B!SON is an acronym for 'Bibliometric and Semantic Open Access Recommender Network'. B!SON is being developed within a 2-year project of the same name, conducted jointly by TIB and SLUB Dresden. The aim of the project is to implement a recommender system for quality-assured open access journals. From the large amount of open access journals available, this system will create a list of suitable journals sorted according to thematic relevance. For this purpose, in addition to common bibliometric methods of determining similarity, machine learning methods are used, which can determine relevant publication venues based on the semantic similarity of the title or abstract of the article to be published. The partners cooperate with OpenCitations and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) and strive for a close exchange with institutions that advise authors. Several scientific institutions support the project. While open access publishing requirements are steadily increasing and there is a growing number of open access journals, authors often lack knowledge of relevant, quality-assured open access journals that would be suitable for publishing their own research. A freely accessible tool that can be linked to local support structures will help to make the transition to open access successful. For further information, please visit B!SON's project website.
B!SON can be customised with institution-specific information and thus supplement information services on publishing and open access for researchers. In such an institution-specific B!SON version, information on local funding conditions can be displayed for the journals identified by the recommendation algorithm. More information can be found here.
All contents on this website are licensed under Creative Commons BY 4.0 International. The DOAJ journal data licensed under CC-BY-SA and OpenCitations data as well as DOAJ article data are released under CC-0 (public domain). The Plan S compliance data is from Journal Checker Tool and released under Creative Commons BY 4.0 International. The B!SON source code is licensed under an AGPL license.
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