Citation Count Analysis for Papers with Preprints
Authors : Sergey Feldman, Kyle Lo, Waleed Ammar We explore the degree to which papers prepublished on arXiv garner more citations, in an attempt to paint a shar...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
The evolving preprint landscape: Introductory report for the Knowledge Exchange working group on preprints
Authors : Jonathan Tennant, Serge Bauin, Sarah James, Juliane Kant In 1961, the USA National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched a program called Information Ex...
The once and future library: the role of the (national) library in supporting research
Author: Torsten Reimer The global research environment is changing rapidly and with it the role of libraries in facilitating research. Taking the British Librar...
Five principles to navigate a bumpy golden road towards open access
Authors : Matthijs van Otegem, Sofie Wennström, Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen The publishing ecosystem of the future will be built on several models such as offsett...
Are funder Open Access platforms a good idea?
Authors : Tony Ross-Hellauer, Birgit Schmidt, Bianca Kramer As open access to publications continues to gather momentum we should continuously question whether...
Peer-review under review – A statistical study on proposal ranking at ESO. Part I: the pre-meeting phase
Author : Ferdinando Patat Peer review is the most common mechanism in place for assessing requests for resources in a large variety of scientific disciplines. O...
Shadow Libraries : Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
Author : Joe Karaganis Examining the new ecosystems of access that are emerging in middle- and low-income countries as opportunities for higher education expand...