Arza, Valeria, and Mariano Fressoli. "Benefits of Open Science: An Analytical...
Doing open science is to collaborate with others in a scientific endeavor and to share the outcomes of the scientific process. However, there are many dimensions of openness. Thus when analyzing...
View ArticleRebouillat, Violaine. "Inventory of Research Data Management Services in...
Data has become more and more ubiquitous in the research context. As a result, a growing number of services are created to analyze, store and share research data. This has induced the Research Data...
View ArticleGurinovich, Roman, Alexander Pashuk, Yuriy Petrovskiy, Alex Dmitrievskij,...
The number of published findings in biomedicine increases continually. At the same time, specifics of the domain's terminology complicates the task of relevant publications retrieval. In the current...
View ArticleGanguly, Raman, Paolo Budroni, and Barbara Sánchez Solís. "Living Digital...
This paper will address issues concerning the handling of complex data such as research data, multimedia content, e-learning content, and the use of repositories infrastructures. At the University of...
View ArticleLoizides, Fernando, Barrou Diallo, Andrew Pollard, and Aekaterini Mavri....
In this work we present findings on non-patent literature use, and specifically scientific publications such as academic articles. We interview patent examiners and observe their prior art searching in...
View ArticleOlsbo, Pekka. "Measurement of Open Access as an Infrastructural Challenge:...
Finland has set numeric goals for the development of open access. However, at the moment, no system is available by which this development could be monitored. Poor quality in the metadata records in...
View ArticleMcNaughton, Maurice, and Lila Rao. "Governing Knowledge Commons: Applications...
This paper is based on research conducted as an initiative under the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network (OCSDNet) to explore new innovative mechanisms that can enhance collaborative...
View ArticleFerpozzi, Hugo. "What Is at Stake? Public Participation and the Co-Production...
Openness has become an explicit subject across science policy and scholarly practice, where it is often vindicated in a rhetoric of optimism. In political discourse, as much as in the scholarly...
View ArticleNtini-Kounoudes, Alexia, and Marios Zervas. "The Transformation of the Ktisis...
Institutional repositories have played a major role in universities worldwide during the last decade. Such systems are developed with the aim to collect and disseminate the research activities of...
View ArticleAmmon, Matthias, and Danny Kingsley. "Developing an Academic Publishing...
This paper describes the establishment of a continuum of publishing and preservation services for the academic community at the University of Cambridge, particularly in relation to grey literature. It...
View ArticleFreire, Nuno, Hugo Manguinhas, Antoine Isaac, Glen Robson, and John Brooks...
In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources are made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings...
View ArticleAngelaki, Marina, Dimitris Efstathiou, and Irakleitos Souyioultzoglou. "EKT...
The poster presents EKT's ePublishing platform, an innovative service to support open access publishing in Greece, which enables the research community of the country to transition from a print-only...
View ArticleAlbornoz, Denisse, Alejandro Posada, Angela Okune, Rebecca Hillyer, and...
The OCSDNet Manifesto is a result of one year of participatory consultations and debates amongst members of the ‘Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network’ (OCSDNet), a network of 12...
View ArticleSchmidt, Birgit, and Edit Görögh. "New Toolkits on the Block: Peer Review...
Peer review continues to play a central role in scholarly communication processes, however, over the last decade the concept has branched out in terms of methods, platforms and stakeholders involved....
View ArticleZervas, Marios, and Maria Haraki. "The Challenge of Creating the Cyprus...
This paper describes the development of the Cyprus Academic Libraries Consortium (CALC) and the process of formulating its own agreements with Publishers, but not before explaining how the Public...
View ArticleDiouf, Dieyi. "The University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar (UCAD) Science Shop...
Traditionally, universities in the North as well as in the Global South concentrated their activities on two main missions: Teaching and Research. A “third mission” of universities called “service to...
View ArticleMayeur, Ingrid. "Imparting Knowledge in Humanities. About Some Practices of...
