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By Liselotte Brandstrup & Lotte Risbæk Thomsen

As you are probably aware, you can access content from The Economist both on campus and from home via VPN.

But you can also read articles and listen to podcasts on your phone. Stay on top, get new articles directly on your phone by downloading The Economist app.

How can I download the app?

• Scan the QR code below and install the app on your phone.
  
  
   
• Click Log in in the top-right corner
• Select the SSO – button, provide your CBS e-mail address, and search for CBS or Copenhagen Business School.
• Follow the usual CBS log-in procedure.

You can sign up for various newsletters or proceed to content directly by clicking “Continue” upon logging in. You have full access to all content via the navigation menu at the bottom of your screen. Explore the latest edition and browse past editions in the “Weekly” section. You can also find and listen to podcasts on the go. 
 

Manage your time and listen hands-free

We do not always have the time to read everything we want to. The Economist app helps you plan, because it shows you how long it takes to read each article. Another perk is that you can listen to articles while doing other things.

If you have any questions about the app, please reach out to Lotte Risbæk Thomsen.

Right now, I want to go to The Economist

by Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

You are about to publish your next journal article, and you want to know if the journal is part of a national Open Access agreement which means you can publish as Open Access without paying the usual fee. But where do you find this information? Introducing Journal Finder. Journal Finder is a new database of all journals included in the national Open Access agreements.

As you may know, CBS is part of the national licensing consortium that has negotiated a number of so-called ‘Transformative Open Access Agreements’. These agreements mean that researchers affiliated with a Danish university can publish their article as Open Access without having to pay the usual Open Access fee.

To help determine whether a specific journal is part of the agreements, the Journal Finder database has just been released. In the database, you can look up journals covered by the agreements and find information about the agreement for each journal.

When using the database, you can use filters to qualify your search. As a CBS researcher you can filter by 'Copenhagen Business School' to find out with which journals CBS has agreements.

If you are unsure about what applies to individual journals, you are of course still welcome to contact the CBS Library. Write to oa@cbs.dk if you have questions about Open Access and the licensing agreements.

More about Journal Finder:

Journal Finder is developed by the Danish company ChronosHub. Journal Finder uses data from Open policy finder, OpenAlex, and DOAJ, as well as the publishers with whom agreements have been made. Data in Journal Finder is continuously updated and maintained. The information found in the Journal Finder must be considered indicative, and reservations are made for errors and changes. (https://pro.kb.dk/en/open-science/journal-finder)

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Written by Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen and Lars Nondal

CBS Library regularly receives requests for access to journals that we do not currently subscribe to.  We greatly appreciate these requests, and we encourage our faculty to keep making them. However, developments in the pricing policies of some publishers have convinced us to write this piece, because at what point do journals become too expensive?

A lot of journals are currently transitioning to full Open Access, something that does not happen overnight but only gradually, over time. During this interim period, the journals are known as ‘transformative’ journals, which basically means they are on their way to becoming full-blown Open Access.

In the transformative period, some journal articles are Open Access whilst others are locked away behind publisher paywalls. This means that research libraries still need to purchase a license before researchers and students can access the locked content.

Now, one would be inclined to think that the price of the license would follow and match the proportion of locked articles, that when an increasing number of new articles are made available as Open Access, the subscription price for the journal would drop accordingly.

That is not the case, however.

An example:

The Nature family comprises two journals, Nature Energy and Nature Human Behavior, that are in high demand at CBS for both research and teaching purposes.

Each of these journals costs between 75,000-80,000 DKK annually for an organization like CBS – even though roughly half of recent articles are freely available as Open Access.

It is clear, that publishers defy common sense and reasonable pricing by freezing prices of transformative journals – in which half of the new articles are freely available as mentioned. The question is, do we accept this situation? CBS Library tries to procure access to relevant articles on a case-by-case basis and through other means than a subscription. But this process is also time-consuming and costly.

Find out more about transformative journals.

