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A Proposed Solution to the Scholarly Communication Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
After reviewing the history and parameters of the scholarly communications crisis, particularly in regard to skyrocketing prices for journals in the natural sciences, the author reviews and rejects previously attempted solutions.
Schatzle, Chad J.
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Humanities: The Outlier of Research Assessments

open access: yesInformation, 2020
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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Open Textbooks at Oregon State University: A Case Study of New Opportunities for Academic Libraries and University Presses

open access: yesJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2014
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

open access: yesStudies in Communication, Media, 2020
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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Are Journals That Charge a Fee a Challenge to Upgrade?

open access: yesTrends in Scholarly Publishing, 2023
According to 2021 data, there are 120 medical faculties in Turkey. The necessity of associate professors and professors in these faculties for medical education is an undeniable fact. However, since medical faculties do not have sufficient teaching staff,
Mehmet Yildirim
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Hip-Hop Librarianship for Scholarly Communication: An Approach to Introducing Topic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Hip-Hop music, business, distribution, and culture exhibit highly comparable trends in the scholarly communication and publication industry. This presentation discusses Hip-Hop artists and research authors as content creators, each operating within ...
Boston, Arthur J.
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Open Access Status of Nano ELSI Research: Determining Availability of a Core Collection of Research for a Disciplinary Repository

open access: yesJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2015
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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New iniciatives in biomedical scholarly communication: removing barriers, enhancing progress [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Objective: To review scholarly communication and publication as they have developed in the biomedical academic and research communities; identify changes and new models being explored and implemented; and explore current challenges and new opportunities.
Liesegang, Thomas J., Sieving, Pamela C.
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The varieties of OA resistance: a response to Gareth J Johnson

open access: yesInsights: The UKSG Journal, 2018
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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E-preprint and Scholarly Communication [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Library and Information Studies, 2003
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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