Promoting Research and Best Practices in Subject Reference Structures

Five years post-DORA: promoting best practices for research assessment

The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) was penned 5 years ago to articulate best practices for how we communicate and judge our scientific contributions. In particular, it adamantly declared that Journal Impact Factor (JIF) should never be used as a surrogate measure of the quality of individual research contributions, or for hiring, promotion, or funding decisions. Since t...

Best practices research.

"Best practices research," described in this paper, refers to a systematic process used to identify, describe, combine, and disseminate effective and efficient clinical and/or management strategies developed and refined by practicing clinicians. It involves five steps: development of a conceptual model or series of steps, definition of "best" based on values and standards, identification and ev...

Promoting Open Scholarship in Africa: Benefits and Best Library Practices

A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and TheoryBuilding

Reference Architecture & Best Practices Building Scalable Applications In the Cloud