Effective Practices and Strategies for Open Access Outreach: A Qualitative Study
Author : Diane (DeDe) Dawson INTRODUCTION There are many compelling reasons to make research open access (OA), but raising the awareness of faculty and administ...
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Format Aside: Applying Beall’s Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals
Authors : Joseph D. Olivarez, Stephen Bales, Laura Sare, Wyoma vanDuinkerken Jeffrey Beall’s blog listing of potential predatory journals and publishers, as wel...
Worth the Wait? Using Past Patterns to Determine Wait Periods for E-Books Released After Print
Author : Karen Kohn This paper asks if there is an optimal wait period for e-books that balances libraries’ desire to acquire books soon after their publication...
Reproducible research and GIScience: an evaluation using AGILE conference papers
Authors : Daniel Nüst, Carlos Granell, Barbara Hofer, Markus Konkol, Frank O Ostermann, Rusne Sileryte, Valentina Cerutti The demand for reproducibility of res...
Data sharing and reanalysis of randomized controlled trials in leading biomedical journals with a full data sharing policy: survey of studies published in The BMJ and PLOS Medicine
Authors : Florian Naudet, Charlotte Sakarovitch, Perrine Janiaud, Ioana Cristea, Daniele Fanelli, David Moher, John P A Ioannidis Objectives To explore the effe...
Impact of Institutional Repositories’ on Scholarly Practices of Scientists
Authors : Prachi Shukla, Naved Ahmad Institutional Repositories (IRs) are established mainly to provide access to information resources which are otherwise not ...
Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...