E-Journals and the Big Deal: A Review of the Literature
Author : Cindy Sjoberg Faced with shrinking budgets and increased subscription prices, many academic libraries are seeking ways to reduce the cost of e-journal ...
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Patent citation data in social science research: Overview and best practices
Authors : Adam B. Jaffe, Gaétan de Rassenfosse The last 2 decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the use of patent citation data in social science resear...
Science and Facebook: the same popularity law!
Authors : Zoltán Néda, Levente Varga, Tamás S. Biró The distribution of scientific citations for publications selected with different rules (author, topic, inst...
Quantifying the distribution of editorial power and manuscript decision bias at the mega-journal PLOS ONE
Author : Alexander M. Petersen We analyzed the longitudinal activity of nearly 7,000 editors at the mega-journal PLOS ONE over the 10-year period 2006-2015. Usi...
Laying Tracks as the Train Approaches: Innovative Open Access Book Publishing at Heidelberg University from the Editors’ Point of View
Authors : Andrea Hacker, Elizabeth Corrao In April 2016, Heidelberg University’s newly founded open access publisher heiUP launched the first volume of th...
Data Reuse as a Prisoner’s Dilemma: the social capital of open science
Author : Bradly Alicea Participation in Open Data initiatives require two semi-independent actions: the sharing of data produced by a researcher or group, and a...
Openness of Spanish scholarly journals as measured by access and rights
Authors : Remedios Melero, Mikael Laakso, Miguel Navas-Fernández Metrics regarding Open Access (OA) availability for readers and the enablers of redistribution ...