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,...
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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...
EPISCIENCES – an overlay publication platform
This paper delineates the main characteristics of the Episciences platform, an environment for overlay peer-reviewing that complements existing publication repo...
Impact of assessment criteria on publication behaviour: the case of communication research in Spain
« Introduction: This paper outlines the evolution of Spanish production in the area of communication research over the last seventeen years. It analyses whether...
Qu’est-ce qu’une archive de chercheur ?
« Au cours de sa carrière, un chercheur est amené à produire, consulter et conserver différents types de documents. Carnets, agendas, brouillons de toutes forme...
Enclosing the public domain: The restriction of public domain books in a digital environment
« This paper explores restrictions that are being applied to New Zealand public domain books once they have been digitized and hosted online. The study assesses...