The role of « open » in strategic library planning
Academic libraries are undergoing evolutionary change as emerging technologies and new philosophies about how information is created, distributed, and shared ha...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Measuring, Rating, Supporting, and Strengthening Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Brazil
This study assesses the extent and nature of open access scholarly publishing in Brazil, one of the world’s leaders in providing universal access to its researc...
Quantifying the changing role of past publications
Our current societies increasingly rely on electronic repositories of collective knowledge. An archetype of these databases is the Web of Science (WoS) that sto...
French and US librarians’ Perception Regarding e-Book Reading Data Protection: A Comparative Survey
This paper tackles the e-book reading data protection issue from the library’s point of view. To identify the librarians’ awareness and perception about this to...
Open Access – the better access? Academic publishing and its politics
Open Access to scholarly literature seems to dominate current discussions in the academic publishing, research funding and science policy arenas. Several intern...
Fifty shades of open
Open source. Open access. Open society. Open knowledge. Open government. Even open food. The word “open” has been applied to a wide variety of words to create n...
Tackling complexity in an interdisciplinary scholarly network: Requirements for semantic publishing
Scholarly communication is complex. The clarification of concepts like “academic publication”, “document”, “semantics” and “ontology” facilitates tracking the l...