My contribution aims to explain how a platform of electronic publishing such as OpenEdition might reach a larger public outside the academic sphere, and contribute to the revealing of research in the...
View ArticleLawrence, Amanda. "Grey Literature Publishing in Public Policy: Production...
Public policy and practice, and policy research, relies on diverse forms and types of information and communication, both traditional publications and a myriad of other documents and resources...
View ArticleMorrison, Heather. Global OA APCs (APC) 2010-2017: Major Trends In Connecting...
The open access (OA) article processing charges (APC) project is a longitudinal study of the minority of fully OA journals (27% in 2016) that have APCs. The global average APC shows little change; in...
View ArticleAngelova, Milena, Vishnu Devagiri, Veselka Boeva, Peter Linde, and Niklas...
Finding experts in academics is an important practical problem, e.g. recruiting reviewers for reviewing conference, journal or project submissions, partner matching for research proposals, finding...
View ArticleAlperin, Juan, John Willinsky, Brian Owen, James Macgregor, Alec Smecher, and...
As the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) enters its third decade, it faces the responsibilities of supporting the more than 10,000 journals using its software and are dependent on PKP continuing to...
View ArticlePokorny, Jan. "Automatic Subject Indexing and Classification Using Text...
This paper will describe a method for machine-based creation of high quality subject indexing and classification for both electronic and print documents using tables of contents (ToCs). The technology...
View ArticleFreire, Nuno, Pável Calado, and Bruno Martins. "Availability of Cultural...
In the World Wide Web, a very large number of resources is made available through digital libraries. The existence of many individual digital libraries, maintained by different organizations, brings...
View ArticleWells, Matthew. "Game not Over: End-User Programming and Game System Modding...
In certain digital gaming subcultures, specific games are extended and enhanced by players who create “mods”, or modifications, that add new artwork, new scenarios, and even new rules. “Modders” meet...
View ArticleSmith, Ina, and Susan Veldsman. "Data Driving Sustainability—the African Open...
Exploitation of the digital revolution offers great potential for less affluent and least economically developed countries (LEDCs) and for the attainment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals....
View ArticleHeinemann, Elisabeth. "The Value of Network Sustainability: Why We Join...
This paper develops the concept of network sustainability. To become and stay sustainable, distributed research infrastructures must satisfy present needs while at the same time be flexible and...
View ArticleAlbornoz, Denisse, Maggie Huang, Issra Martin, Maria Mateus, Aicha Touré, and...
Given that “Open Science” is becoming a popular policy object around the world, this study sought to identify key narratives about Open Science in policy, and critically examine the extent to which...
View ArticleParinov, Sergey, and Victoria Antonova. "Global Scholarly Collaboration: from...
The development of recent research information systems allows a transformation of citations in the full text of research papers into interactive elements. Such interactivity in some cases works as an...
View ArticleTogia, Aspasia, Eleftheria Koseoglou, Sofia Zapounidou, and Nikolaos...
Open access (OA) is a global movement to make research results widely available by removing price and permission barriers. OA infrastructure is necessary for implementing open access and open science...
View ArticleBecerril-García, Arianna, and Eduardo Aguado-López. "The End of a Centralized...
The Latin American region has an ecosystem where the nature of publication is conceived as the act of making public, of sharing and not as the publishing industry. International, national and...
View ArticlePosada, Alejandro, and George Chen. "Inequality in Knowledge Production: The...
This paper attempts to illustrate the implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers’ business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly...
View ArticleOkune, Angela, Rebecca Hillyer, Denisse Albornoz, Alejandro Posada, and...
The current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs. There is an...
View ArticleAppel, Andre, Ivonne Lujano, and Sarita Albagli. "Open Science Practices...
The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science (OS) values and practices have influenced open access (OA) journals publishers in Latin American and the Caribbean (LA&C) countries....
View ArticleOlyhoek, Tom, Barbara Porrett, and Dominic Mitchell. "The DOAJ Ambassador...
Global scientific publishing, including open access publishing, is heavily biased towards journals and authors from the Global North. This has resulted in a knowledge gap between the South and the...
View ArticlePennefather, Peter, West Suhanic, Fatima Lakha, and Deborah Fels. "Publishing...
An inclusive systemic design is specified for publishing data derived from personal private health records, owned and curated by patients. The design is specified with an example of a digital scrapbook...
View ArticleHole, Brian, Francesco De Virgilio, and Chealsye Bowley. "Shared...
This paper presents an introduction and status report on work being done to provide shared infrastructure for open access book publishers under the HIRMEOS (High Integration of Research Monographs in...
View ArticleGeltner, Guy, and John Willinsky. "ScholarlyHub: A Progress Report at Six...
ScholarlyHub (SH) was launched in November 2017 as a portal to fund and create a social network for scholarship-using individuals and communities that is supported and directed from the bottom up and...
View ArticleMaistrovskaya, Mariya, and Judy Hum-Delaney. "Simplifying OA Policy...
In April of 2015, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) in partnership with the University of Toronto Libraries launched an automated manuscript deposit service. Upon author’s opt-in, an automated workflow...
View ArticleNordhoff, Sebastian, and Felix Kopecky. "Full Disclosure: Open Business Data...
This short paper presents the three main outcomes of the OpenAire project “Full disclosure: replicable strategies for book publications supplemented with empirical data”: a fully specified bu-siness...
View ArticleRittman, Martyn. "Sustainability in Publishing: An Open Access Publisher’s...
Sustainability is an essential part of the work of publishers. Here, the view of an open access publisher, MDPI, is presented with regards to sustainability within publishing. MDPI’s understanding of...
View ArticleBouche, Thierry, Evelyne Miot, and Célia Vaudaine. "The Launch of Centre...
The aim of this paper is to present the Centre Mersenne for Open Scientific Publishing, a new open access scien-tific publishing infrastructure for publications written in LaTeX.The Centre Mersenne was...
View ArticleArias, Javier. "Collecting Inclusive Usage Metrics for Open Access...
Open Access has matured for journals, but its uptake in the book market is still delayed, despite the fact that books continue to be the leading publishing format for social sciences and humanities....
View ArticleFargier, Nathalie. "In Search of a Sustainable Model for Digital Heritage...
A wide range of initiatives for developing research and data infrastructures have been funded in recent years. There is a growing concern amongst the academic community to maintain the resources...
View ArticleRivera-López, Bárbara, and Manuel Luci. "Spatial Reference Patterns as a...
Anglophone hegemony in knowledge production processes has been long acknowledged. Academic capitalism (Slaughter and Leslie, 2004) and its neoliberal rationalities, the dominant narratives within the...
View ArticleCorrea, Andreiwid. "A Collaborative Approach to Support Document Structuring...
The online availability of public data using unstructured documents and non-open file formats is still found in ma-ny government agencies what hampers so-ciety to consume data, as unlocking da-ta from...
View ArticleNordhoff, Sebastian, and Andreas Pittrich. "DocLoop-OER: Channelling Reader...
docLoop-OER is a web platform where readers can give feedback on stretches of a (text)book. This feedback is channelled into an issue tracker.
View ArticleFranck, Gwen. "OpenAIRE FP7 Post-Grant Pilot: A Summary of the Main Results."...
This short article aims at presenting the main outcomes of the OpenAIRE FP7 post-grant pilot, an initiative from the European Commission to cover publication costs after the end of the projects.
View ArticleGoudarzi, Saman, and Tasneem Mewa. "Mapping Academic Publishing: Locating...
With the intention of highlighting en-claves [in this context, the term en-clave simply refers to exclusive con-centrations of academic development knowledge; ultimately leading to narrow frames for...
View ArticleConnecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable...
ELPUB 2018 marks the 22nd edition of the International Conference in ELectronic PUBlishing and the 10th anniversary of the meeting being held in Toronto. ELPUB has featured research results in various...
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