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Publications, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2018 - 11 articles

Cover Story: Whilst take-up of open access (OA) is growing, many institutions find themselves struggling with confused researchers, complex workflows, and rising costs in making OA work on the ground. The UK Scholarly Communication Licence (UK-SCL) is a bold attempt by a group of UK higher education institutions to try to address this situation. This paper is the first to provide an empirical investigation of the development of the UK-SCL and to examine its potential contribution. View this paper.
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Articles (11)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,505 Views
9 Pages

Recently, more and more countries are entering the global race for university competitiveness. On the one hand, global rankings are a convenient tool for quantitative analysis. On the other hand, their indicators are often difficult to quickly calcul...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,344 Views
10 Pages

Communicating Science through Comics: A Method

  • Jan Friesen,
  • John T. Van Stan and
  • Skander Elleuche

Scientists are trained to tell stories, scientific stories. Training is also needed to comprehend and contextualize these highly nuanced and technical stories because they are designed to explicitly convey scientific results, delineate their limitati...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
31 Citations
9,843 Views
9 Pages

Increasing specialization, changes in the institutional incentives for publication, and a host of other reasons have brought about a marked trend towards co-authored articles among researchers. These changes have impacted Science and Technology (S&am...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,566 Views
15 Pages

A Bridge between Society and Universities: A Documentary Analysis of Science Shops

  • Daniela De Filippo,
  • Nuria Bautista-Puig,
  • Elba Mauleón and
  • Elías Sanz-Casado

Citizen science surfaced as a new way of conducting research and science shops are one of the initiatives in which citizen collaboration with scientists has been most visible. These organisations provide independent and participatory support for rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,250 Views
10 Pages

Use of Twitter in Spanish Communication Journals

  • Victoria Tur-Viñes,
  • Jesús Segarra-Saavedra and
  • Tatiana Hidalgo-Marí

This is an exploratory study on the Twitter profiles managed by 30 Spanish Communication journals. The aim is to analyse the profile management, to identify the features of the most interactive content, and to propose effective practices motivating s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,165 Views
22 Pages

The international journal of neurocomputing (NC) is considered to be one of the most sought out journals in the computer science research fraternity. In this paper, an extensive bibliometric overview of this journal is performed. The bibliometric dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
11,533 Views
29 Pages

This study aims to provide a comprehensive and data-driven review of the knowledge domain of second language acquisition (SLA) and pedagogy in the past 30 years. Using knowledge domain visualization techniques, the study first provides a review of SL...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,826 Views
28 Pages

Whilst take-up of open access (OA) in the UK is growing rapidly due partly to a number of funder mandates, managing the complexities of balancing compliance with these mandates against restrictive publisher policies and ingrained academic priorities,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,890 Views
19 Pages

The increased pressures for high-volume, high-impact publications in English language and the high rejection rates of submitted manuscripts for publications present an often unsurpassable obstacle for (early career) researchers. At the same time, reg...

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