The Publick Knowledge Project has been working for a few years now on a software called Open Journal Systems – OJS, now currently in version 1.1.7, which is implementing many languages including English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. OJS assists with every stage of the publishing process for refereed journals, from managing submission reviews through to online publication and indexing. Throug...

This article attempts to trace the evolution of scholarly communication from the days of publication of Journal-des-scavans to the era of web 2.0. Explains the Open Access (OA) movement in brief. The views of Harnad (7) on OA are highlighted. The emergence of Open Access 2.0 is put in context. The authors also explain science 2.0 as the emerging practice in scientific knowledge sharing and scho...

Odell, J., Palmer, K., & Dill, E. (2017). Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 5(General Issue), eP2169. http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/2162-3309.2169 Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban...

The characterisation of scholarly communication is dominated by citation-based measures. In this paper we propose several metrics to describe different facets of open access and open research. We discuss measures to represent the public availability of articles along with their archival location, licences, access costs and supporting information. Calculations illustrating these new metrics are ...

KU ScholarWorks is a service provided by the KU Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication & Copyright. This is the published version of the article, made available with the permission of the publisher. The original published version can be found at the link below. Maogang Gong et al. (2013). Ionic-Passivated FeS2 Photocapacitors for Energy Conversion and Storage. Chemical Communications Publ...

Scholarly publishing is concerned with the distribution of scholarly information through journals and conferences and other information media. As such scholarly publishing can be understood as a specific part of the information industry. With the advent of advanced information technologies many possible technologically enabled futures have been posited for scholarly publishing. This paper descr...