Resisting the Resistance: Resisting Copyright and Promoting Alternatives
Author : Giancarlo F. Frosio This article discusses the resistance to the Digital Revolution and the emergence of a social movement “resisting the resistance.” ...
Étiquette : open access
Open Access to Scientific Information in Emerging Countries
Author : Joachim Schöpfel Access to information plays a critical role in supporting development. Open access to scientific information is one solution. Up to no...
‘Just Google it’ – the scope of freely available information sources for doctoral thesis writing
Authors : Vincas Grigas, Simona Juzėnienė, Jonė Veličkaitė Introduction Recent developments in the field of scientific information resource provision lead us to...
Distance informationnelle scientifique : le risque d’une altérité informationnelle ?
Auteur/Author : Christian Marcon A partir de l’hypothèse selon laquelle les chercheurs et laboratoires qui ne développent pas une politique de mise en ligne de ...
Reconsidering the gold open access citation advantage postulate in a multidisciplinary context: an analysis of the subject categories in the Web of Science database 2009-2014
Authors : Pablo Dorta-González, Sara M. González-Betancor, María Isabel Dorta-González Since Lawrence in 2001 proposed the open access (OA) citation advantage,...
UK University policy approaches towards the copyright ownership of scholarly works and the future of open access
Author : Elizabeth Gadd Purpose Considers how the open access policy environment has developed since the RoMEO (Rights Metadata for Open Archiving) Project’s ca...
Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review
Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large ...