We can shift academic culture through publishing choices
Author : Corina J Logan Researchers give papers for free (and often actually pay) to exploitative publishers who make millions off of our articles by locking th...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The prehistory of biology preprints: a forgotten experiment from the 1960s
Author : Matthew Cobb In 1961, the NIH began to circulate biological preprints in a forgotten experiment called the Information Exchange Groups (IEGs). This sys...
Future Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Publishing
Author : Kyle Siler Digitization and the rise of Open Access publishing is an important recent development in academic communication. The current publishing sys...
Research Management: Combining Platforms, Practices, and Policies
Author : Shawn Martin Research management is about more than open access and it is about more than creating online publishing platforms. It is about creating on...
Small Public Libraries as Publishers
Author : Dijana Sabolović-Krajina The aim of this paper is to stress the importance of small public libraries as publishers. The case study will be the library ...
Publication Services at the University Library Graz: A New Venture, a New Role
Authors : Clara Ginther, Karin Lackner, Christian Kaier Establishing Publication Services in the library at the University of Graz did more than broaden the ser...
Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and use of citations in the English Wikipedia
Authors : Lauren A. Maggio, John M. Willinsky, Ryan M. Steinberg, Daniel Mietchen, Joseph L. Wass, Ting Dong Wikipedia is a gateway to knowledge. However, the e...