Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE , are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ...

Purpose – This paper aims to report on the findings of the second phase of the Behavioural strand of the EC‐funded PEER project ( http://www.peerproject.eu/ ). The paper seeks to explore authors' and readers' behaviours in relation to authors' peer‐reviewed accepted manuscripts in open...

Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss the question of “openness” in e‐Science. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on 12 in‐depth interviews with principal investigators, project managers and developers involved in UK e‐Science projects, together with supporting...

A number of interesting associations are described between levels of service point use, population information and library inputs, based on data obtained from two London boroughs in respect of individual static service points. Methods of deriving catchment area data using membership information...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review current knowledge, research and thinking about the difficulties facing public libraries offering internet access to their users in ensuring legally compliant and non-offensive use of this facility whilst still adhering to the professional value...

Purpose: A major development in academic libraries in the last decade has been recognition of the need to support research data management (RDM). The purpose of this paper is to capture how library research data services (RDS) have developed and to assess the impact of this on the nature of...

Purpose The study aims to provide an analytical overview of current innovations in peer review and their potential impacts on scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach The authors created a survey that was disseminated among publishers, academic journal editors and other organizations...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine the extent to which readers perceive correctly the reasons why authors cite items in scholarly texts. Design/methodology/approach – The authors of ten library and information science articles provided the reasons for citing material in their...

A study has been made of the effect of controlled variations in indexing vocabulary size on retrieval performance using the Cranfield 200 and 1400 test collections. The vocabularies considered are sets of variable‐length character strings chosen from the fronts of document and query terms so...