Public Libraries as Publishers: Critical Opportunity
Author : Kathryn M. Conrad Libraries have a long and distinguished history of publishing, since their earliest days. Traditionally libraries published to expose...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Authors : Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, Bård Smedsrød Peer reviewing is mandatory for scientific journals as quality control of submitted manuscrip...
Knowledge discovery through text-based similarity searches for astronomy literature
Author : Wolfgang Kerzendorf The increase in the number of researchers coupled with the ease of publishing and distribution of scientific papers (due to technol...
Is there agreement on the prestige of scholarly book publishers in the Humanities? DELPHI over survey results
Authors : Elea Giménez-Toledo, Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez Despite having an important role supporting assessment processes, criticism towards evaluation systems and...
Opening Up Communication: Assessing Open Access Practices in the Communication Studies Discipline
Author : Teresa Auch Schultz Introduction Open access (OA) citation effect studies have looked at a number of disciplines but not yet the field of communication...
Social Science Data Repositories in Data Deluge: A Case Study at ICPSR Workflow and Practices
Authors : Wei Jeng, Daqing He, Yu Chi Design/methodology/approach We conducted two focus group sessions and one individual interview with eight employees at th...
Current Status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Case Study
Authors : K. C. Das, Kunwar Singh The present study mainly focuses on the current status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Case Study.The pre...