Leading by Example? ALA Division Publications, Open Access, and Sustainability
This investigation explores scholarly communication business models in American Library Association (ALA) division peer-reviewed academic journals. Previous stu...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
University-based open access publishing
This report, prepared for SPARC Europe, sketches the landscape of university-‐based not-‐for-‐ profit publishing in Europe with a primary focus on open acces...
Semantic representation of scientific literature: bringing claims, contributions and named entities onto the Linked Open Data cloud
Motivation Finding relevant scientific literature is one of the essential tasks researchers are facing on a daily basis. Digital libraries and web information r...
Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
The cost of reading research. A study of Computer Science publication venues
What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing, specifically...
The implications of the new UK Open Access policies on the ownership of copyright in academic publishing
The issue of who owns the copyright in works produced by academics during employment is not new. The practice is that academics, as authors – copyright cr...
Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publis...