The Impact of the German ‘DEAL’ on Competition in the Academic Publishing Market
Authors : Justus Haucap, Nima Moshgbar, Wolfgang Benedikt Schmal The German DEAL agreements between German universities and research institutions on the one sid...
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Problematizing Peer Review: Academic Librarians’ Pedagogical Approaches to Peer Review
Authors : Lana Mariko Wood, Gr Keer INTRODUCTION This study is the first to consider how academic librarians’ understanding of and participation in the peer rev...
Does Conflict of Interest Distort Global University Rankings?
Author : Igor Chirikov Global university rankings influence students’ choices and higher education policies throughout the world. When rankers not only evaluate...
Data Management Plans in Horizon 2020: what beneficiaries think and what we can learn from their experience
Author : Daniel Spichtinger Background Data Management Plans (DMPs) are at the heart of many research funder requirements for data management and open data, inc...
The Changing Landscape of Open Access Publishing: Can Open Access Publishing Make the Scholarly World More Equitable and Productive?
Author : Richard G. Dudley Almost 50% of scholarly articles are now open access in some form. This greatly benefits scholars at most institutions and is especia...
Transparency, provenance and collections as data: the National Library of Scotland’s Data Foundry
Author : Sarah Ames ‘Collections as data’ has become a core activity for libraries in recent years: it is important that we make collections available in machin...
Prevalence of nonsensical algorithmically generated papers in the scientific literature
Authors : Guillaume Cabanac, Cyril Labbé In 2014 leading publishers withdrew more than 120 nonsensical publications automatically generated with the SCIgen prog...