Scientific workflow systems provide languages for representing complex scientific processes as decompositions into lower level tasks, down to the level of atomic, executable units. To support data analysis activities, a wide variety of such languages represent data transformation and processing operations as task nodes within a workflow. Adding data type information to the task inputs and outpu...

Determining how scientific achievements influence the subsequent process of knowledge creation is a fundamental step in order to build a unified ecosystem for studying the dynamics of innovation and competitiveness. Relying separately on data about scientific production on one side, through bibliometric indicators, and about technological advancements on the other side, through patents statisti...

Research information is becoming increasingly important in the knowledge societies. In Islamic Republic of Iran, a national current research information system has been established to manage all research information. Scientific journal articles, as the outputs of the research, are one of the main entities in CRISes. In this paper, we show the process of the establishment of our National Open-ac...

Introduction In the last couple of years, the role of Open Access (OA) publishing has become central in science management and research policy. In the UK and the Netherlands, national OA mandates require the scientific community to seriously consider publishing research outputs in OA forms. At the same time, other elements of Open Science are becoming also part of the debate, thus including not...