Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement
Author : Balazs Bodo 2016 is the year when piracy finally became an unavoidable topic in the domain of scholarly communications. The public exposure of Sci-Hub,...
Étiquette : open access
Research impact of paywalled versus open access papers
Authors : Éric Archambault, Grégoire Côté, Brooke Struck, Matthieu Voorons This note presents data from the 1science oaIndx on the average of relative citations...
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
Authors : Najko Jahn, Marco Tullney Publication fees as a revenue source for open access publishing hold a prominent place on the agendas of researchers, policy...
Automating the Horae: Boundary-work in the age of computers
Author : Luis Reyes-Galindo This paper describes the intense software filtering that has allowed the arXiv eprint repository to sort and process large numbers o...
Large scale implementation of open access: a case study at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Authors : Anna Krzak, Dominic Tate Journal papers and conference proceedings accepted for publication from April 2016 must be deposited in an institutional and/...
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
Authors : David Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their p...
arXiv@25: Key findings of a user survey
Authors : Oya Y. Rieger, Gail Steinhart, Deborah Cooper As part of its 25th anniversary vision-setting process, the arXiv team at Cornell University Library con...