| Organization | Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) |
| Type of organization | Library,Other research performing organization |
| Country | Germany |
| Types of benefits | support during the decision-making process of researchers for a suitable Open Access journal |
| Stakeholder groups that benefit | researchers in their role as authors, libraries that advise their researchers during the publication process, Open Access journals |
| Story | B!SON is an Open Access journal recommender using article metadata, journal metadata, and citation data from openly licensed data sources (DOAJ, OpenCitations). It is a simple, yet powerful tool that can be used by individual researchers or libraries and that recommends suitable journals for a given journal. Filtering options and detailed information for each journal, such as information on local funding conditions, help users make an informed decision prior to submission.
B!SON, provided by TIB, is open source, GDPR-compliant and publisher-independent. |
| Relevant links | https://service.tib.eu/bison/ |
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| License | CC BY 4.0 (attribution) |
| Date | 2026-09-08 |