Getting the Word Out Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
« In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment to b...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles
« Although a large body of literature has suggested that doctoral supervisors play an important role in their students’ attempts at scholarly publishing, few st...
Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing
Author : Guillaume Cabanac Research articles disseminate the knowledge produced by the scientific community. Access to this literature is crucial for researcher...
Better Sharing Through Licenses? Measuring the Influence of Creative Commons Licenses on the Usage of Open Access Monographs
« Introduction : Open Access and licenses are closely intertwined. Both Creative Commons (CC) and Open Access seek to restore the balance between the owners of...
Peer review: still king in the digital age
« The article presents one of the main findings of an international study of 4,000 academic researchers that examined how trustworthiness is determined in the d...
The “total cost of publication” in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions
« As open-access (OA) publishing funded by article-processing charges (APCs) becomes more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the “total ...
Knowledge Unlatched: A Global Library Consortium Model for Funding Open Access Scholarly Books
« This special issue of Cultural Science Journal is devoted to the report of a groundbreaking experiment in re-coordinating global markets for specialist schola...