The books may be there, but can you access them? [my photo]
Sci-Hub, Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis – we are all familiar with these names. They are collectively known as shadow libraries; who knows, perhaps because they only exist in the …
Anyone with an interest in Open Science and the role of repositories will find the ATG interview with Abel Packer, co-founder of SciELO, fascinating. SciELO is both a national provider of publishing services for journals, and an aggregator of content, active …
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas Krichel, about his role in setting up RePEc, the working paper repository for economics. During the interview, I learned about a publication alert system he created at the same time, …
How users discover scholarly content, from Inger & Gardner, 2021
How do students and researchers find content? This is a topic that comes up again and again in this column, since it seems to be so frequently misunderstood. Much of the …
We can all agree that a lot of research, perhaps most research, starts with asking questions. Does smoking cause cancer? What are the causes of the French Revolution? What causes inflation? The next step is …
Octopus is a new platform for scholarly research: somewhat like a preprint server, with instant publication, but Instead of a full article, a researcher posts just a component of an article: a problem statement, …
I don’t have access to the EBSCO Discovery Service, but above is an example screenshot provided by EBSCO as an example. A concept map (or knowledge graph) is just a visual collection of links. Sometimes, as here, there …
