Openness in Scholarship: A Return to Core Values?
Author : Cameron Neylon The debate over the meaning, and value, of open movements has intensified. The fear of co-option of various efforts from Open Access to ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Assessing the utility of an institutional publications officer: a pilot assessment
Authors : Kelly D. Cobey, James Galipeau, Larissa Shamseer, David Moher Background The scholarly publication landscape is changing rapidly. We investigated whet...
On the « persistency » of scientific publications: introducing an h-index for journals
Author : Roberto Piazza What do we really mean by a « good » scientific journal? Do we care more about the short-time impact of our papers, or about the chance ...
L’édition scientifique au prisme des enjeux territoriaux
Auteur/Author : Édith Laviec Cette communication s’intéresse au positionnement des régions sur les plans scientifique et du développement des technologies du nu...
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Authors : Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, Bård Smedsrød Peer reviewing is mandatory for scientific journals as quality control of submitted manuscrip...
Is there agreement on the prestige of scholarly book publishers in the Humanities? DELPHI over survey results
Authors : Elea Giménez-Toledo, Jorge Mañana-Rodríguez Despite having an important role supporting assessment processes, criticism towards evaluation systems and...
TrueReview: A Platform for Post-Publication Peer Review
Authors : Luca de Alfaro, Marco Faella In post-publication peer review, scientific contributions are first published in open-access forums, such as arXiv or oth...