The One Repo: background, implementation and call for funding
« As scholarly communication undergoes seismic changes, endless opportunities are opening up. In an open-access world, there is potential for Internet-enabled r...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
From Concerned to Cautiously Optimistic: Assessing Faculty Perceptions and Knowledge of Open Access in a Campus-Wide Study
« INTRODUCTION : Though open access publishing has many advantages for scholars, very few are interested in learning about and pursuing open access publishing. ...
Scholarly Communication as a Core Competency: Prevalence, Activities, and Concepts of Scholarly Communication Librarianship as Shown Through Job Advertisements
« INTRODUCTION : The dynamic nature of the scholarly communication landscape has produced a need for the creation of positions specifically focused on these iss...
A Triangulation Method to Dismantling a Disciplinary « Big Deal »
« In late 2012, it appeared that the University Library, University of Saskatchewan would likely no longer be able to afford to subscribe to the entire American...
In abundance: Networked participatory practices as scholarship
« In an era of knowledge abundance, scholars have the capacity to distribute and share ideas and artifacts via digital networks, yet networked scholarship often...
The public impact of Latin America’s approach to open access
« This study explores the extent to which research published in Latin America—where the vast majority of which is made freely available to the public—has an imp...
Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, Eamon Duede With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its rep...