The emergence of electronic books publishing in Spain
« After reference books and scientific journals, electronic books represent the next level of evolution in the digital revolution. Their presence in libraries a...
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Back to the future: authors, publishers and ideas in a copy-friendly environment
How could scholars survive in a copy-friendly environment jeopardizing the established system of scholarly publishing in which scientific publishers seemed to b...
Open Science in Practice: Researcher Perspectives and Participation
We report on an exploratory study consisting of brief case studies in selected disciplines, examining what motivates researchers to work (or want to work) in an...
Peer Review in Academic Promotion and Publishing: Its Meaning, Locus, and Future
Since 2005, and with generous support from the A.W. Mellon Foundation, The Future of Scholarly Communication Project at UC Berkeley’s Center for Studies i...
Working Together to Reduce Plagiarism and Promote Academic Integrity: A Collaborative Initiative at Leicester
This staff student collaboration arose from a staff-led research project that examined the potential for an American-style honor code system to reduce plagiaris...
Characterising and Preserving Digital Repositories: File Format Profiles
Steve Hitchcock and David Tarrant show how file format profiles, the starting point for preservation plans and actions, can also be used to reveal the fingerpri...
Intellectual Property’s Great Fallacy
Intellectual property law has long been justified on the belief that external incentives are necessary to get people to produce artistic works and technological...