Online-consultation “scientific publication system”: documentation and main results
« This short report provides a description of an online-consultation on the scientific publication system. German-speaking scientists from all disciplines were ...
Mois : mars 2015
The Tao of Open Science for Ecology
« The field of ecology is poised to take advantage of emerging technologies that facilitate the gathering, analyzing, and sharing of data, methods, and results....
OpenDOAR Repositories and Metadata Practices
« In spring 2014, authors from the University of Missouri conducted a nation-wide survey on metadata practices among United States-based OpenDOAR repositories. ...
The Past, Present, and Future of Demand Driven Acquisitions in Academic Libraries
« Demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) programs have become a well-established approach toward integrating user involvement in the process of building academic libr...
Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs
« Introduction : Open Access and licenses are closely intertwined. Both Creative Commons (CC) and Open Access seek to restore the balance between the owners of...
Research Data Explored II: the Anatomy and Reception of figshare
This is the second paper in a series of bibliometric studies of research data. In this paper, we present an analysis of figshare, one of the largest multidiscip...
A systematic review of barriers to data sharing in public health
« Background : In the current information age, the use of data has become essential for decision making in public health at the local, national, and global leve...