Here’s an interesting one… Elsevier are drawing attention to their bibliometric research program – this is a way for researchers to bid (in the same way that we bid for research grants) for free access to particular parts of the Scopus / Sciverse / ScienceDirect databases for the purposes of research. It seems that this move would be excellent for bibliometric researchers and should lead to a better understanding of the quality and evenness of these data sources. The panel to evaluate proposals includes a pretty impressive list of experts – so, better get those thinking hats on! One question – do I have to publish the research in an Elsevier journal?
Find out more: http://ebrp.elsevier.com/index.asp