Democratic Potential of New Models of Scholarship and the Crisis of Control
This paper frames the serials crisis as a loss of control over libraries’ collections and development budgets. While libraries have always had to contend with b...
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Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. Whi...
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...
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...