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...
Étiquette : scientific practices
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...
Knowledge Sharing Behaviour of Academics in The Polytechnic Ibadan
The study was designed to investigate the factors driving the academics to engage in work-related knowledge sharing activity using a conceptual model adapted fr...
A Case Study of Scholars’ Open and Sharing Practices
Although the open scholarship movement has successfully captured the attention and interest of higher education stakeholders, researchers currently lack an unde...
Accelerating Scientific Publication in Biology
« Scientific publications enable results and ideas to be transmitted throughout the scientific community. The number and type of journal publications also have ...
In abundance: Networked participatory practices as scholarship
« In an era of knowledge abundance, scholars have the capacity to distribute and share ideas and artifacts via digital networks, yet networked scholarship often...
Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles
« Although a large body of literature has suggested that doctoral supervisors play an important role in their students’ attempts at scholarly publishing, few st...