Barriers to Initiation of Open Source Software Projects in Libraries
« Libraries share a number of core values with the Open Source Software (OSS) movement, suggesting there should be a natural tendency toward library participati...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
From Peer-Reviewed to Peer-Reproduced in Scholarly Publishing: The Complementary Roles of Data Models and Workflows in Bioinformatics
Motivation Reproducing the results from a scientific paper can be challenging due to the absence of data and the computational tools required for their analysis...
Fair Shares and Sharing Fairly: A Survey of Public Views on Open Science, Informed Consent and Participatory Research in Biobanking
« Context Biobanks are important resources which enable large-scale genomic research with human samples and data, raising significant ethical concerns about how...
Much Obliged: Analyzing the Importance and Impact of Acknowledgements in Scholarly Communication
« Author rights, peer review, open access, and the role of institutional repositories have all come under scrutiny by scholars, librarians, and legal experts in...
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...
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...