The Economic Impacts of Open Science: A Rapid Evidence Assessment
Author : Michael J. Fell A common motivation for increasing open access to research findings and data is the potential to create economic benefits—but evidence ...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Why we publish where we do: Faculty publishing values and their relationship to review, promotion and tenure expectations
Authors : Meredith T. Niles, Lesley A. Schimanski, Erin C. McKiernan, Juan P. Alperin Using an online survey of academics at 55 randomly selected institutions a...
Do Download Reports Reliably Measure Journal Usage? Trusting the Fox to Count Your Hens?
Authors : Alex Wood-Doughty, Ted Bergstrom, Douglas G. Steigerwald Download rates of academic journals have joined citation counts as commonly used indicators o...
Roles and jobs in the open research scholarly communications environment: analysing job descriptions to predict future trends
Author : Nancy Pontika During the past two-decades academic libraries updated current staff job responsibilities or created brand new roles. This allowed them t...
Motivations for textbook and learning resource publishing: Do academics want to publish OA textbooks?
Authors : Ellen Collins, Graham Stone The affordability of textbooks and unsustainable commercial models are issues that many libraries face. As an alternative,...
The Development of the Journal Evaluation Tool to Evaluate the Credibility of Publication Venues
Authors : Nataly Blas, Shilpa Rele, Marie R. Kennedy INTRODUCTION A shared concern among librarians who work in an academic environment is finding effective mec...
Avoiding the “Axe”: Advancing Affordable and Open Education Resources at a Midsize University
Authors: Jennifer Bazeley, Carolyn Haynes, Carla S. Myers, Eric Resnis INTRODUCTION To address the soaring cost of textbooks, higher education institutions have...