Open Access Temptations: Buyer Beware
Backlash against « megapublishers” which began in mathematics a decade ago has led to an exponential growth in open access journals. Their increasing numbers an...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
The Paradox of Privacy: Revisiting a Core Library Value in an Age of Big Data and Linked Data
Protecting user privacy and confidentiality is fundamental to the ethics and practice of librarianship, and such protection constitutes one of eleven values in ...
Advocating for Librarianship: The Discourses of Advocacy and Service in the Professional Identities of Librarians
A dedication to service is often cited as a hallmark of a profession. Service is included as one of eleven Core Values in the American Library Association’s “Co...
Democratic Potential of New Models of Scholarship and the Crisis of Control
This paper frames the serials crisis as a loss of control over libraries’ collections and development budgets. While libraries have always had to contend with b...
Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. Whi...
Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant
A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (19...
Measuring Book Impact Based on the Multi-granularity Online Review Mining
As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books’ academic impact mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interroga...