Wikipedia: the difference between information acquisition and learning knowledge
This paper attempts to define Wikipedia in an information literacy context by providing an analysis of learning knowledge and Wikipedia’s structure. The distrib...
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Semantic representation of scientific literature: bringing claims, contributions and named entities onto the Linked Open Data cloud
Motivation Finding relevant scientific literature is one of the essential tasks researchers are facing on a daily basis. Digital libraries and web information r...
Donor Funded Open Educational Resources: Making the Case
PURPOSE This paper aims to explain the concept of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how libraries can make a good case to donors to fund these types of proje...
Science bloggers’ self-perceived communication roles
This study addresses an open question about science bloggers’ self-perceived roles as science communicators. Previous research has investigated the roles ...
Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
Considering Non-Open Access Publication Charges in the “Total Cost of Publication”
Recent research has tried to calculate the “total cost of publication” in the British academic sector, bringing together the costs of journal subscriptions, the...
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...