The last few years have seen the emergence of several Open Access (OA) options in scholarly communication, which can broadly be grouped into two areas referred to as gold and green roads. Several recent studies showed how big the extent of OA is, but there have been few studies showing impact of OA in the visibility of journals covering all scientific fields and geographical regions. This resea...

Scholarly digital storytelling combines academic research and skills to communicate scholarly work within beyond the classroom. This article presents three case studies that demonstrate efforts integrate storytelling, a technology-enhanced assessment, across disciplines, geographic locations, teaching contexts. The originate in United States, Northern Ireland [UK], Norway, represent learning mu...

Open science refers to all things open in research and scholarly communication: from publications and research data to code, models and methods as well as quality evaluation based on open peer review. However, getting started with implementing open science might not be as straightforward for all stakeholders. For example, what do research funders expect in terms of open access to publications a...

MICHAEL MABE Director of Academic Relations, Elsevier, and Visiting Professor, Depar tment of Information Science, City University, London The number and the growth characteristics of scholarly journals have been matters of some debate for a considerable time. Many assumptions about the future of the scholarly communication system have been predicated on very high estimates of the number of jou...

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. Jeanne Klein. (2012). Without Distinction of Age: The Pivotal Roles of Child Actors and Their Spectators in Nineteenth-Century Th...

Open Access has become a major mechanism whereby the returns to public investment in research are maximized. Initially, the information technology revolution resulted in new dysfunctions and inequalities of scholarly communication, such as large price differences among publishers and journals; widespread usage limitations and re-use restrictions based on copyright; or systemic manipulation base...

There is little knowledge regarding the exchange of academic information on religious contexts. The objective of this informational study was to perform an overall analysis of all Buddhism-related communications collected in the Web of Science (WoS) from 1993 to 2011. The studied informational parameters include the growth in number of the scholarly communications, as well as the language-, doc...

ACCLAIM's mission is the cultivation of indigenous leadership capacity for the improvement of school mathematics in rural places. The project aims to (1) understand the rural context as it pertains to learning and teaching mathematics and (2) articulate in scholarly works, including empirical research, the meaning and utility of that learning and teaching among, for, and by rural people. 011967...