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...
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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...
Scholarly Context Not Found: One in Five Articles Suffers from Reference Rot
The emergence of the web has fundamentally affected most aspects of information communication, including scholarly communication. The immediacy that characteriz...
An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development
The choice of an efficient document preparation system is an important decision for any academic researcher. To assist the research community, we report a softw...
Issues in the development of open access to research data
This paper explores key issues in the development of open access to research data. The use of digital means for developing, storing and manipulating data is cre...