Clearing the garden: ScholarlyHub as a new non-profit digital commons
Authors : April Hathcock, Guy Geltner Open scholarly communications are being suffocated by for-profit and large-scale academic publishers on the one hand and u...
Étiquette : Scholarly Communication
Health 2.0: The Scholarly Communication Practices of Medical Sciences and Health Sciences Users on Academia.edu
Author : Lydia Thorne Many academics are active users of social media and some even use these sites for professional networking. However, while scholars can use...
Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
Big data is not about size: when data transform scholarship
Authors : Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards, Christian Sandvig “Big data” discussions typically focus on scale, i.e. the problems and potent...
Metrics for openness
Authors : David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose...
Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication
Authors : Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly com...
Organization and Delivery of Scholarly Communications Services by Academic and Research Libraries in the United Kingdom: Observations from Across the Pond
Author: Christine Fruin INTRODUCTION The U.K. library community has implemented collaborative strategies in key scholarly communication areas such as open acces...