Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
Étiquette : scientific practices
Data Sharing Among Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources Scientists: An Analysis of Selected Publications
INTRODUCTION Understanding the differing data management practices among academic disciplines is an important way to inform existing and emerging library resear...
Approaches to Data Sharing: An Analysis of NSF Data Management Plans from a Large Research University
INTRODUCTION Sharing digital research data is increasingly common, propelled by funding requirements, journal publishers, local campus policies, or community-dr...
Data Management Practices Across an Institution: Survey and Report
INTRODUCTION Data management is becoming increasingly important to researchers in all fields. The E-Science Working Group designed a survey to investigate how r...
Changes in Data Sharing and Data Reuse Practices and Perceptions among Scientists Worldwide
The incorporation of data sharing into the research lifecycle is an important part of modern scholarly debate. In this study, the DataONE Usability and Assessme...
The role of trust and authority in the citation behaviour of researchers
Introduction This paper reports on an interview-based citation behaviour study, part of a wider study of trust in information resources, investigating why resea...
Level of Awareness of Open Access Electronic Resources by Scientists in Agricultural Research Institutes in Edo State, Nigeria
Purpose This study was conducted to determine the level of awareness of open access electronic resources (OAER) by scientists in agricultural research institute...