The question of sustainability in the open access movement has been widely debated, yet satisfactory answers have yet to be generated: How do we move from an approach entirely based on temporary projects to an approach based on community-based sustainable infrastructure? What kinds of social and tec...

Whose Infrastructure? Towards Inclusive and Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures in Open Science

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Angela Okune et al. (May 16, 2019)

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The current discourse around Open Science has tended to focus on the creation of new technological platforms and tools to facilitate sharing and reuse of a wide range of research outputs. There is an assumption that once these new tools are in place, researchers—and at times, members of the general...

Introduction

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Leslie Chan (May 16, 2019)

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This volume brings together selected full papers from the 2018 ELPUB conference on the theme of Connecting the Knowledge Commons: From Projects to Sustainable Infrastructure. These papers went through a second round of external review after the conference, then they were revised by the authors accor...

Vertical Integration in Academic Publishing

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George Chen et al. (May 16, 2019)

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This paper attempts to illustrate the implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers’ business strategy towards open access business models and the acquisition of scholarly infrastructure utilizing the conceptual framework of rent-seeking theory. To document such a transformation,...

Framing Power: Tracing Key Discourses in Open Science Policies

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Denisse Albornoz et al. (Jun 22, 2018)

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Given that “Open Science” is becoming a popular policy object around the world, this study sought to identify key narratives about Open Science in policy, and critically examine the extent to which they are sustaining or strengthening multi-layered domination and inequality schemes that pre-exist in...

Whose Infrastructure? Towards Inclusive and Collaborative Knowledge Infrastructures in Open Science

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Angela Okune et al. (Jun 22, 2018)

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Performatividad en la ciencia mexicana: el dispositivo de evaluación del SNI

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Eduardo Aguado-López et al. (Dec 1, 2021)

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RESUMEN En este artículo se analiza la transformación (1984-2020) de la evaluación académica del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (sni) en México a partir del Acuerdo de Creación, Reglamentos, Convocatorias y Criterios Específicos de Evaluación -con énfasis en estos últimos- de las áreas siguiente...

La importancia del financiamiento sobre la producción científica en México

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Eva Ugarte Pineda et al. (Jun 1, 2021)

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Resumen En esta investigación se estudia el financiamiento de la investigación básica en México en el periodo 20092019. El análisis utiliza datos de Web of Science y se enfoca en el Science Citation Index Expanded. Ponemos especial atención en el impacto que tienen los recursos del Conacyt sobre la...

10. The Risk of Losing the Thick Description

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Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra (Jan 29, 2021)

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Realising the Promises of FAIR within Discipline-Specific Scholarly Practices Since their inception in 2014, the FAIR principles (findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability) have come a long way in serving the global need for generic guidelines for data management and stewardship....

Message from the Grassroots : Scholarly Communication, Crisis, and Contradictions

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Camille Marcos Noûs (2021)

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Librarians have responded to the decades-long “serials crisis” with a common narrative and a range of responses that have failed to challenge the ideology and structures that caused it. Using Walter Rodney’s theory of a guerilla intellectual, we critically examine the dominant understanding of this...

Tendencias recientes en las políticas científicas de ciencia abierta y acceso abierto en Iberoamérica

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Dominique - Autor/a Babini et al. (Nov 20, 2020)

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El propósito general del informe busca reconstruir y analizar el estado de las investigaciones y las políticas científicas en acceso abierto, datos abiertos de investigación y ciencia abierta en Iberoamérica e indagar su incidencia en la evaluación de trayectorias investigativas, publicaciones cient...

Open access and research dissemination in Africa

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Katie Wilson et al. (Apr 21, 2020)

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This paper discusses research undertaken by the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI) andparticipants during and following an Open Knowledge international workshop held in Mauritiusin September 2019. The workshop brought together key experts to explore the role of openknowledge in the creation of...

How Can We Use Social Media Data Related to OA Monographs

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Alkim Ozaygen et al. (Apr 21, 2020)

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This paper reports on a study of social media events relating to 28 Open Access (OA) monographs,published between 2014 and 2015. As with citations (Cronin 1981) social media events representthe frozen footprints of the journey that monographs take as they move through digitallandscapes. The study ca...

Serbian Citation Index: The sustainability of a business model based on partnership between a non-profit web publisher and journal owners

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Milica Ševkušić et al. (Apr 21, 2020)

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Enjeux et défis posés par les technologies numériques dans les bibliothèques universitaires au Sénégal. Etudes des besoins en formation continue du personnel de la BUCAD

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François Malick DIOUF (Jan 31, 2020)

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International audience

French Research Data Management and Sharing Services: are they used by scientists?

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Violaine REBOUILLAT et al. (Oct 9, 2019)

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French scientific and technical information (STI) staffs develop research data management and sharing services. In this paper, scientists’ use of these services is questioned. Forty-six interviews were conducted with researchers from the University of Strasbourg. They were asked to explore the onlin...

13. Show me the Copy! How Digital Media (Re)Assert Relational Creativity, Complicating Existing Intellectual Property and Publishing Paradigms

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Joseph F. Turcotte (Sep 12, 2019)

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Introduction It is important to recognize that emerging technological changes, especially communications media, are reciprocally engaged with changing social, economic, political, and cultural dynamics — even those that have a long history. This relationship needs to be understood in order to addres...

Promjene koje (znanstveni) život znače: otvorena znanost, zašto je važna i kako vam OpenAIRE tu može pomoći?

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Jadranka Stojanovski et al. (Jun 6, 2019)

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The Centre Mersenne, one year of operation

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Thierry Bouche et al. (Jun 2, 2019)

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The article describes the results of the first year of the Centre Mersenne for Open Scientific Publishing, a diamond open access platform for scientific publications developed by Mathdoc, a joint service unit based in Grenoble (France).The Centre Mersenne was launched on 1st January 2018 to offer th...

Service intermediation as a concept for an institutional publishing department

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Fabian Cremer et al. (Jun 2, 2019)

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The service portfolio of the institutional publishing platform perspectivia.net is built on partnerships, cooperations, and community networks. The paper discusses context, preconditions, best practices and challenges of an institutional service concept relying on services outside the institution.

Beyond the Dichotomy between Natural and Knowledge Commons

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Sarita Albagli et al. (May 6, 2019)

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The paper presents a critical analysis of the possibilities and limits of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, proposed by Elinor Ostrom and team, specially addressing the mutual relations between natural and knowledge commons. It results from an action research project on the...