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...
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...
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...
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...
As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books’ academic impact mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interroga...
To boost their research productivities, Chinese universities are putting great pressure on their research-active staff to publish in internationally indexed jou...
This paper discusses the availability of open access books which are available in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The relevant data has been collecte...