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...

At this time, developers of research information systems are experimenting with new tools for research outputs usage that can expand the open access to research. These tools allow researchers to record research as annotations, nanopublications or other micro research outputs and link them by scientific relationships. If these micro outputs and relationships are shared by their creators publical...

his sentence, which we used for effect in numerous conference presentations and eventually fully articulated in a 2004 paper [1], is still by and large true. Although scholarly publishers have adopted new technologies that have made access to scholarly materials significantly easier (such as the Web and PDF documents), these changes have not realized the full potential of the new digital and ne...

Introduction We are currently witnessing a change in scholarly communication. Next to the paper, complementary materials, such as research data, source code, and images are regarded as important outcomes that should be shared and built upon (Kraker et al., 2011). In this new ecosystem, many archives have been established that cater to the needs of a digital and open science. With the increasing...

Following an overview of the historical context of copyright legislation, this paper discusses copyright within the scholarly communication process and the role of libraries in providing access to copyright materials in the digital age. The argument is made that the balance of “rights” and “exceptions” that has been maintained for 300 years needs to be reconsidered for scholarly communications,...