What do computer scientists tweet? Analyzing the link-sharing practice on Twitter
Authors : Marco Schmitt, Robert Jäschke Twitter communication has permeated every sphere of society. To highlight and share small pieces of information with pos...
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Information in the ecosystem: Against the “information ecosystem”
Authors : Timothy B. Norris, Todd Suomela The “information ecosystem” metaphor is widely used in academic libraries and has become nearly ubiquitous when speaki...
The interactive library as a virtual working space
Author : Andreas Degkwitz The internet and the new digital media are challenging the traditional business model of academic libraries and enable new capabilitie...
Academics’ behaviors and attitudes towards open access publishing in scholarly journals
Authors : Jennifer Rowley, Frances Johnson, Laura Sbaffi, Will Frass, Elaine Devine While there is significant progress with policy and a lively debate regardin...
How quickly do publications get read? The evolution of Mendeley reader counts for new articles
Authors : Nabeil Maflahi, Mike Thelwall Within science, citation counts are widely used to estimate research impact but publication delays mean that they are no...
Evolution of Wikipedia’s medical content: past, present and future
Authors : Thomas Shafee, Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Diptanshu Da, Mikael Häggström, James Heilman As one of the most commonly read online sources of med...
Toward a homogenization of academic social sites: a longitudinal study of profiles in Academia.edu, Google Scholar Citations and ResearchGate
Author : José Luis Ortega Purpose The main objective is to analyse the distribution of profiles from academic social networking sites according to disciplines, ...