Stepping up Open Science Training for European Research
Authors : Birgit Schmidt, Astrid Orth, Gwen Franck, Iryna Kuchma, Petr Knoth, José Carvalho Open science refers to all things open in research and scholarly com...
Étiquette : open access
Open access – the rise and fall of a community-driven model of scientific communication
Author : Joachim Schöpfel In 25 years, open access, i.e. free and unrestricted access to scientific information, has become a significant part of scientific com...
Looking for the Impact of Open Access on Interlibrary Loan
Authors : Collette Mak, Tina Baich The purpose of this paper is to analyze interlibrary loan (ILL) article requests for evidence of a decrease that could be att...
Small scholar-led scholarly journals: Can they survive and thrive in an open access future?
Author : Heather Morrison This article presents early results of a research project designed to further our understanding of how to ensure that small scholar-le...
Can we use altmetrics at the institutional level? A case study analysing the coverage by research areas of four Spanish universities
Authors : Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Evaristo Jiménez-Contreras Social media based indicators or altmetrics have been under scrutiny for th...
Quality Assessment of Studies Published in Open Access and Subscription Journals: Results of a Systematic Evaluation
Authors : Sonja Milovanovic, Jovana Stojanovic, Ljupcho Efremov, Rosarita Amore, Stefania Boccia Introduction Along with the proliferation of Open Access (OA) p...
A longitudinal study of independent scholar-published open access journals
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk, Cenyu Shen, Mikael Laakso Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly ...