On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We f...
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The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged st...
OpenTrials: towards a collaborative open database of all available information on all clinical trials
OpenTrials is a collaborative and open database for all available structured data and documents on all clinical trials, threaded together by individual trial. W...
Open Access Temptations: Buyer Beware
Backlash against « megapublishers” which began in mathematics a decade ago has led to an exponential growth in open access journals. Their increasing numbers an...
The Paradox of Privacy: Revisiting a Core Library Value in an Age of Big Data and Linked Data
Protecting user privacy and confidentiality is fundamental to the ethics and practice of librarianship, and such protection constitutes one of eleven values in ...
Advocating for Librarianship: The Discourses of Advocacy and Service in the Professional Identities of Librarians
A dedication to service is often cited as a hallmark of a profession. Service is included as one of eleven Core Values in the American Library Association’s “Co...
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...