Let’s Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation
« The ways in which research data is used and handled continue to capture public attention and are the focus of increasing interest. Electronic publishing is in...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Countries in the Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet)
« We discuss the results of a survey conducted between April 2013 and May 2014 in six Mediterranean countries and covering 2,528 researchers from Spain (1,291),...
Evaluating big deal journal bundles
« Large commercial publishers sell bundled online subscriptions to their entire list of academic journals at prices significantly lower than the sum of their á ...
Quality of author guidelines of journals in the biomedical and physical sciences
« To assess quantitatively the completeness and clarity of author guidelines of international English-language journals in the biomedical and physical sciences,...
The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories
Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Goog...
Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
« African scholarly research is relatively invisible for three primary reasons: While research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is f...
EPISCIENCES – an overlay publication platform
This paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repo...