Lasting Impact: Sustainability of Disciplinary Repositories
Librarians need to be familiar with the evolving aspects of scholarly communication and the changing scholarly record. One component of that is the role of repo...
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Bibliometric methods for detecting and analysing emerging research topics
This study gives an overview of the process of clustering scientific disciplines using hybrid methods, detecting and labelling emerging topics and analysing the...
Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Publish-or-Perish Culture: A Worldwide Survey
How does publication pressure in modern-day universities affect the intrinsic and extrinsic rewards in science? By using a worldwide survey among demographers i...
Citing patterns in Open Access journals: a study of D-Lib Magazine
The purpose of this study was to investigate the pattern of citing references of research articles published in D-Lib Magazine during 2002 to 2008. A total of 4...
The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
This book brings together essays by academics, librarians, entrepreneurs, activists and policy makers, who were all part of the EU-funded Communia project. Toge...
Altmetrics in the wild: Using social media to explore scholarly impact
In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nat...
Open access, virtual science libraries, geospatial analysis and other complementary information and communications technology and science, technology, engineering and mathematics assets to address development issues, with particular attention to education
This report provides an overview of how open access, virtual science libraries, and geographic information systems (GIS) could be harnessed to address developme...