Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles
Authors : Rosalyn Bass, Sarah Slowe Open Access has been supported at the University of Kent from an early stage with the establishment of the Kent Academic Rep...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Digital Publishing: A Home for Faculty in the Library — Exercises in Innovation from Harvard Law School
Authors : Claire DeMarco, Kyle Courtney This article highlights specific examples of desire by faculty at Harvard Law School to push legal scholarship beyond th...
The World’s Approach toward Publishing in Springer and Elsevier’s APC-Funded Open Access Journals
Authors : Hajar Sotudeh, Zahra Ghasempour Purpose The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels...
Comparing scientific and technological impact of biomedical research
Author : Qing Ke Traditionally, the number of citations that a scholarly paper receives from other papers is used as the proxy of its scientific impact. Yet cit...
Tweet success? Scientific communication correlates with increased citations in Ecology and Conservation
Authors : Clayton T. Lamb, Sophie L. Gilbert, Adam T. Ford Science communication is seen as critical for the disciplines of ecology and conservation, where res...
Pubpeer: vigilante science, journal club or alarm raiser? The controversies over anonymity in post-publication peer review
Author : Didier Torny The more journal peer review (JPR) became a scientific topic, the more it has been the subject of criticisms and controversies. Repeated f...
Practices of research data curation in institutional repositories: A qualitative view from repository staff
Authors : Dong Joon Lee, Besiki Stvilia The importance of managing research data has been emphasized by the government, funding agencies, and scholarly communit...