- Editorial
3 Citations
7,013 Views
2 Pages
Scientific Communication—A Vision for Tomorrow
- Anne-Katharina Weilenmann
“Publishing is not evolving. [...]
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Publications, Volume 6, Issue 4
2018 December - 10 articles
Cover Story: Conceived as a response to commercial publishing practices that have strained library budgets and prevented scholars from openly licensing and sharing their works, library publishing is both a local service program and a broader movement to disrupt the current scholarly publishing arena. It is a quickly growing class of publisher. The commercial publishing framework which determines the viability of monetizing a product is not necessarily applicable for library publishers who exist as a common good to address the needs of academic communities. Like any business venture, however, library publishers must develop a clear service model and business plan to create shared expectations for funding streams, quality markers, as well as technical and staff capacity. The anatomy of a library publishing business plan is presented here to assist library publishers in formalizing their programs. View this paper.
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Articles (10)
- Article
18 Citations
7,345 Views
10 Pages
Research Support Services in Spanish Academic Libraries: An Analysis of Their Strategic Plans and of an Opinion Survey Administered to Their Directors
- Ángel Borrego and
- Lluís Anglada
The transition from print to digital information has transformed the role of academic libraries, which have had to redefine themselves as intermediaries and partners in the learning and research processes. This study analyzes the evolution and curren...
- Article
15 Citations
7,234 Views
15 Pages
Journals that Rise from the Fourth Quartile to the First Quartile in Six Years or Less: Mechanisms of Change and the Role of Journal Self-Citations
- Juan Miguel Campanario
Journal self-citations may be increased artificially to inflate a journal’s scientometric indicators. The aim of this study was to identify possible mechanisms of change in a cohort of journals that rose from the fourth (Q4) to the first quarti...
- Editorial
1 Citations
7,569 Views
3 Pages
Against Storytelling—The New Paradigm of Scientific Publishing
- Anne-Katharina Weilenmann and
- Lawrence Rajendran
This is an interview which I conducted with Lawrence Rajendran, the founder and initiator of the platform «ScienceMatters». [...]
- Article
10 Citations
5,911 Views
12 Pages
Grades of Openness: Open and Closed Articles in Norway
- Susanne Mikki,
- Øyvind L. Gjesdal and
- Tormod E. Strømme
Based on the total scholarly article output of Norway, we investigated the coverage and degree of openness according to the following three bibliographic services: (1) Google Scholar, (2) oaDOI by Impact Story, and (3) 1findr by 1science. According t...
- Article
1 Citations
6,705 Views
18 Pages
The Evolution of the Concept of Semantic Web in the Context of Wikipedia: An Exploratory Approach to Study the Collective Conceptualization in a Digital Collaborative Environment
- Luís Miguel Machado,
- Maria Manuel Borges and
- Renato Rocha Souza
Wikipedia, as a “social machine”, is a privileged place to observe the collective construction of concepts without central control. Based on Dahlberg’s theory of concept, and anchored in the pragmatism of Hjørland—in wh...
- Article
3 Citations
6,698 Views
15 Pages
Women’s Studies in the Muslim World: A Bibliometric Perspective
- Engin Arik and
- Sema Akboga
This study investigates the scientific outputs made by scholars residing in Muslim countries in the field of Women’s Studies as represented in the Web of Knowledge between 1900 and 2016. Focusing on countries whose population was at least 50% M...
- Feature Paper
- Article
9 Citations
15,500 Views
14 Pages
Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program
- Kate McCready and
- Emma Molls
Over the last twenty years, library publishing has emerged in higher education as a new class of publisher. Conceived as a response to commercial publishing practices that have strained library budgets and prevented scholars from openly licensing and...
- Editorial
1 Citations
5,083 Views
4 Pages
Planning for Academic Publishing after Retirement
- Stephen K. Donovan
Many academics retire, yet continue to tread a well-worm research path. In contrast, retirement may also be a time for reinvention and changes in direction—place, name, institutional links, where to publish, and what to review. These changes ma...
- Article
15 Citations
6,328 Views
11 Pages
A Bibliometric Analysis of Cannabis Publications: Six Decades of Research and a Gap on Studies with the Plant
- Cristiane B. D. Matielo,
- Deise S. Sarzi,
- Beatriz Justolin,
- Rafael P. M. Lemos,
- Flavio A. O. Camargo and
- Valdir M. Stefenon
In this study we performed a bibliometric analysis focusing on the general patterns of scientific publications about Cannabis, revealing their trends and limitations. Publications related to Cannabis, released from 1960 to 2017, were retrieved from t...
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