Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication
Authors : Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly com...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Open Access and Global Inclusion: A Look at Cuba
Authors : Authors : Elizabeth Jardine, Maureen Garvey, J. Silvia Cho Is the Open Access movement meeting its goal of equalizing access to research worldwide? Wh...
Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)
Authors : Joachim Schöpfel, Coline Ferrant, Francis André, Renaud Fabre Purpose The paper presents empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French sc...
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
Authors : Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used ...
Looking Into Pandora’s Box: The Content Of Sci-Hub And Its Usage
Author : Bastian Greshake Despite the growth of Open Access, illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phe...
Strengthening institutional data management and promoting data sharing in the social and economic sciences
Authors : Monika Linne, Wolfgang Zenk-Möltgen In the German social and economic sciences there is a growing awareness of flexible data distribution and research...
A scientists’ view of scientometrics: Not everything that counts can be counted
Authors : Ralph Kenna, Olesya Mryglod, Bertrand Berche Like it or not, attempts to evaluate and monitor the quality of academic research have become increasingl...