Confronting the Crisis in Scientific Publishing: Latency, Licensing and Access
The serials crisis in scientific publishing can be traced to the long duration of copyright protection and the assignment of copyright by researchers to publish...
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Sustainability of Open Access Services
« Although some services that support Open Access have developed a sustainable business model, many started as projects and continue to run on recurrent project...
In science « there is no bad publicity »: Papers criticized in technical comments have high scientific impact
Technical comments are special types of scientific publications whose aim is to correct or criticize previously published papers. Often, comments are negatively...
Open by default: a proposed copyright license and waiver agreement for open access research and data in peer-reviewed journals
Copyright and licensing of scientific data, internationally, are complex and present legal barriers to data sharing, integration and reuse, and therefore restri...
The Embedded Repository: Introducing an Institutional Repository to a New Audience Via Location-Aware Social Networking
Authors : Robin A. Bedenbaugh, Holly Mercer The authors report the outcome of a partnership between a university marketing and communications department and a u...
Can’t surf, won’t surf: The digital divide in mental health
Background: New health information technology (HIT) increasingly plays a role in health care as technology becomes cheaper and more widespread. However, there i...
The persistence of error: a study of retracted articles on the Internet and in personal libraries
Objective To determine the accessibility of retracted articles residing on non-publisher websites and in personal libraries. Methods Searches were performed to ...