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Publications, Volume 11, Issue 3

September 2023 - 11 articles

Cover Story: The article examines the spheres of activity available to research-performing organizations for shaping the Open Access transformation, using a categorization of 22 spheres of activity. These spheres of activity include strategy and communication, services and infrastructures, business relationships with publishers, and collaborations. Current challenges and future action areas in promoting Open Access are also described, providing support for RPOs in handling OA and highlighting key issues. Libraries are critical stakeholders, playing a vital role in advancing Open Access at the local, national, and international levels in partnership with RPO management and other partners in faculty, administration, and information technology. View this paper
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Articles (11)

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,259 Views
6 Pages

The recent public release of the generative AI language model ChatGPT has captured the public imagination and has resulted in a rapid uptake and widespread experimentation by the general public and academia alike. The number of academic publications...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,599 Views
21 Pages

Open access (OA) has become a critical issue in science policy and affects a wide range of activities in universities and research labs. Research-performing organizations (RPOs), defined as publicly funded universities and research institutions, face...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,857 Views
18 Pages

The following paper examines some of the publishing habits observed among the winning applicants of the Bolyai János Research Scholarship. As an academic support programme, the Bolyai Research Scholarship forms a bridge between scholars with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,934 Views
16 Pages

This paper analyzes the impact of the ongoing war in Ukraine on the productivity and collaboration networks of Ukrainian academics. As a case study, we analyze the publication patterns in open-access MDPI journals using bibliographic analysis methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,681 Views
17 Pages

Making Open Scholarship More Equitable and Inclusive

  • Paul Longley Arthur,
  • Lydia Hearn,
  • John C. Ryan,
  • Nirmala Menon and
  • Langa Khumalo

Democratizing access to information is an enabler for our digital future. It can transform how knowledge is created, preserved, and shared, and strengthen the connection between academics and the communities they serve. Yet, open scholarship is influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,054 Views
25 Pages

Open Access is a global cause with the aim of allowing unrestricted access to all scientific research output in electronic formats. This paper presents a model for simulating the game of interests behind this cause in order to investigate ways of pro...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1,974 Views
2 Pages

Open access has emerged from the need to make scholarly communication freely available to the scientific community and not hidden behind a paywall [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,360 Views
26 Pages

The purpose of this study is to map the practices regarding open educational resources’ (OERs) development and implementation at European higher education institutions (HEIs) in the field of library and information science (LIS) during the COVI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,238 Views
24 Pages

Gender-Related Differences in the Citation Impact of Scientific Publications and Improving the Authors’ Productivity

  • Oleksandr Kuchanskyi,
  • Yurii Andrashko,
  • Andrii Biloshchytskyi,
  • Serik Omirbayev,
  • Aidos Mukhatayev,
  • Svitlana Biloshchytska and
  • Adil Faizullin

The article’s purpose is an analysis of the citation impact of scientific publications by authors of different gender compositions. The page method was chosen to calculate the citation impact of scientific publications, and the obtained results...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,158 Views
17 Pages

Social Justice: The Golden Thread in the Openness Movement

  • Reggie Raju,
  • Jill Claassen and
  • Kaela De Lillie

The current publishing landscape perpetuates biases that continue to exclude those who have been previously marginalized, specifically from the Global South including Africa. Incorporating philanthropy as the only driving principle to openly share kn...

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