E-Dissertations: Access and Restrictions (EDAR) Survey 2014 Report
« European and American studies on electronic theses and dissertations (ETD) reveal that one part of digital PhD theses, even if not confidential, is limited to...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Process as Product: Scholarly Communication Experiments in the Digital Humanities
« Scholarly communication outreach and education activities are proliferating in academic libraries. Simultaneously, digital humanists—a group that includes lib...
A Current Snapshot of Institutional Repositories: Growth Rate, Disciplinary Content and Faculty Contributions
« INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to examine current institutional repository (IR) content in order to assess the growth and breadth of content as it...
Identification of Core Journals and Analysis of Collaboration Networks Among Researchers in Ibero America
« INTRODUCTION In this paper we survey scientific production published in Ibero American journals in four subject areas: Medicine, Education, Administration &am...
All That Glisters: Investigating Collective Funding Mechanisms for Gold Open Access in Humanities Disciplines
« BACKGROUND This article sets out the economic problems faced by the humanities disciplines in the transition to gold open access and outlines the bases for in...
From Freshman to Graduate: Making the Case for Student-Centric Institutional Repositories
« INTRODUCTION Institutional repositories provide an opportunity to enhance the undergraduate education experience by developing student-centric collections. Th...
Publish, not Perish: Supporting Graduate Students as Aspiring Authors
« BACKGROUND Students pursuing advanced degrees are increasingly expected to contribute to their discipline’s scholarly discourse during their tenure in graduat...