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...
Étiquette : open access
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 ...
Measuring, Rating, Supporting, and Strengthening Open Access Scholarly Publishing in Brazil
This study assesses the extent and nature of open access scholarly publishing in Brazil, one of the world’s leaders in providing universal access to its researc...
Open Access – the better access? Academic publishing and its politics
Open Access to scholarly literature seems to dominate current discussions in the academic publishing, research funding and science policy arenas. Several intern...