« Academic authors’ confusion about copyright and publisher policy is often cited as a challenge to their effective sharing of their own published research, from having a chilling effect on selfarchiving in institutional and subject repositories, to leading to the posting of versions of articles on social networking sites in contravention…
« Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ…
« The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funders and research institutions under an open database licence. OpenAPC is part of the INTACT project, which is funded by the German Research Foundation and located at Bielefeld University Library. This article provides…
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Ce numéro spécial s’insère dans une dynamique émergente sur l’analyse de données de la recherche (données numériques produites par les chercheurs, mémoires, articles scientifiques,
actes de colloque, thèses, etc.) et veut faire la promotion de la recherche francophone. Les pratiques de recherche et les usages des chercheurs…
« Run and managed by the Institute for Reproducible Research (IRR), a U.S. Non-Profit organization, ShortScience.org, is a platform for post-publication discussion of research papers. (…) »
« Les bibliothécaires de l’Université de Vienne, en Autriche, ont publié une analyse fort intéressante des différents contrats qu’ils ont négociés avec les éditeurs contenant une dimension « open access » ; plus précisément, ils se sont attachés à décrire les différents workflows à l’oeuvre pour couvrir le cycle complet…
« Une modification du droit d’auteur belge permet désormais aux auteurs d’articles scientifiques financés par le secteur public de conserver le droit de rendre leur article disponible en libre accès, même s’il en est autrement stipulé dans leur contrat avec l’éditeur. (…) »
« We aimed to assess which factors correlate with collaborative behavior and whether such behavior associates with scientific impact (citations and becoming a principal investigator). We used the R index which is defined for each author as log(Np)/log(I1), where I1 is the number of co-authors who appear in at least I1…
« The study investigates Library and Information Science (LIS) journals that published research articles between 2003 and 2013, which were about open access (OA) and were indexed in LIS databases. The purpose was to investigate the journals’ OA policies, ascertain the degree to which these policies facilitate OA to publications, and…
« Attached as they are to an editorial model of the printed world, journals fear that the open access process that has emerged with the Internet will mean their end. Why does this happen in view of the fact that one might think that an institution that finances a scientific journal…
