Joining Networks in the World of Open Science
Author : Riitta Maijala Whereas the first digital revolution of science by digitisation changed the scientific practices of data collection, analysis and report...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Access, ethics, and piracy
Author : Stuart Lawson Open access has been progressively making more scholarship openly available. But a majority of journal articles are still behind paywalls...
Use of the Paid Open Access Option in Hybrid Open Access Journals in Agriculture: A Mixed-Methods Study
Authors : Megan Kocher, Julie Kelly We explore the use and usefulness of the hybrid open access publishing model in agricultural sciences using a combination of...
Scholarly Management Publication and Open Access Funding Mandates: a Review of Publisher Policies
Author : Jessica Lange The open access movement has been growing steadily over the past twenty years. Recently, many national funding agencies in North America ...
Altmetrics: The Emerging Alternative Metrics for Web Research Analysis
Authors : Ashok Kumar, J Shivarama, Mallikarjun Angadi, Puttaraj A Choukimath The use of web 2.0 is becoming the essential part of present day life. People are ...
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
Authors : Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valérie Spezi In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometri...
Reproducible and reusable research: Are journal data sharing policies meeting the mark?
Author : Nicole A Vasilevsky, Jessica Minnier, Melissa A Haendel, Robin E Champieux Background There is wide agreement in the biomedical research community that...