Open Data and Open Access Articles: Exploring Connections in the Life Sciences
Author : Sarah C. Williams Objectives This small-scale study explores the current state of connections between open data and open access (OA) articles in the li...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Publication strategies under the Publish or Perish Paradigm – using Kolb’s ELT to understand PhD students’ needs
Authors : Charlotte Nordahl Wien, Bertil F. Dorch, Lone Bredahl, Mette Brandt Eriksen Having a viable publication strategy at an early stage of the career can n...
Unconsented acknowledgments as a form of authorship abuse: What can be done about it?
Author : Mladen Koljatic Unwelcome or unconsented acknowledgments is an unethical practice seldom addressed. It constitutes a form of authorship abuse perpetrat...
Transitioning to Open Access: An Evaluation of the UK Springer Compact Agreement Pilot 2016–2018
Authors : Mafalda Marques, Graham Stone This article analyzes the UK’s first “read and publish” journals agreement. The Springer Compact Agreement pilot ran fro...
Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study
Authors : Christophe Boudry, Manuel Durand-Barthez The purpose of this paper was to assess the presence of researchers on two author identifier services (ORCID ...
Coronavirus mapping in scientific publications: When science advances rapidly and collectively, is access to this knowledge open to society?
Authors : Simone Belli, Rogério Mugnaini, Joan Baltà, Ernest Abadal The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a global health emergency. Mapping this health emergency i...
Open Access Books in the Humanities and Social Sciences: an Open Access Altmetric Advantage
Author : Michael Taylor The last decade has seen two significant phenomena emerge in research communication: the rise of open access (OA) publishing, and eviden...