Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?
This article uses Alan B. Krueger’s analysis of the music industry in his book Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life as a lens to consider the structure of scholarly publishing and what could ...
David W. Lewis
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Wikis in scholarly publishing [PDF]
Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain ...
Claudia Koltzenburg +6 more
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Publishing solutions for contemporary scholars: The library as innovator and partner [PDF]
Purpose: To review the trend in academic libraries toward including scholarly communication, and by extension, electronic publishing, as part of their core mission, using the Cornell University Library as an example.
Thomas, Sarah E.
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The Accessibility Quotient: A New Measure of Open Access
INTRODUCTION The Accessibility Quotient (AQ), a new measure for assisting authors and librarians in assessing and characterizing the degree of accessibility for a group of papers, is proposed and described.
Deborah Barreau, Ellen Finnie Duranceau
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The means of (re-)production: expertise, open tools, standards and communication [PDF]
This article examines the current difficulties faced in penetrating the world of scholarly communication technology. While there have been large strides forward in the disintermediation of digital publishing expertise – most notably by the Public ...
Eve, Martin Paul
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The University as Publisher: Summary of a Meeting Held at UC Berkeley on November 1, 2007 [PDF]
With the advent of electronic publishing, the scholarly communication landscape at universities has become increasingly diverse. Multiple stakeholders including university presses, libraries, and central IT departments are challenged by the increasing ...
Diane Harley
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Topics of major current interest in scholarly editing and publishing based on the content analysis of selected journals [PDF]
For the purpose of obtaining a concrete picture of the main issues related to modern scholarly editing and publishing, a content analysis of the recent issues of three international journals devoted to scholarly editing and publishing, which are Learned ...
Yeonok Chung
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Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations
We analyzed how often and in what ways the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is currently used in review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) documents of a representative sample of universities from the United States and Canada. 40% of research-intensive institutions
Erin C McKiernan +5 more
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Artificial intelligence-assisted tools for redefining the communication landscape of the scholarly world [PDF]
The flood of research output and increasing demands for peer reviewers have necessitated the intervention of artificial intelligence (AI) in scholarly publishing.
Habeeb Ibrahim Abdul Razack +3 more
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Several Factors of Library Publishing Services Facilitate Scholarly Communication Functions
Objective – To identify and examine the factors of library publishing services that facilitate scholarly communication. Design – Analysis of library publishing service programs. Setting – North American research libraries. Subjects – Eight
Leslie Bussert
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