Anticipated effects of an open access policy at a private foundation
Author : Eesha Khare, Carly Strasser The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) was interested in understanding the potential effects of a policy requiring op...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Metrics for openness
Authors : David M. Nichols, Michael B. Twidale The characterization of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose...
What Constitutes Peer Review of Data: A survey of published peer review guidelines
Author : Todd A Carpenter Since a number of journals specifically focus on the review and publication of data sets, reviewing their policies seems an appropriat...
Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication
Authors : Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly com...
Looking Into Pandora’s Box: The Content Of Sci-Hub And Its Usage
Author : Bastian Greshake Despite the growth of Open Access, illegally circumventing paywalls to access scholarly publications is becoming a more mainstream phe...
Transitioning from a Conventional to a ‘Mega’ Journal: A Bibliometric Case Study of the Journal Medicine
Authors : Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry , Stephen Pinfield, Valerie Spezi Open-Access Mega-Journals (OAMJs) are a relatively new and ...
Evaluating and Promoting Open Data Practices in Open Access Journals
Authors : Eleni Castro, Mercè Crosas, Alex Garnett, Kasey Sheridan, Micah Altman In the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in attention from the sch...