Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers
Author : Luis Reyes-Galindo This paper describes the intense software filtering that has allowed the arXiv eprint repository to sort and process large numbers o...
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To what extent does the Leiden Manifesto also apply to altmetrics? A discussion of the manifesto against the background of research into altmetrics
Authors : Lutz Bornmann, Robin Haunschild Purpose Hicks, Wouters, Waltman, de Rijcke, and Rafols (2015) have formulated the so-called Leiden manifesto, in which...
Choosing Collaboration Partners. How Scientific Success in Physics Depends on Network Positions
Authors : Raphael H. Heiberger, Oliver J. Wieczorek Physics is one of the most successful endeavors in science. Being a prototypic big science it also reflects ...
Large scale implementation of open access: a case study at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Authors : Anna Krzak, Dominic Tate Journal papers and conference proceedings accepted for publication from April 2016 must be deposited in an institutional and/...
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
Authors : David Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their p...
The Open Flip – a digital economic model for education
Author : Martin Weller The advent of the internet and digital technologies has given rise to a number of new economic models. These have often been applied to e...
Positioning extension Massive Open Online Courses (xMOOCs) within the open access and the lifelong learning agendas in a developing setting
Author : Bernard Nkuyubwatsi Recent reports on xMOOCs indicated that underprivileged learners in need for higher education have minimally been reached by these ...