The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engine...
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Free-riding, cooperation, and ‘peaceful revolutions’ in copyright
Modern copyright law is based on the inescapable assumption that users, given the choice, will free-ride rather than pay for access. In fact, many consumers of ...
On the Role of Research Data Centres in the Management of Publication-related Research Data
This paper summarizes the findings of an analysis of scientific infrastructure service providers (mainly from Germany but also from other European countries). T...
Novel Research Impact Indicators
Citation counts and more recently usage statistics provide valuable information about the attention and research impact associated with scholarly publications. ...
Bringing Digital Science Deep Inside the Scientific Article: the Elsevier Article of the Future Project
The ICT revolution of the last decades impacted scientific communication as it has impacted many other forms of communications, changing the way in which articl...
Open access journals in Humanities and Social Science
This British Academy research project on the effects of current UK open access policies was funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) a...
Access to Research: the experience of implementing a pilot in public libraries
The Access to Research project is a collaboration between scholarly publishers and librarians to provide free licensed access to research journals via terminals...