Wikipedia and the ecosystem of knowledge
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Implementing Institutional Repository in Nigerian Universities : Status, Challenges, Prospects, and the Role of Librarians & Libraries
This is a report of the study carried out in late 2013. In this paper, the authors identify the extent of adoption of Institutional Repository (IR) in various u...
Published Librarian Research, 2008 through 2012: Analyses and Perspectives
This research paper reviews published library science literature from 2008 through 2012 using a purposive sample of 13 Library and Information Science (LIS) jou...
The Scaling Relationship between Citation-Based Performance and Scientific Collaboration in Natural Sciences
The aim of this paper is to extend our knowledge about the power-law relationship between citation-based performance and collaboration patterns for papers of th...
Altmetrics as traces of the computerization of the research process
I propose a broad, multi-dimensional conception of altmetrics, namely as traces of the computerization of the research process. Computerization should be concei...
On full text download and citation distributions in scientific-scholarly journals
A statistical analysis of full text downloads of articles in Elseviers ScienceDirect covering all disciplines reveals large differences in download frequencies,...
Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publis...