Motivation Finding relevant scientific literature is one of the essential tasks researchers are facing on a daily basis. Digital libraries and web information r...
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
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 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...
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...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship ...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Open Access and accessibility, to argue that accessibility is the most crucial feature, a...