B!SON

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#OpenAccess journal recommender by @tibhannover & https://openbiblio.social/@SLUBDresden@wisskomm.social, funding: @bmbf_bund

Imprint: http://tib.eu/7wg6

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toots usually by @aeppelin

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B!SON4d ago
Show threadelias4d ago
@Lambo @fpo @TIBopenpub @tibhannover B!SON itself is on Mastodon as well!
@oa_bison
B!SON4d ago
Frodo Podschwadek5d ago

In case you've just written a paper and are still uncertain where to publish it (but you want to publish it Open Access, of course!), the TIB Hanover has the right tool for you: their Bibliometric and Semantic Open Access Recommender Network (BISON). It finds suitable Open Access journals based on the title, abstract, and references of your paper and, perhaps most important, is GDPR-compliant and does not store any of your data.

https://service.tib.eu/bison/

B!SON - the Open-Access journal recommender

B!SON is an independent, open service that lets you find Open-Access journals for your publication based on title, abstract and references.

B!SON5d ago
open-access.networkMar 13

Neuer Selbstlernkurs für Forschende und Bibliotheksmitarbeitende: #PredatoryJournals erkennen und vermeiden

Der Online-Kurs von @tibhannover zeigt,
🔎 wie sich unseriöse Journals erkennen lassen
🧰 welche Prüftools & Checklisten helfen
⚠️ welche Risiken Predatory Publishing birgt – und was man tun kann, wenn man dort publiziert hat.

Zum Kurs: https://service.tib.eu/toern/course/view.php?id=64

Save the Date:
📅 Offene Online-Sprechstunde: 4. Mai, 14–15 Uhr

#OpenAccess #PredatoryPublishing #WissKomm #OpenScience #Bibliothek

B!SONNov 21
open-access.networkNov 20

📢 Ein freundlicher Reminder: Am Montag, 24.11., um 11 Uhr findet das kostenfreie Webinar "Open Access in den Materialwissenschaften und der Werkstofftechnik" satt.

Mit dem FID Materials Science (@slubdresden und @tibhannover) informieren wir unter zu OA, Zweitveröffentlichung und Lizenzierung mit besonderem Fokus auf die Materialwissenschaften und Werkstofftechnik.

🔗 Weitere Infos: https://open-access.network/fortbilden/workshops/oa-materialwissenschaften-werkstofftechnik

#OpenAccess #Material #Materialwissenschaft #Werkstofftechnik #OpenScience #WissKomm

B!SONNov 21
open-access.networkNov 17

📢 Webinar: Open Access in den Materialwissenschaften & der Werkstofftechnik
🗓 24.11.2025 | 11:00–12:00 Uhr

Mit dem FID Materials Science (@slubdresden/ @tibhannover) zeigen wir #OpenAccess-Publikationsstrategien in einem hochgradig interdisziplinären Forschungsfeld an.
Besonders interessant für Forschende in den Materialwissenschaften und der Werkstofftechnik.

Link zur Teilnahme: https://tib-eu.webex.com/tib-eu/j.php?MTID=m74d9070d977164c83e3cedffd1961ff7

#Materialwissenschaft #Werkstofftechnik #openscience

B!SONOct 7
Marco TullneyOct 7

#DiamondOpenAccess journals often struggle with getting enough financial support. Joint funding from academic libraries offers a possible way forward for funding from regular library funds. Librarians need help finding these offers and need information to decide about possible support. At #craft_oa2025, @aeppelin presents the #DiamondFundingNavigator by @tibhannover that makes these offers visible and offers more information.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15488382

#OpenAccess

Diamond Funding Navigator – comprehensive overview of financing consortia for Diamond Open Access publications

Many initiatives for collective financing of Diamond Open Access publications struggle to gain sufficient attention by potential supporters. The new service “Diamond Funding Navigator”, developed and provided by Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), helps by providing a comprehensive overview of those initiatives: increased visibility of the offers, as well as embedded possibilities for analysis, can lead to increased participation in these consortia and thus ultimately facilitate the achievement of their funding objectives. In the poster, we present the concept of the Diamond Funding Navigator and highlight some benefits: Since many potential supporting institutions find it difficult to evaluate the extent to which their researchers are involved in the publications to be funded, we have implemented the possibility to retrieve their publication data from OpenAlex for these specific publications. On our poster, we will also provide insights into the technical basis on which the tool was developed. Conference participants are invited to get involved by exploring the Diamond Funding Navigator, giving feedback and (if in the position to do so) providing information about new consortia for Diamond Open Access publications.

Zenodo
Show threadB!SONSep 18, 2025

Als offene Infrastruktur könnt Ihr B!SON in euren Institutionen einsetzen, um eure Nutzenden bei der Auswahl fachlich passender #OpenAccess -Zeitschriften zu beraten. Das funktioniert sogar noch besser mit einer B!SON-Version, die spezifisch für die Einrichtung angepasst ist, mit Informationen zu den Finanzierungskonditionen vor Ort! 🤓

Alle Infos: https://www.tib.eu/de/services/bison

#oat #openinfrastructure

B!SON für Ihre Einrichtung

Die TIB unterstützt interessierte Einrichtungen dabei, den Empfehlungsservice für qualitätsgesicherte Open-Access-Zeitschriften B!SON an ihre Erfordernisse anzupassen.

B!SONSep 18, 2025

@tullney erwähnt in seiner Keynote B!SON als Beispiel für Agilität in der Entwicklung von offener Infrastruktur. Passend dazu:
Wir haben vor kurzem den B!SON-Empfehlungsalgorithmus deutlich verbessert - basierend auf Analysen, die in einem Konferenzpaper publiziert wurden: https://doi.org/10.1145/3640457.3688194

Mehr zum Update: https://fediscience.org/@elias/115009758908257229

#oat25 #openinfrastructure

Can Editorial Decisions Impair Journal Recommendations? Analysing the Impact of Journal Characteristics on Recommendation Systems | Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

ACM Conferences
B!SONAug 20, 2025
Barcelona DeclarationAug 20, 2025

🇨🇭 Switzerland strengthens its commitment to the Barcelona Declaration

We’re glad to welcome the @uzh as a new signatory, joining CERN and the Swiss Reproducibility Network. Together, they highlight Switzerland’s growing commitment to making research information open and transparent.

Join us ⋅ Rejoignez-nous ⋅ Unisciti a noi ⋅ Schließen Sie sich uns an ⋅ As da vegnir cun nus 🤝

Get involved: https://barcelona-declaration.org/

#OpenResearchInformation #OpenScience #BarcelonaDeclaration

B!SONAug 11, 2025
eliasAug 11, 2025

We've improved @oa_bison - the open-access journal recommender! Based on last year's research, we've updated our recommendation method:
- Switched from a custom BiLSTM to Qwen3-Embeddings
- Changed the Elasticsearch scoring
=> the recommendations should be more accurate and less biased by journal size

Under the hood, we've also updated Debian, PostgreSQL and Python dependencies.

Try the new version here: https://service.tib.eu/bison

B!SON - the Open-Access journal recommender

B!SON is an independent, open service that lets you find Open-Access journals for your publication based on title, abstract and references.