Searching Data: A Review of Observational Data Retrieval Practices
Authors : Kathleen Gregory, Paul Groth, Helena Cousijn, Andrea Scharnhorst, Sally Wyatt A cross-disciplinary examination of the user behaviours involved in seek...
Étiquette : scientific practices
Open Access and Promotion and Tenure Evaluation Plans at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Authors : Stephanie H. Wical, Gregory J. Kocken Department and program evaluation plans at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire were examined to see if these ...
Framing a Situated and Inclusive Open Science: Emerging Lessons from the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network
Authors : Rebecca Hillyer, Alejandro Posada, Denisse Albornoz, Leslie Chan, Angela Okune What is open science and under what conditions could it contribute towa...
Networked Scholarship and Motivations for Social Media use in Scholarly Communication
Authors : Stefania Manca, Maria Ranieri Research on scholars’ use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being used to enhance scholarly com...
Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)
Authors : Joachim Schöpfel, Coline Ferrant, Francis André, Renaud Fabre Purpose The paper presents empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French sc...
A systematic identification and analysis of scientists on Twitter
Authors : Qing Ke, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Metrics derived from Twitter and other social media—often referred to as altmetrics—are increasingly used ...
Why Do Academics Use Academic Social Networking Sites?
Authors : Hagit Meishar-Tal, Efrat Pieterse Academic social-networking sites (ASNS) such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate are becoming very popular among academ...