Open access, data capitalism and academic publishing
Author : Michael Hagner Open Access (OA) is widely considered a breakthrough in the history of academic publishing, rendering the knowledge produced by the worl...
Étiquette : open access
Impact of Institutional Repositories’ on Scholarly Practices of Scientists
Authors : Prachi Shukla, Naved Ahmad Institutional Repositories (IRs) are established mainly to provide access to information resources which are otherwise not ...
Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017
Author : Bo-Christer Björk Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. They are open access (OA) and funded by ch...
Developing indicators on Open Access by combining evidence from diverse data sources
Authors : Thed van Leeuwen, Ingeborg Meijer, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Rodrigo Costas In the last couple of years, the role of Open Access (OA) publishing has beco...
Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...
Harvesting the Academic Landscape: Streamlining the Ingestion of Professional Scholarship Metadata into the Institutional Repository
Authors : Jonathan Bull, Teresa Auch Schultz INTRODUCTION Although librarians initially hoped institutional repositories (IRs) would grow through researcher sel...
Opening Academic Publishing – Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria
Authors : Anna Björk, Juho-Matti Paavola, Teemu Ropponen, Mikael Laakso, Leo Lahti This report summarizes the development of a standardized scorecard for evalua...