Donations as a Source of Income for Open Access Journals: An Option To Consider?
« Online open access journals allow readers to view scholarly articles without a subscription or other payment barrier. However, publishing costs must still be ...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
The Users of Library Publishing Services: Readers and Access Beyond Open
« This article analyzes the discourse of library publishing, examining how the needs of library users have (or haven’t) been framed as core concerns in key coll...
Interpreting « altmetrics »: viewing acts on social media through the lens of citation and social theories
« More than 30 years after Cronin’s seminal paper on « the need for a theory of citing » (Cronin, 1981), the metrics community is once again in need of a ...
Data journals: A survey
Data occupy a key role in our information society. However, although the amount of published data continues to grow and terms such as data deluge and big data t...
Is Europe Falling Behind in Data Mining? Copyright’s Impact on Data Mining in Academic Research
« This empirical paper discusses how copyright affects data mining (DM) by academic researchers. Based on bibliometric data, we show that where DM for academic ...
Revues scientifiques et droit d’auteur : la rupture de l’open access
« L’apparition du numérique a constitué pour l’édition scientifique une étape essentielle, comme pour de nombreux autres secteurs des industries dit...
Characterizing Social Media Metrics of Scholarly Papers: The Effect of Document Properties and Collaboration Patterns
« A number of new metrics based on social media platforms—grouped under the term “altmetrics”—have recently been introduced as potential indicators of research ...