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Written by Liselotte Brandstrup

Get new perspectives on current events, both local and global with the online edition of Ugebrevet Mandag Morgen, including newsletter articles and analyses as well as think tank content.

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As a researcher, this makes it a great vehicle for new insights and new perspectives on the transformation of society and the challenges that come with it, e.g. structural challenges, responsible leadership in a time of change, climate change, and new technological opportunities with AI.

As part of the license, you have access to reports and other publications from Tænketanken (think tank), a Mandag Morgen subsidiary. Tænketanken tries to influence the social agenda by contributing politically independent insights and solutions.

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Written By Dicte Madsen

The Academic Journal Guide (AJG) is published every three years, and a fully updated 2021 edition of the guide is now available. The purpose of the AJG is to assist business and management researchers make informed decisions about the (journal) outlets they may wish to publish in.

The AJG is based on a combination of journal metrics, citation indicators, and expert reviews. The full methodology is available right here. From CBS, Adam Lindgreen is a member of the Scientific Committee for Marketing.

What is new in AJG 2021?
You will find a total of 1703 journals in the 2021 edition of the AJG. 163 new journals have found their way to the guide. 57 journals from the AJG 2018 guide have changed levels. Of these, 48 have been promoted to a higher level.

Number of journals in the AJG 

How to access the guide? 
In order to get access to the full guide you need to register with the Chartered Association of Business Schools. The full guide includes subject fields, journal profile links to Scopus and Web of Science, journal metrics, and former AJG levels. The guide is available via the Chartered Association of Business Schools website. A spreadsheet version with AJG 2021 journal titles, subject fields, and AJG levels is also available from CBSshare 
In addition to being a guide for researchers, the AJG is used as a performance measure at CBS. The new AJG 2021 will form the basis of future AJG article counts.

Reference:
Academic Journal Guide 2021 available now

 If you have any questions, please contact the CBS Library bibliometrics team at metrics.lib@cbs.dk

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Written by Lene Hald

You may be familiar with ‘JIF’, the Journal Impact Factor used in Web of Science and created by Clarivate. This metric is often used to compare the quality of journals and is based on the average number of citations received by articles in a journal in a 2-year window (find out more about JIF right here).

JIF is not field-normalized, which means that different citation patterns in different scientific fields are not taken into account. This makes it less than optimal if you want to compare JIFs across scientific disciplines. Enter Journal Citation Indicator, the latest toolbox addition from Clarivate.

Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is a field-normalized metric that can help you measure the citation impact of journals across disciplines and as such supplements JIF. The metric is based on the average number of citations that articles from a journal receive in a 3-year window, which are in turn field-normalized (check out Clarivate´s discussion paper “Introducing the Journal Citation Indicator” to find out more about the computation of JCI).

Careful judgement required
In the blog post Journal Citation Indicator. Just Another Tool in Clarivate’s Metrics Toolbox? on The Scholarly Kitchen, JCI is criticized for the way it aims to achieve field-normalization, because it risks distorting the impression of how multi-field journals perform in the process.

 As is the case with all bibliometric indicators, you should use JCI with caution, and as Clarivate puts it themselves: “The normalization steps make it more reasonable to compare journals across disciplines, but careful judgement is still required” (Introducing the Journal Citation Indicator, p. 5).
 

Find a journal JCI
To find the JCI for a journal, simply access the Journal Citation Reports and enter the journal name.

If you have any questions about the Journal Citation Indicator or about bibliometric in general, please contact the CBS Library bibliometric team at: metrics.lib@cbs.dk

Written by Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

On 1 January, an agreement between Elsevier and Danish research organizations came into force, according to which CBS researchers will be able to publish open access without charge.

Certain conditions need to be met however. First of all, the journal needs to be covered by the agreement, and secondly, the manuscript must be submitted after 1 January 2021.

Finally, as corresponding author it is crucial that you use your CBS e-mail in the process. If you fail to use your CBS e-mail, your affiliation with an organization that is in fact covered by the agreement cannot be verified.

Watch the Elsevier video “Gold Open Access: Central Funding Agreement”.
 

