The Number of Scholarly Documents on the Public Web
The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engine...
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Knowledge Management and Electronic Theses and Dissertations in Libraries: Perils and Solutions in Indian Perspective
« ICT is a great facilitator for Knowledge Management. ICT enables creation of digital repositories for sharing knowledge transcending many limitations. Digital...
The NSF/NIH Effect: Surveying the Effect of Data Management Requirements on Faculty, Sponsored Programs, and Institutional Repositories
« The scholarly communication landscape is rapidly changing and nowhere is this more evident than in the field of data management. Mandates by major funding age...
Diamond open access and open peer review: An analysis of the role of copyright and librarians in the support of a shift towards open access in the legal domain
« The aim of this paper is to support initiatives that stimulate volunteer involvement in creating qualitatively good conversations about the law on the interne...
Open-access repositories worldwide, 2005-2012: Past growth, current characteristics and future possibilities
« This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It sho...
A survey of authors publishing in four megajournals
« Aim. To determine the characteristics of megajournal authors, the nature of the manuscripts they are submitting to these journals, factors influencing their d...