Hybrid open access—A longitudinal study
Authors : Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within sub...
Étiquette : scientific communication
End of Publication? Open access and a new scholarly communication technology
Authors : Sergey Parinov, Victoria Antonova At this time, developers of research information systems are experimenting with new tools for research outputs usage...
Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement
Author : Balazs Bodo 2016 is the year when piracy finally became an unavoidable topic in the domain of scholarly communications. The public exposure of Sci-Hub,...
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
Authors : David Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their p...
Tracking the Digital Footprints to Scholarly Articles from Social Media
Authors : Xianwen Wang, Zhichao Fang, Xinhui Guo Scholarly articles are discussed and shared on social media, which generates altmetrics. On the opposite side, ...
The Journal Article as a Means to Share Data: a Content Analysis of Supplementary Materials from Two Disciplines
Authors : Jeremy Kenyon, Nancy Sprague, Edward Flathers INTRODUCTION The practice of publishing supplementary materials with journal articles is becoming increa...
Academic Publishing: Making the Implicit Explicit
Authors : Cecile Badenhorst, Xiaolin Xu For doctoral students, publishing in peer-reviewed journals is a task many face with anxiety and trepidation. The world ...