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Humanities: The Outlier of Research Assessments
Commercial bibliometric databases, and the quantitative indicators presented by them, are widely used for research assessment purposes, which is not fair for the humanities.
Güleda Doğan, Zehra Taşkın
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INTRODUCTION This article describes a joint open textbook publishing initiative begun in 2013 between Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries and Press and the Open Educational Resources and Emerging Technologies unit of Oregon State University’s ...
Deborah Barreau, Shan C Sutton
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Communication floods – Emails in scholarly communication
The aim of this study is to display the current email usage among academics and the email‘s influence on the field of science by analyzing qualitative interviews and media diaries with 55 German-speaking academics.
Corinna Lüthje, Franziska Thiele
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INTRODUCTION The development and maintenance of a disciplinary repository is a high cost, long-term project; therefore, it is important to investigate the feasibility of the proposed resource.
Deborah Barreau, Rebecca Reznik-Zellen
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E-preprint and Scholarly Communication [PDF]
The communication channels and information flow have been significantly changed in the past decades even though the essence of scholarly communication pretty much stays the same.
Wen-Yau Cathy Lin
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Evolving scholarly communication [PDF]
ABSTRACTNature Publishing Group and the Alliance for Cellular Signaling formed a partnership in 2001 to develop a comprehensive website for researchers in the field of cellular signalling. This website aimed to evolve the traditional form of publication (an article with supplementary information and links) into something that made better use of web and
Jayne Marks, Timo Hannay
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The varieties of OA resistance: a response to Gareth J Johnson
In a recent 'Insights 'article, Gareth J Johnson reports on research designed to determine the reasons that so many authors still fail to embrace open access (OA) publishing, despite many years of advocacy on the part of a dedicated community of OA ...
Rick Anderson
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In The Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure, author David Lewis provides a useful and succinct overview of recent literature and trendsetters in digital infrastructure that supports the publishing cycle.
Heather Saunders
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Fake news and alternative facts: five challenges for academic libraries
In light of recent worldwide political developments, it seems clear that libraries are needed more than ever to combat a rising tide of fake news and public lies, and to help their patrons discriminate between truth, error and propaganda.
Rick Anderson
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Open access in Australia: an odyssey of sorts? [PDF]
Scholarly communication change and open access (OA) initiatives in Australia have followed an Odyssean path in the last decade. The stop-start nature of early initiatives demonstrates that institutional leadership is essential for the successful deposit ...
Colin Steele
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