Scholarly Communication (Sciences)
The UK Scholarly Communication Licence: Attempting to cut through the Gordian Knot of the complexities of funder mandates, publisher embargoes and researcher caution in achieving open access
... The immediate future of the UK-SCL remains uncertain. Its launch has been delayed on more than one occasion and the final shape of its implementation, in terms of numbers of partners and the precise details of the ...
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Overview of scholarly communication
... of scholarly communication would not be complete without a brief review of the so- called ‘serials crisis’ that has taken place in scholarly libraries throughout the world over the last 20 ...twelve ...
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Untying knots and joining dots: the role of librarians in the scholarly communication environment
... these issues, and this present piece provides some ‘edited highlights’ of the issues I covered. The notion of untying knots and joining dots was an apt metaphor for an examination of how the work of librarians ...
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An analysis of Wiki website for scholarly communication for academic conferences.
... This paper is a preliminary analysis of the 2005 ASIST conference Wiki website, and its effectiveness as an application for academic conferences. Page views and page edits information of the 2005 ASIST conference Wiki ...
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eBank UK linking research data, scholarly communication and learning
... of scholarly communication and describes outcomes from the innovative eBank UK project, which seeks to build links from e-research through to ...the scholarly knowledge cycle is described and the ...
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eBank UK: linking research data, scholarly communication and learning
... of scholarly communication and describes outcomes from the innovative eBank UK project, which seeks to build links from e- research through to ...the scholarly knowledge cycle is described and the ...
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Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication
... Indeed, Cox and Cox (2003) found 75% of journals were available online and, in studying the citation patterns of undergraduates between 1996-1999, Davis and Cohen (2001) found a significant shift away from citing books ...
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Untying knots and joining dots: the role of librarians in the scholarly communication environment
... these issues, and this present piece provides some ‘edited highlights’ of the issues I covered. The notion of untying knots and joining dots was an apt metaphor for an examination of how the work of librarians ...
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Use of blogs, Twitter and Facebook by UK PhD Students for Scholarly Communication
... The participants in the #phdchat case study shared various difficulties they had faced in starting and using research blogs. There were concerns related to academic rewards and the fear of not being able to secure those ...
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Academic Institutional Repositories in India: Global Visibility for an Institution's Scholarly Communication
... in scholarly communication to remove barriers to access and the increasing awareness that universities and research institutions are losing valuable digital and print materials have begun driving the ...
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Datasets, a shift in the currency of scholarly communication: implications for library collections and acquisitions
... Data as commodity is one of the most compelling indicators that data and data sets are taking on a much more vital role in the information marketplace. Several companies have begun marketing products that promote access ...
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‘Total cost of ownership’ of scholarly communication : managing subscription and APC payments together
... dealing with a mixed environment in which subscriptions still play an important role and are responsible for the majority of institutions’ expenditure on scholarly communication. The fact that any funding ...
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Scholarly communication in a digital world: the role of the digital repository at the Raman Research Institute
... ever-changing scholarly publishing sector and the emergence of the open access movement, the scholarly information communication landscape has been ...of scholarly communication, there ...
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'Total cost of ownership' of scholarly communication: managing subscription and APC payments together
... dealing with a mixed environment in which subscriptions still play an important role and are responsible for the majority of institutions’ expenditure on scholarly communication. The fact that any funding ...
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USE OF WEB 2 0 FOR CREATING SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION BY LIBRARY PROFESSIONALS IN INDIA
... ‘Despite an increasing interest in web 2.0 as a platform and enabler for e-research, we have limited understanding of the factors influencing adoption.’ Research Information Network Report. Web 2.0 tools and resources ...
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Preprints and scholarly communication: adoption, practices, drivers and barriers
... With ambiguities associated with each of these six deinitional components, Neylon et al. (2017) are right that “no univer- sal deinition of preprints exists”. The ‘pre’ of ‘preprint’ has sometimes been deined in relation ...
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Economics of Scholarly Communication
... Direct to internet publication suffers even more from a lack of faith in the selection process. This is not to say that there cannot be successful, high quality internet publications, rather that it is likely to take ...
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Accelerating scholarly communication : the transformative role of preprints
... It is not clear who will take the lead in preprint posting We investigated the question of whether preprint posting will evolve as a researcher- or publisher-centric phenomenon. The answer is not clear at present, but we ...
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Scholarly Communication and the Internet
... "Scholarly communication" can be broadly defined, as the various means by which information excha nge takes place in academia--including the formal publication of research; informal discourse among ...
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Scholarly communication in an electronic environment: problems and challenges
... Even where the URL remains constant issues of version control and quality assurance remain unresolved. Issues to do with network costs will lead to an increase in mirror sites. Such mirrors will inevitably be “out of ...
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