Amplifying the Impact of Open Access: Wikipedia and the Diffusion of Science
Authors : Misha Teplitskiy, Grace Lu, Eamon Duede With the rise of Wikipedia as a first-stop source for scientific knowledge, it is important to compare its rep...
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Data journals: A survey
Data occupy a key role in our information society. However, although the amount of published data continues to grow and terms such as data deluge and big data t...
New Consortial Model for E-Books Acquisitions
Author : Luke Swindler E-books constitute major challenges for library collections generally and present fundamental problems for consortial collection developm...
Study of Open Access Publishing in Social Sciences and its Implications for Libraries
The Open Access Movement (OAM), which started as a gradual realisation by authors mainly in biomedical sciences to make available results of public-funded resea...
Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing
Author : Guillaume Cabanac Research articles disseminate the knowledge produced by the scientific community. Access to this literature is crucial for researcher...
Research Data Explored II: the Anatomy and Reception of figshare
This is the second paper in a series of bibliometric studies of research data. In this paper, we present an analysis of figshare, one of the largest multidiscip...
Indian research going global: A study on the status of open access publishing
Aims to measure quantitatively the scholarly journals which were produced with full immediate open access (OA) from 2003 to 2013. Focuses on the amount of India...