New Consortial Model for E-Books Acquisitions
Author : Luke Swindler E-books constitute major challenges for library collections generally and present fundamental problems for consortial collection developm...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Study on Perspectives Regarding Deposit on Open Access Repositories in the Context of Public Universities in the Central-Eastern Region of Argentina
« This article presents the results of a survey and qualitative study of needs and practices of open access scholarly works dissemination.The survey and study f...
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
« This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access busi...
Searching for Explanations: How the Internet Inflates Estimates of Internal Knowledge
« As the Internet has become a nearly ubiquitous resource for acquiring knowledge about the world, questions have arisen about its potential effects on cognitio...
Study of Open Access Publishing in Social Sciences and its Implications for Libraries
The Open Access Movement (OAM), which started as a gradual realisation by authors mainly in biomedical sciences to make available results of public-funded resea...
It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository
« INTRODUCTION Many institutions have open access (OA) policies that require faculty members to deposit their articles in an institutional repository (IR). A cl...
Getting the Word Out Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
« In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment to b...