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Global scholarly information systems provide poor coverage for social science and humanities research taking place outside of the anglophone world and in languages other than English. Paul Donner, Stephan Stahschmidt, Serhii Nazarovets, Igor Cojocaru, Irina Cojocaru, Marina Razmadze and Shushanik Sargsyan highlight a range of national initiatives taking place aimed at improving scholarly data for local and national research and argue for the value of their greater integration.

The citations to open access preprint and working paper versions of papers that are also formally published in journals are not regularly counted in global multidisciplinary proprietary citation index databases, nor are they considered in most bibliometric studies. They are, however, integrated into paper citation counts in other citation databases. It can be argued that open access preprint citations reflect a relevant part of scientific impact of a work as proxied by citation counts, particularly in scientific disciplines that make extensive use of preprints/working papers for rapid open communication. Here we present a large-scale study of these usually uncounted open access preprint citations for the Web of Science database [...]

This short summarising article highlights some key findings of a study on the impact of digitalisation on the internationalisation policies and practices of German higher education institutions (HEIs). It examines the evolving landscape of virtual internationalisation (VI) within HEIs, drawing on findings from the INDISTRA project and the 6th Global Survey of the International University Association (IAU). Prompted by accelerated digitalisation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the study investigates strategies, drivers, priorities, and challenges associated with VI.

Records are often approached positivistically, read as evidence of the information they contain; this applies both in an everyday context and in a scientific approach to records as data material. This qualitative interview study contributes to the epistemological reflection of records. Against the background of the analytical approach to records as artefacts, these are understood in terms of how they came into being. Using the example of records of appointment procedures for professorships at German universities, the study examines the question of which functions the records fulfil and how they are produced based on seminarrative expert interviews.