Access, ethics, and piracy
Author : Stuart Lawson Open access has been progressively making more scholarship openly available. But a majority of journal articles are still behind paywalls...
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Use of the Paid Open Access Option in Hybrid Open Access Journals in Agriculture: A Mixed-Methods Study
Authors : Megan Kocher, Julie Kelly We explore the use and usefulness of the hybrid open access publishing model in agricultural sciences using a combination of...
Grand challenges in altmetrics: heterogeneity, data quality and dependencies
Author : Stefanie Haustein As uptake among researchers is constantly increasing, social media are finding their way into scholarly communication and, under the ...
Bibliometrics and academic staff assessment in Polish university libraries – current trends
Authors : Danuta Ryś, Anna Chadaj Academic staff assessment in Poland is, to a large extent, based on bibliographic indicators, such as the number of scientific...
The persistence of open access electronic journals
Author : Elizabeth A. Lightfoot Purpose Open access (OA) electronic journals have been identified as potentially at risk of loss without more coordinated preser...
Open supply? On the future of document supply in the world of open science
Author : Joachim Schöpfel Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a personal viewpoint on the development of document supply in the context of the recen...
Open Access, Privacy, and Human Rights : A Case Study on Ethics in Library and Information Sciences Education
Author : Joachim Schöpfel Purpose How do students comment on ethical principles, which principles are important for their awareness of librarianship, how do the...