...Nora Hangel; Diana Schmidt-Pfister Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine researchers’ motivations to publish by comparing different career stages (PhD students; temporarily employed postdocs/new professors; scholars with permanent employment) with regard to epistemic, pragmatic...

...Ángel Borrego; Francesc Garcia Purpose – This study seeks to analyse the policies of library and information science (LIS) journals regarding the publication of supplementary materials, the number of journals and articles that include this feature, the kind of supplementary materials published...

...Karen Davies Purpose This paper aims to determine the percentage of reference errors and type of errors in four library and information science (LIS) journals. Design/methodology/approach Research articles from issues published in 2007 were selected for analysis. The references were compared...

... above 60 per cent relevancy of OA content related to their research need. The majority of scholars considered OA useful to publish their work quickly, boost their productivity as an author and increase citations of their work. One third reported awareness of more than two OA journals. About 30 per cent...

...Kayvan Kousha Purpose More knowledge about open access (OA) scholarly publishing on the web would be helpful for citation data mining and the development of web‐based citation indexes. Hence, the main purpose of this study is to identify common characteristics of open access publishing, which may...

...Ian Rowlands; David Nicholas Purpose This paper aims to make a substantial contribution to the ongoing debate about the potential of open access publishing and institutional repositories to reform the scholarly communication system. It presents the views of senior authors on these issues...

...Ian Rowlands Purpose This paper offers a practical insight into the application of Lotka's law of author productivity to the question of how likely it is that an author will return to a particular publisher (rather than make another contribution to a subject literature, which is its usual...

... and hoaxes that explain why all of these are so attractive to readers and make those stories likely to be published in a profit‐led, entertainment‐driven market. Rumour, hoax and urban legend often offer information where the only criteria that sets them apart from news is whether they can be sourced...

...Julie Rowbotham This article explores the belief held by one publishing company, UpMyStreet, that location‐based searching technology not only allows users to more easily access information about their local area but also, when manipulated intelligently, can help receive our lost senesce...