The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era
This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journals. It builds on a series of experiences as a journal editor wh...
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The open research value proposition: How sharing can help researchers succeed
Open access, open data, open source, and other open scholarship practices are growing in necessity and popularity, rapidly becoming part of the integral workflo...
Chemical bibliographic databases: the influence of term indexing policies on topic searches
A comparative study of the three main chemical information systems (Scifinder, Web of Science and Scopus) was performed by studying the indexing policies of tit...
Open Journal Systems and Dataverse Integration– Helping Journals to Upgrade Data Publication for Reusable Research
This article describes the novel open source tools for open data publication in open access journal workflows. This comprises a plugin for Open Journal Systems ...
Collecting and Describing University-Generated Patents in an Institutional Repository: A Case Study from Rice University
Providing an easy method of browsing a university’s patent output can free up valuable research time for faculty, students, and external researchers. This is es...
The cost of reading research. A study of Computer Science publication venues
What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing, specifically...
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing
“Public access to publicly funded research” has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutio...