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...
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...
Authors : Jean-Christophe Plantin, Carl Lagoze, Paul N. Edwards, Christian Sandvig “Big data” discussions typically focus on scale, i.e. the problems and potent...
Authors : David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose...
Authors : Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly com...
Author: Christine Fruin INTRODUCTION The U.K. library community has implemented collaborative strategies in key scholarly communication areas such as open acces...
Authors : Afshin Sadeghi, Johannes Wilm, Philipp Mayr, Christoph Lange The objective of the OSCOSS research project on “Opening Scholarly Communication in...