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National differences in dissemination and use of open access literature
(Public Library of Science, 2022-08-09)
Open Access (OA) dissemination has been gaining a lot of momentum over the last decade, thanks to the implementation of several OA policies by funders and institutions, as well as the development of several new platforms ...
The state of green open access in Canadian universities = L’état de libre accès vert dans les universités canadiennes
(Association canadienne des sciences de l'information, 2023)
This study investigates the use of institutional repositories for self-archiving peerreviewed work in the U15 (an association of fifteen Canadian research-intensive universities). It
relates usage with university open ...
Mapping information research in Canada = Cartographier la recherche en science de l’information au Canada
(Association canadienne des sciences de l'information, 2023-11-06)
This study examines the Canadian information research landscape through the lens
of the eight academic units hosting ALA-accredited programs. We created a citation-based
network utilizing the scholarly articles published ...
Knowledge sharing in global health research : the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature
(BMC, 2017)
Background: In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic
potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available ...
Who are the acknowledgees? An analysis of gender and academic status
(MIT Press, 2020-06-01)
Acknowledgements found in scholarly papers allow for credit attribution of nonauthor contributors. As such, they are associated with a different kind of recognition than authorship. While several studies have shown that ...
The oligopoly’s shift to open access : how the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges
(MIT Press, 2023-08-03)
This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & ...
Collection development in the era of big deals
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2021)
Drawing on an original methodology using citations, downloads, and survey data, this paper analyzes journal usage patterns across 28 Canadian universities. Results show that usage levels vary across disciplines and that ...
From art to science : a bibliometric analysis of architectural scholarly production from 1980 to 2015
(Public Library of Science, 2022-11-03)
According to recent literature on “architecture” as a discipline, practical knowledge relevant
to its process of making has decreased in importance in favor of a more academic approach.
Using data derived from Ulrich’s ...
Costly collaborations : the impact of scientific fraud on co-authors’ careers
(Association for information science and technology, 2015-01-30)
Over the last few years, several major scientific fraud cases have shocked the scientific
community. The number of retractions each year has also increased tremendously, especially in
the biomedical field, and scientific ...
Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)
Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—
known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than
individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections ...