Rettberg, Najla, Birgit Schmidt, and Anthony Ross."Infrastructures for...
Recently launched, OpenAIRE2020 is an Open Access (OA) Infrastructure for Research which supports open scholarly communication and access to the research output of European funded projects. This brief...
View ArticleOlsbo, Pekka."The Roadmap to Finnish Open Science and Research." In New...
Finland published its open science roadmap at the end of November 2014. This roadmap is based on the work of the Open Science and Research Initiative (ATT), a cross-administrative initiative...
View ArticleMarra, Monica."Exploration of Professional Social Networks and Opinions about...
The poster conveys the first results of a survey conducted among astrophysicists working at INAF. Just under 120 respondents made it possible to investigate their behaviour and opinions with regard to...
View ArticleLinde, Peter, Eva Norling, Anette Pettersson, Lena Petersson, Kent...
During March 2015, the Blekinge Institute of Technology library carried out an interview survey comprising around 36 senior researchers and postdocs mainly in engineering sciences, with the objective...
View ArticleHeikkilä, Harri."Social Reading and eBooks." In New Avenues for Electronic...
The success and mainstreaming of e-books is transforming not only the traditional/Gutenbergian idea of the book but also the previous idea of an e-book as mainly an enriched print book. In the new...
View ArticleShearer, Kathleen, Katharina Mueller, and Maxie Gottschling."Reaching Out to...
COAR is working towards greater interoperability of systems in a number of areas, with an emphasis on open access metadata elements and vocabularies. This paper presents the outcomes of the recently...
View ArticleClivaz, Claire, Marion Rivoal, and Martial Sankar."A New Platform for Editing...
The eTalks are a new digital multimedia editing plaform developed at the University of Lausanne: their application is implemented via an easy-to-use editor interface, designed for the use of...
View ArticleVlaeminck, Sven, and Lisa-Kristin Herrmann."Data Policies and Data Archives:...
In our paper we summarise the findings of an empirical study in which a sample of 346 journals in economics and business studies were examined. We regard both the extent and the quality of journals'...
View ArticleSchmidt, Birgit, Birgit Gemeinholzer, and Andrew Treloar."Open Data in Global...
This paper presents selected findings of the Belmont Forum's survey on open data which targeted the global environmental research and data infrastructure community. It highlights users' perceptions of...
View ArticleHoorn, Esther, and Marlon Domingus."Finding the Law for Sharing Data in...
How can universities provide good advice about the legal aspects of research data management? At the same time, how can universities prevent that perceived legal risks become barriers to: conducting...
View ArticleHandke, Christian, Lucie Guibault, and Joan-Josep Vallbé."Is Europe Falling...
With the diffusion of digital information technology, data mining (DM) is widely expected to increase the productivity of all kinds of research activities. Based on bibliometric data, we demonstrate...
View ArticleStojanovski, Jadranka."Journals' Editorial Policies – An Analysis of the...
The growing number of publications presenting research findings, the pressure on scientists to produce publications in great quantity, and the shift in the business models of many journals increased...
View ArticleChumbe, Santiago, Roddy MacLeod, and Brian Kelly."We Should Not Light an Open...
The rapid growth of hybrid journals in the last few years has seen an unfortunate side effect: the majority of Open Access (OA) articles published in those journals cannot be recognized as OA beyond...
View ArticleDimchev, Aleksandar, and Rosen Stefanov."Open Access in Scientific...
The following report aims to examine the current tendencies in the field of Open Access (OA) publishing. Ever since its inception in the 1990s, Open Access has been a topic of interest in regards to...
View ArticleMacIntyre, Ross, Jo Alcock, Paul Needham, and Jo Lambert."Measuring the Usage...
Many educational institutions have repositories for research outputs. The number of items available through institutional repositories is growing, and is expected to continue to do so due to...
View ArticleLoizides, Fernando, George Buchanan, and Keti Mavri."On Key Bespoke Tools to...
Publishing in academic journals and conferences has become faster, and easier with the ability to edit and submit documents electronically. With the increase of publications also come negative effects...
View ArticleNisheva-Pavlova, Maria, Dicho Shukerov, and Pavel Pavlov."Building a Social...
The paper analyzes some current trends of research and development in the field of digital libraries. The presentation is focused on the main features of two new generations of digital libraries – the...
View ArticleTate, Dominic."Open Access and Research Assessment: Dealing with UK Open...
This paper describes research-funder and research assessment policies in the UK and assesses the impact that these policies are having in the transition towards research outputs being made available on...
View ArticleRiphagen, M., M. Rasch, and F. Cramer."From Print to Ebooks: A Hybrid...
This article is an excerpt of the outcome of a two-year research and development project on hybrid publishing. The DPT Collective [1] developed a Toolkit which consists of the publication From Print to...
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