This paper looks at disciplinary differences in the production, relevance, and use of three predominant genres of informal scholarly communication on the internet: academic mailing lists; scholarly homepages, and scholar-produced decentralized digital resources. The aim is to contribute to the development of a theoretical framework for understanding and explaining disciplinary differences in th...

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Key stakeholders in scholarly communication have been at odds over the purpose, mission and business models of publishing. This piece reviews developments in the United States but with a particular focus on efforts at reestablishing common purpose, such as (1) the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable created in June 2009 by the Chairman of Science and Technology Committee of the US House of Represen...

Journal-based citations are an important source of data for impact indices. However, the impact of journal articles is not limited to other scholarly material, but extends beyond formal scholarly discourse. Measuring online scholarly impact calls for new indices, complementary to the older ones. In this article, we study a possible alternative metric source, blog posts aggregated at ResearchBlo...

For many researchers, one of the biggest issues is the lack of an efficient method to obtain latest academic progresses in related research fields. We notice that many researchers tend to share their research progresses or recommend scholarly information they have known on their microblogs. In order to exploit microblogging to benefit scientific research, we build a system called MicroScholar t...

The peer review process has been discussed at length in most of the established texts on the scholarly communication process, such as Ziman (1968), Ravetz (1973) and Meadows (1974). These authors agree that the four main functions of the scholarly literature are dissemination of current knowledge, archiving of the canonical knowledge base, quality control of published information, and assignmen...

Structured Abstract Purpose The aim of this paper is twofold, firstly to discuss the current and future issues around pre and post publication open peer review. Secondly to review some of the main protagonists and platforms that encourage open peer review, pre and post publication. Approach The first part of the paper aims to discuss the facilitators and barriers that enable and prevent academi...

This summary is extracted from the report of the same title published by the Publishing Research Council (PRC) and reproduced here by kind permission of the PRC. The full report and a shorter edited version can be found on the PRC website at http://www.publishingresearch.net/PeerReview.htm. Peer review is seen as an essential component of scholarly communication, the mechanism that facilitates ...

This paper demonstrates that advanced technologies and the increasing acceptance of academic open access e-journals offer an opportunity to reconsider their form and function as a medium to enhance scholarly communication. The academic open access e-journal is envisioned as a platform and a portal within the context of an open source community including a format and functions that enable it to ...

Purpose To reconsider open access and its relation to issues of “development” by highlighting the ties the open access movement has with the hegemonic discourse of development and to question some of the assumptions about science and scientific communication upon which the open access debates are based. To bring out the conflict arising from the convergence of the hegemonic discourses of scienc...