Measuring Scholarly Impact The Influence of “Altmetrics” on…
Measuring Scholarly Impact: The Influence of “Altmetrics” on a Changing Conversation
Étiquette : scientific communication
Open Access, library and publisher competition, and the evolution of general commerce
« Discussions of the economics of scholarly communication are usually devoted to Open Access, rising journal prices, publisher profits, and boycotts. That ignor...
What Do Journals Do? – Voluntary Public Goods and the Doomsday of Commercial Science Publishing
Commercial (and non-commercial) science publishing has evolved as a solution to a number of problems in the market for research results. It has reduced transact...
Managing your assets in the publication economy
« The issue this article aims to address is the fact that publications may nowadays be used to assess impact and quality of research in ways academics may not b...
Pay Big to Publish Fast: Academic Journal Rackets
In the context of open-access (OA) academic publishing, the mounting pressure cross global academe to publish or perish has spawned an exponentially growing num...
When Copyright Law and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale
Automated knowledge discovery tools have become central to the scientific enterprise in a growing number of fields and are widely employed in the humanities as ...
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing Lessons…
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate : « This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspec...