A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing
“Academic data sharing is a way for researchers to collaborate and thereby meet the needs of an increasingly complex research landscape. It enables resear...
Étiquette : scientific practices
How scholars implement trust in their reading, citing and publishing activities: Geographical differences
“In an increasingly digital environment, many factors influence how academic researchers decide what to read, what to cite, where to publish their work, a...
Incentives and motivations for sharing research data: researcher’s perspectives
“This study, commissioned by Knowledge Exchange, has gathered evidence, examples and opinions on current and future incentives for research data sharing f...
An Efficiency Comparison of Document Preparation Systems Used in Academic Research and Development
The choice of an efficient document preparation system is an important decision for any academic researcher. To assist the research community, we report a softw...
Patterns of Text Reuse in a Scientific Corpus
“We consider the incidence of text “reuse” by researchers, via a systematic pairwise comparison of the text content of all articles deposited ...
A Survey of Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics Faculty Regarding Author Fees in Open Access Journals
“Discussions of the potential of open access publishing frequently must contend with the skepticism of research authors regarding the need to pay author f...
The Scholarly Communications Needs of Faculty: An Evidence-Based Foundation for the Development of Library Services
“Objectives – This exploratory research seeks to broadly understand the publishing behaviours and attitudes of faculty, across all disciplines, at the Uni...