Sci-Hub, a challenge for academic and research libraries
Authors : Llarina González-Solar, Viviana Fernández-Marcial Sci-Hub emerged into the field of scientific communication in 2011 as a platform for free access to ...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
How to Fight Fair Use Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt : The Experience of One Open Educational Resource
Author : Lindsey Weeramuni At the launch of one of the early online open educational resources (OER) in 2002, the approach to addressing copyright was uncertain...
Open Practices in Public Higher Education in Portugal: faculty perspectives
Authors : Paula Cardoso, Lina Morgado, António Teixeira In recent years, the Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access (OA) movements have been essential...
Seeking, Reading, and Use of Scholarly Articles: An International Study of Perceptions and Behavior of Researchers
Authors : Carol Tenopir, Lisa Christian, Jordan Kaufman While journal articles are still considered the most important sources of scholarly reading, libraries m...
Can Google Scholar and Mendeley help to assess the scholarly impacts of dissertations?
Authors : Kayvan Kousha, Mike Thelwall Dissertations can be the single most important scholarly outputs of junior researchers. Whilst sets of journal articles a...
Who Is (Likely) Peer-Reviewing Your Papers? A Partial Insight into the World’s Top Reviewers
Authors : Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D’Amico, Tom Rye Scientific publishing is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of outputs across all fields. Inevi...
Replicable Services for Reproducible Research: A Model for Academic Libraries
Authors : Franklin Sayre, Amy Riegelman Over the past decade, evidence from disciplines ranging from biology to economics has suggested that many scientific stu...