The interactive library as a virtual working space
Author : Andreas Degkwitz The internet and the new digital media are challenging the traditional business model of academic libraries and enable new capabilitie...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Academics’ behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals
Authors : Jennifer Rowley, Frances Johnson, Laura Sbaffi, Will Frass, Elaine Devine While there is significant progress with policy and a lively debate regardin...
How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
Authors : Nabeil Maflahi, Mike Thelwall Within science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are no...
Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future
Authors : Thomas Shafee, Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Diptanshu Da, Mikael Häggström, James Heilman As one of the most commonly read online sources of med...
Toward a homogenization of academic social sites: a longitudinal study of profiles in Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate
Author : José Luis Ortega Purpose The main objective is to analyse the distribution of profiles from academic social networking sites according to disciplines, ...
Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation
Authors : Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, Corey Lang INTRODUCTION The popularity of academic social networks like ResearchGate and Acade...
The unbearable emptiness of tweeting — About journal articles
Authors : Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Rodrigo Costas, Kimberley Isett, Julia Melkers, Diana Hicks Enthusiasm for using Twitter as a source of data in the social sc...