Student Reading Practices in Print and Electronic Media
« This paper reports a diary-based qualitative study on college students’ reading habits with regard to print and electronic media. Students used a form to reco...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Don’t Fear the Reader: Librarian versus Interlibrary Loan Patron-Driven Acquisition of Print Books at an Academic Library by Relative Collecting Level and by Library of Congress Classes and Subclasses
« Recently, a great deal of literature on patron-driven acquisition (PDA) has been published that addresses the implementation and results of PDA programs at ac...
The impact factors of open access and subscription journals across fields
« We have compared the 2-year and 5-year impact factors (IFs), normalized impact factors (NIFs) and rank normalized impact factors (RNIFs) of open access (OA) a...
The big picture: scholarly publishing trends 2014
It is important for journal editors to keep up to date with the changes happening in the international journal environment to ensure that their own publications...
Scholarly communication, scholarly publishing and university libraries. Plus ca change ?
« The scholarly communication and research evaluation landscape is locked into historical paradigms which inadequately reflect the opportunities of the digital ...
The dynamic nature of conflict in Wikipedia
« The voluntary process of Wikipedia edition provides an environment where the outcome is clearly a collective product of interactions involving a large number ...
The Development of Open Access Repositories in the Asia-Oceania Region: A Case Study of Three Institutions
« In recent years, open access models of publishing have transcended traditional modes thus enabling freer access to research. This paper takes a trans-regional...