On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We f...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged st...
Archives Ouvertes de la Connaissance. Valoriser et diffuser les données de recherche
Projet commun de l’Université de Strasbourg, l’Université de Haute-Alsace, l’Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) et la Bibliothèque Nat...
OpenTrials: towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials
OpenTrials is a collaborative and open database for all available structured data and documents on all clinical trials, threaded together by individual trial. W...
Big data et bibliothèques : traitement et analyse informatiques des collections numériques
Cette étude s’attache à présenter sous quels aspects les collections numériques des bibliothèques relèvent des problématiques propres aux données massives...
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...
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 ...