This study assesses the extent and nature of open access scholarly publishing in Brazil, one of the world’s leaders in providing universal access to its researc...
Our current societies increasingly rely on electronic repositories of collective knowledge. An archetype of these databases is the Web of Science (WoS) that sto...
Open Access to scholarly literature seems to dominate current discussions in the academic publishing, research funding and science policy arenas. Several intern...
Scholarly communication is complex. The clarification of concepts like “academic publication”, “document”, “semantics” and “ontology” facilitates tracking the l...
Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorat...
Academic publishers claim that they add value to scholarly communications by coordinating reviews and contributing and enhancing text during publication. These ...
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds o...