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...
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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...
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Under the Context of Research Data Librarianship
Author : Jia Liu A digital object identifier (DOI) is an increasingly prominent persistent identifier in finding and accessing scholarly information. This paper...
Open access book usage data – how close is COUNTER to the other kind?
Author : Ronald Snijder In April 2020, the OAPEN Library moved to a new platform, based on DSpace 6. During the same period, IRUS-UK started working on the depl...