under the motto ‘Community over Commercialisation’, online, hybrid and on-site events will be held in English, German or French. Around twenty universities and libraries in Switzerland have jointly designed the programme. The programme of events on the campus of the University of Bern will follow this summer.
BORIS Portal Upgrade
This summer, the repositories of the University of Bern will undergo a major, two-step change:
BORIS Portal will be upgrading to a new version on July 8, 2024; this should happen without a service outage. BORIS Portal will then appear in a new design.
In a second step, on September 2, 2024, the publications and functionalities of BORIS Publications will be migrated to BORIS Portal. After this migration, BORIS Portal will not only hold project information and research data, but also take over the role of central repository of all publications of the University of Bern.
Nature: Quota for free open access publishing reached
The annual article quota for Nature Research Journals under the read-and-publish agreement with SpringerNature is exhausted. Therefore, no APC costs can be covered under this agreement until the end of 2024.
New issue of Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS)
Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on Science and Skiing (ICSS).
New issue Informationswissenschaft
Travaux du/Arbeiten aus dem Master of Advanced Studies in Archival, Library and Information Science, 2020-2022.
A new journal on BOP Serials
Provinciae Romanae, the 22nd journal on BOP Serials, the areas of the Roman provinces from the 3rd century B.C. to the 7th century A.D. Major subject areas include archaeology, history, epigraphy, papyrology, material culture, and other disciplines related to the Roman provinces.
Language Policy in Africa
Language Policy in Africa (LPIA) is a new journal on BOP Serials. It is dedicated to African languages, which are key to Africa's development - also in the context of decolonization.
Fraseografia e metafraseografia delle varietà diatopiche.
New issuie of Linguistik online: Studi in onore di Fiorenzo Toso
New walk-in consultation for all researchers
We are offering a new “Walk-in” consultation for all researchers from the University of Bern and the Insel University Hospital every Monday from 2 pm to 4 pm during spring semester. Whether you look for a convenient way to organize data in your project folder, whether you need help developing a data management plan (DMP) for your project or whether you don’t know how to publish your data – just drop in at our office in Hochschulstrasse 6, room 354 and we’ll do what we can to help you!
oa.finder - find funding options for your OA publication
Do you have to pay for your open access publication? In oa.finder you can search specifically for funding opportunities for your open access publication.
B!SON - find the right journal
Are you looking for the right journal for your open access publication? The new search tool B!son supports you in finding the right place for your publication.