The data paper: a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science
Background Free and open access to primary biodiversity data is essential for informed decision-making to achieve conservation of biodiversity and sustainable d...
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A Study of Open Access Journals Using Article Processing Charges
Article Processing Charges (APCs) are a central mechanism for funding Open Access (OA) scholarly publishing. We studied the APCs charged and article volumes of ...
Libraries and the network: Some considerations on how libraries are affected by the network
While the effects of the internet on libraries was recognized relatively early, few works have addressed network dynamics in terms of library operations. This e...
Digital repositories ten years on: what do scientific researchers think of them and how do they use them?
Digital repositories have been with us for more than a decade, and despite the considerable media and conference attention they engender, we know very little ab...
A Preliminary Examination of the Cost Savings and Learning Impacts of Using Open Textbooks in Middle and High School Science Classes
Proponents of open educational resources claim that significant cost savings are possible when open textbooks displace traditional textbooks in the classroom. O...
The impact of open access initiative on knowledge sharing
The main focus of this paper is to look at the role of the open access initiative (OAI) as a channel for knowledge sharing that could be used for the disseminat...
Open Access, scholarship and digital anthropology
This paper consists of three arguments. The first advocates the development of Open Access for anthropological books and journals and critiques the way we have ...