Open Data in Global Environmental Research: The Belmont Forum’s Open Data Survey
This paper presents the findings of the Belmont Forum’s survey on Open Data which targeted the global environmental research and data infrastructure community. ...
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Wikiometrics: A Wikipedia Based Ranking System
We present a new concept – Wikiometrics – the derivation of metrics and indicators from Wikipedia. Wikipedia provides an accurate representation of ...
Reproducible Research Practices and Transparency across the Biomedical Literature
There is a growing movement to encourage reproducibility and transparency practices in the scientific community, including public access to raw data and protoco...
The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline
Open collaboration systems like Wikipedia need to maintain a pool of volunteer contributors in order to remain relevant. Wikipedia was created through a tremend...
A Two-Step Model for Assessing Relative Interest in E-books Compared to Print
Librarians often wish to know whether readers in a particular discipline favor e-books or print books. Because print circulation and e-book usage statistics are...
Leading by Example? ALA Division Publications, Open Access, and Sustainability
This investigation explores scholarly communication business models in American Library Association (ALA) division peer-reviewed academic journals. Previous stu...
Enabling Open Science: Wikidata for Research
Wiki4R will create an innovative virtual research environment (VRE) for Open Science at scale, engaging both professional researchers and citizen data scientist...