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...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
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...
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...
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...