The rent’s too high: Self-archive for fair online publication costs
Authors : Robert T. Thibault, Amanda MacPherson, Stevan Harnad, Amir Raz The main contributors of scientific knowledge, researchers, generally aim to disseminat...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Towards a culture of open science and data sharing in health and medical research
Author : Anisa Rowhani-Farid This thesis investigated the factors that contribute to the cultural shift towards open science and data sharing in health and medi...
How open is open access research in Library and Information Science?
Authors : Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha The study investigates Library and Information Science (LIS) journals that published research article...
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Philippe Mongeon, Kyle Siler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in indu...
Statistics on Open Access Books Available through the Directory of Open Access Books
Author : Keita Tsuji Open Access (OA) books available through the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) are investigated and the number of titles, the distribut...
Systematic analysis of agreement between metrics and peer review in the UK REF
Authors : Vincent Traag, Ludo Waltman When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics whereas others, such as the UK, pr...
Ethical Concerns in the Rise of Co-Authorship and Its Role as a Proxy of Research Collaborations
Author : Sameer Kumar Increasing specialization, changes in the institutional incentives for publication, and a host of other reasons have brought about a marke...