Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement
Author : Balazs Bodo 2016 is the year when piracy finally became an unavoidable topic in the domain of scholarly communications. The public exposure of Sci-Hub,...
Étiquette : Scholarly Communication
The Circulation of Scientific Articles in the Sphere of Web-Based Media: Citation Practices, Communities of Interests and Local Ties
Authors : Muriel Lefebvre, Julie Renard On 5th December 2012, a scientific article reviewing a change in the feeding behaviour of the European catfish, one of t...
Scholarly Communication and the Dilemma of Collective Action : Why Academic Journals Cost Too Much
Author : John Wenzler Why has the rise of the Internet – which drastically reduces the cost of distributing information – coincided with drastic inc...
Tackling complexity in an interdisciplinary scholarly network: Requirements for semantic publishing
Scholarly communication is complex. The clarification of concepts like “academic publication”, “document”, “semantics” and “ontology” facilitates tracking the l...
Innovations in scholarly communication – global survey on research tool usage
Many new websites and online tools have come into existence to support scholarly communication in all phases of the research workflow. To what extent researcher...
On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We f...
Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. Whi...