Why scientific publications should be anonymous
Numerous studies have revealed biases within the scientific communication system and across all scientific fields. For example, already prominent researchers re...
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Researchers and Their Data : Results of an Austrian Survey
This report provides an overview of the Austria-wide survey for research data, which was carried out within the framework of the project e-Infrastructures Austr...
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...
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 ...