It has been noted that one of the potential benefits of Open Access is the increase in visibility for research output from less developed countries. However little is known about ...
In this paper we study how to provide metadata for a pre-print archive. Metadata includes, but is not limited to, title, authors, citations, and keywords, and is used to both pres...
This paper describes three important pillars of publishing programs emerging at university libraries: providing a robust publishing platform, engaging the academic community in di...
This paper deals with the definitions, explanations and testing of the PageRank formula modified and adapted for bibliographic networks. Our modifications of PageRank take into ac...
This paper reports on an inquiry into the use of metadata, publishing formats, and markup in editormanaged open access journals. It builds on findings from a study of the document...
Open Medicine (http://www.openmedicine.ca) is an electronic open access, peer-reviewed general medical journal that started publication in April 2007. The editors of Open Medicine...
This paper highlights some of the issues that have been reported in surveys carried out by the RIOJA (Repository Interface for Overlaid JournalArchives) project (http://www.ucl.ac...
A key parameter in any discussions about the academic peer reviewed journal system is the number of articles annually published. Several diverging estimates of this parameter have...
Background: Sharing data is a tenet of science, yet commonplace in only a few subdisciplines. Recognizing that a data sharing culture is unlikely to be achieved without policy gui...
This paper analyzes U.S. university press datasets (2001-2007) to determine net publishers' revenues and net publishers' units, the major markets and channels of distrib...