The Miracle of Peer Review and Development in Science: An Agent-Based Model
Authors : Simone Righi, Károly Takács It is not easy to rationalize how peer review, as the current grassroots of science, can work based on voluntary contribut...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Science Concierge: A Fast Content-Based Recommendation System for Scientific Publications
Authors : Titipat Achakulvisut, Daniel E. Acuna, Tulakan Ruangrong , Konrad Kording Finding relevant publications is important for scientists who have to cope w...
Obstacles to Scholarly Publishing in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Case Study of Vietnamese Scholars
Authors : Phuong Dzung Pho, Thi Minh Phuong Tran Publishing scientific research is very important in contributing to the knowledge of a discipline and in sharin...
The Costs of Open and Closed Access: Using the Finnish Research Output as an Example
Authors : Jyrki Ilva, Markku Antero Laitinen, Jarmo Saarti The Open Access movement in scientific publishing has been gathering momentum in the European Union a...
Agreements between Industry and Academia on Publication Rights : A Retrospective Study of Protocols and Publications of Randomized Clinical Trials
Authors : Benjamin Kasenda, Erik von Elm, John J. You, Anette Blümle, Yuki Tomonaga, Ramon Saccilotto et al. Background Little is known about publication agreem...
Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action : Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much
Author : John Wenzler Why has the rise of the Internet – which drastically reduces the cost of distributing information – coincided with drastic inc...
Open Access, Innovation, and Research Infrastructure
Authors : Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner In this article we argue that the current endeavors to achieve open access in scientific literature require a discussi...