E-books: Histories, trajectories, futures
« This essay traces the historical trajectory of e-books in the U.S. and imagines their possible futures. Legal, economic, and technical developments that led t...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Presse et numérique – L’invention d’un nouvel écosystème
« La presse écrite et l’édition numérique d’information sont au coeur de la mutation des moyens de communication. Le rapport dresse un panorama du n...
Evolution or revolution? Publishers’ perceptions of future directions in research communications and the publisher role
« This report presents a snapshot of the views of a wide range of publishers, covering their perceptions of future directions in research communications, schola...
The use of open resources among highly cited young Ukrainian scientists
« There are scientific and educational institutions in Ukraine which actively introduce and fill up open sources in web to make integration of Ukrainian scienti...
Promoting Open Knowledge and Open Science : Report of the Current State of Repositories
« This briefing paper presents an overview of the international repository landscape. The paper has been produced by COAR on behalf of the Aligning Repository N...
For 481 biomedical open access journals, articles are not searchable in the Directory of Open Access Journals nor in conventional biomedical databases
« Background. Open access (OA) journals allows access to research papers free of charge to the reader. Traditionally, biomedical researchers use databases like ...
Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth?
« A “mega-journal” is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, ...