Doctoral candidates may request short-term embargoes on the release of their dissertations in order to apply for patents. This study examines how often inventio...
The present study means to establish to what extent high-quality open access journals are available as an outlet for publication, by examining their distributio...
The library and information science (LIS) community has an active role in supporting access to information and, therefore, is an important stakeholder in the op...
Open access journals which charge article processing charges (APCs) sometimes offer fee waivers to authors who cannot afford to pay them. This article measures ...
Many published research results are false (Ioannidis, 2005), and controversy continues over the roles of replication and publication policy in improving the rel...
The research community needs reliable, standard ways to make the data produced by scientific research available to the community, while getting credit as data ...
The process of producing and distributing scientific knowledge has been undergoing significant changes recently, termed collectively as “opening” of science. Th...