Why and where Wikipedia is cited in journal articles?
« The aim of this research was to identify the motivations for citation to Wikipedia in scientific papers. Also, the number of citation to Wikipedia, location o...
Catégorie : Non classé
Let’s Put Data to Use: Digital Scholarship for the Next Generation
« The ways in which research data is used and handled continue to capture public attention and are the focus of increasing interest. Electronic publishing is in...
The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Countries in the Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet)
« We discuss the results of a survey conducted between April 2013 and May 2014 in six Mediterranean countries and covering 2,528 researchers from Spain (1,291),...
Evaluating big deal journal bundles
« Large commercial publishers sell bundled online subscriptions to their entire list of academic journals at prices significantly lower than the sum of their á ...
Quality of author guidelines of journals in the biomedical and physical sciences
« To assess quantitatively the completeness and clarity of author guidelines of international English-language journals in the biomedical and physical sciences,...
The dark side of Open Access in Google and Google Scholar: the case of Latin-American repositories
Since repositories are a key tool in making scholarly knowledge open access, determining their presence and impact on the Web is essential, particularly in Goog...
Seeking Impact and Visibility: Scholarly Communication in Southern Africa
« African scholarly research is relatively invisible for three primary reasons: While research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is f...