Scholarly Communication at the Crossroad: From subscription to Open Access?
Author : Gayle R.Y.C. Chan Recent developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem toward open access (OA) have become highly complex in how researchers di...
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Open access monitoring and business model in Latin America and Middle East: a comparative study based on DOAJ data and criteria
Authors : Ivonne Lujano, Mahmoud Khalifa This research will focus on analyzing the state of open access journals in two regions of developing countries (Latin A...
A Reflection on the Applicability of Google Scholar as a Tool for Comprehensive Retrieval in Bibliometric Research and Systematic Reviews
Authors : Mojgan Houshyar, Hajar Sotudeh Google Scholar has recently attracted great attentions as an open access multidisciplinary citation database, and a too...
Open Access E-Books in the Field of Health Sciences: A Scientometric Study
Authors : Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Ufaira Yaseen Shah The Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a discovery service for open access e-books. It provides a searchabl...
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
Author : Bertil F. Dorch Using Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over...
How are we Measuring Up? Evaluating Research Data Services in Academic Libraries
Authors : Heather L. Coates, Jake Carlson, Ryan Clement, Margaret Henderson, Lisa R Johnston, Yasmeen Shorish INTRODUCTION In the years since the emergence of f...
Science created by crowds: a case study of science crowdfunding in Japan
Authors : Yuko Ikkatai, Euan McKay, Hiromi M. Yokoyama “Science crowdfunding” is a research funding system in which members of the public make small financial c...