Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014
As of May 2014, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed close to ten thousand fully open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals. Most of these jo...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles
« Although a large body of literature has suggested that doctoral supervisors play an important role in their students’ attempts at scholarly publishing, few st...
English Writing for International Publication in the Age of Globalization: Practices and Perceptions of Mainland Chinese Academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
« Much scholarly attention has been given to the English writing and publishing practices of the academics in non-Anglophone countries, but studies on such prac...
Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities
« It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis h...
Highly-cited papers in Library and Information Science (LIS): Authors, institutions, and network structures
« As a follow-up to the highly-cited authors list published by Thomson Reuters in June 2014, we analyze the top-1% most frequently cited papers published betwee...
Attention decay in science
« The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to th...
A Two-Step Model for Assessing Relative Interest in E-books Compared to Print
« Librarians often wish to know whether readers in a particular discipline favor e-books or print books. Because print circulation and e-book usage statistics a...