Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?
Authors : Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Subbiah Arunachalam We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers publ...
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Developing a theory of open access: a grounded theory based literature review
Author : Kent-Inge Andersson The thesis presents a conceptual literature review of the subject of open access as it is reflected in literature relevant to digit...
Collecting Space Use Data to Improve the UX of Library Space
Authors : Shelley Gullikson, Kristin Meyer Collecting data about where people are and what they are doing is an easy entry point into exploring the UX of librar...
Opening Review in LIS Journals: A Status Report
Author : Emily Ford INTRODUCTION Peer-review practices in scholarly publishing are changing. Digital publishing mechanisms allow for open peer review, a peer re...
Revisiting an open access monograph experiment: measuring citations and tweets 5 years later
Author : Ronald Snijder An experiment run in 2009 could not assess whether making monographs available in open access enhanced scholarly impact. This paper revi...
Researchers’ Individual Publication Rate Has Not Increased in a Century
Authors : Daniele Fanelli, Vincent Larivière Debates over the pros and cons of a “publish or perish” philosophy have inflamed academia for at least half a centu...
Do Younger Researchers Assess Trustworthiness Differently when Deciding what to Read and Cite and where to Publish?
Authors : David Nicholas, Hamid R. Jamali, Anthony Watkinson, Eti Herman, Carol Tenopir, Rachel Volentine, Suzie Allard, Kenneth Levine An international survey ...