On the Shoulders of Giants: The Growing Impact of Older Articles
« In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of older scholarly articles. We attempt to answer four questions. First, how often are older articles ci...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The Scholarly Communications Needs of Faculty: An Evidence-Based Foundation for the Development of Library Services
« Objectives – This exploratory research seeks to broadly understand the publishing behaviours and attitudes of faculty, across all disciplines, at the Universi...
“The sum of all human knowledge”: A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia
« Wikipedia might possibly be the best-developed attempt thus far of the enduring quest to gather all human knowledge in one place. Its accomplishments in this ...
Open Access: pour une meilleure visibilité de la production scientifique médicale au Maroc
« Les bases de données internationales de l’Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) sont des outils incontournables mais incomplets pour évaluer la performan...
Publishing without Publishers: a Decentralized Approach to Dissemination, Retrieval, and Archiving of Data
« Making available and archiving scientific results is for the most part still considered the task of classical publishing companies, despite the fact that clas...
The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions
« As open-access (OA) publishing funded by article-processing charges (APCs) becomes more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the ‘total ...
Exposing the predators. Methods to stop predatory journals
« The internet is greatly improving the impact of scholarly journals, but also poses new threats to their quality. Publishers have arisen that abuse the Gold Op...