Transforming Research into an Illustrated Abstract
The development of the global open access movement has seen a sharp rise in the number of journal articles made freely available either through institutional repositories (green OA) or directly from...
View ArticleSci-Hub: The Librarian’s Response
Librarians often manifest as the unwanted spectre at the ‘open’ access to literature feast; urging restraint whilst others access research papers via Sci-Hub. Discussions on Twitter (the most recent...
View ArticleWhy Open Access Will Boost Publisher Profits
For decades, the cost of subscription journals has been rising faster than inflation. Struggling with this serials crisis, librarians have encouraged the development of open access journals. Under...
View ArticleFree Essay Collection Examines State of Open Data
Open wide … Open data began as an idea. Since then, it has exploded into a movement, a label, a business model, an element of social change, a piece in the puzzle towards the ever-ardent project to...
View ArticleThe Foundational Myths of Open Access Still Shape How We View It
When scholars, publishers and policy makers talk about “open access,” they typically draw from a specific set of shared references. These include the defining Budapest (2001) Bethesda (2003), and...
View ArticleWebinar Examines Open Access and Author Rights
The next in SAGE Publishing’s How to Get Published webinar series honors International Open Access Week (October 24-30). The free webinar is set for October 19 at 4 p.m. BT/11 a.m. ET/8 a.m. PT. This...
View ArticleDoes Open Access Result In More Policy Citations?
The poster Overton used to describe its findings. Overton — the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers — recently presented a...
View ArticleHas Digital Open Access Made Book Chapters Comparable to Academic Journals?
In 2013, chapters in books accounted for more than one in eight citations in five disciplines. (Photo: SCY/Pixabay) Ten years ago, the distinguished Oxford psychologist Dorothy Bishop looked carefully...
View ArticleIs Wikipedia A Good Academic Resource?
(Photo: Fawaz Tairou/CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikimedia Commons) What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic, followed by another topic and...
View ArticleTipster’s Note Offers View of Academic Publishing’s Achilles Heel
On paper, data scientist Gunasekaran Manogaran has had a stellar scientific career. He earned an award as a young researcher from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and landed a series of...
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