The move to open: medical library leadership in scholarly communication
Author : Chris Shaffer Over the years, health sciences librarians have been change agents, leading the charge on issues of importance to the profession and the ...
Étiquette : open access
An intersectional approach to analyse gender productivity and open access: a bibliometric analysis of the Italian National Research Council
Authors : Roberta Ruggieri, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Daniela Luzi Gender equality and Open Access (OA) are priorities within the European Research Area and cross-cutt...
‘Communists of Knowledge’? A case for the implementation of ‘radical open access’ in the humanities and social sciences
Author : Eleanor Masterman Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced he...
Waiving article processing charges for least developed countries: a keystone of a large-scale open access transformation
Authors : Niels Taubert, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, Graham Stone This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house...
Open access to health and education research outside academia: perspectives of research users, research intermediaries and researchers
Author : Emily Nunn The thesis investigates how publics outside academia engage with ideas of open access (OA) to research publications. To do this, it analyses...
Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia
Authors : Balázs Bodó, Dániel Antal, Zoltán Puha Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authori...
Open Bioeconomy—A Bibliometric Study on the Accessibility of Articles in the Field of Bioeconomy
Authors : Marianne Duquenne, Hélène Pros, Joachim Schöpfel, Franck Dumeignil Open access (OA) to scientific information is one of the major challenges and objec...