Back to the past: on the shoulders of an academic search engine giant
A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (19...
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Measuring Book Impact Based on the Multi-granularity Online Review Mining
As with articles and journals, the customary methods for measuring books’ academic impact mainly involve citations, which is easy but limited to interroga...
Perish or Publish in China: Pressures on Young Chinese Scholars to Publish in Internationally Indexed Journals
To boost their research productivities, Chinese universities are putting great pressure on their research-active staff to publish in internationally indexed jou...
Availability of Open Access Books in DOAB: An Analytical Study
This paper discusses the availability of open access books which are available in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). The relevant data has been collecte...
Transparency: the emerging third dimension of Open Science and Open Data
This paper presents an exploration of the concept of research transparency. The policy context is described and situated within the broader arena of open scienc...
Transforming Roles: Canadian Academic Librarians Embedded in Faculty Research Projects
Academic librarians have always played an important role in providing research services and research-skills development to faculty in higher education. But that...
Achieving human and machine accessibility of cited data in scholarly publications
Reproducibility and reusability of research results is an important concern in scientific communication and science policy. A foundational element of reproducib...