Check out the CBS Library guide to Open Access to find out more.

The agreement came into force on 1 January 2021 and will run until 31 December 2024.
 

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to mailto:oa@cbs.dk

By Claus Rosenkrantz Hansen

CBS, along with all other Danish universities, will continue to enjoy access to the many journals and databases provided by Elsevier in the coming four years. This is the outcome of recent negotiations with the publisher.
 

A delegation chaired by the Royal Library and representing all Danish universities were facing a potential breakdown in negotiations when they sat down at the negotiating table with Elsevier, the publisher.  

Failure would have spelled the end of access to the Elsevier portfolio of journals and databases for CBS as well as for all other researchers at Danish universities – just like it happened in Germany.  

However, contrary to expectations, negotiations were crowned with success in a recently published agreement that in the next four years guarantees reading access to the Elsevier portfolio of journals and databases. 
 

CBS is happy about the result of the negotiations:

”The new agreement is good for CBS, as we escape a situation where CBS researchers are prevented from using Elsevier resources. It is also positive, that the annual costs will freeze at 2020 level, which in effect will mean a reduction because of inflation”, explains René Steffensen, director of CBS Library.
 

Publish Open Access in Elsevier journals without charge

A not insignificant aspect of the agreement is its focus on boosting Open Access publishing in the Danish research community. In future, CBS researchers will be able to publish Open Access in Elsevier journals without charge. Up till this point, it has not been uncommon to see surcharges of up to $3.000 for an author to publish Open Access in a licensed journal.
 

A condition for publishing Open Access cost-free is that the CBS researcher is listed as the corresponding author – and that the article has been submitted to the journal after January 1 2021.
 

In the coming months, CBS Library will be releasing more information about the procedure for Open Access publishing in Elsevier journals, but you can already find a guide as well as relevant journal lists on the Royal Library website (the lists will be updated in the coming months).

Read the press release from Universities Denmark (in Danish only)

Link to contract
Link to Elsevier’s text on the agreement

For more information, please contact Birgit Brejnebøl or René Steffensen.

Written by Lotte Risbæk Thomsen

If you have been looking in vain for a journal, please tell us.  Twice per year (in spring and in fall), we go through all journal requests to assess whether to procure the titles or not.  

To help us make informed decisions, we would appreciate a little background information, including why you feel that the journal is important to CBS and to your work and whether you think that the journal would be relevant to others as well.

It probably goes without saying, that decisions to procure individual titles are based on costs but we also look at availability (digital or print), field, language, and academic level.

Many newsletters and online news platforms are only available with a personal account or for a limited number of identifiable users. These types of resources are not really suited for libraries and in most cases, we will not be prepared to pay for access.

We are happy to receive any suggestions you may have as they help us ensure that our catalogue of journals stays updated and relevant to both CBS faculty and students.

Please send your suggestions to Lotte Risbæk Thomsen.

Written by Mette Bechmann

On the train, in the airport, between one lecture and the next, on a coffee break – those little pockets of time where you move from one task to another – this is where you can now get a quick overview of what is being published in your favorite journals via the library software, Browzine.  

Should you have more time to spare, you can access the full text of the papers through the app as well. 

To get started, build your own collection of the journals you would like to follow and place them in the “My bookshelf” section of the app. When you browse through the titles of the content pages on your phone, you can mark and download papers for further investigation by adding them to the “my articles” section. 

Find the journals by searching by keyword or browse by subject.  

BrowZine is widely used in university libraries as part of their journal subscriptions. Therefore, if you are affiliated with other university libraries you can download papers from them as well with no hassle.  

The process is simple; download the BrowZine app to your phone or other devices, log in with CBS username and password and set up a user profile in BrowZine.  

If you don’t like reading full papers on your tablet BrowZine can be accessed through any browser as well. 

I want to download the BrowZine app right away – remember to click “choose Library” and choose Copenhagen Business School when you download the app.
Show me  BrowZine’ s own video guide