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Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements
The funding crisis in UK higher education is forcing academic libraries to make difficult financial decisions. Caroline Edwards argues agreements with commercial publishers now represent an unreasonable expense and introduces the Open Journals Collective as an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications.
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Metrics sonification – What we can learn from listening to the output of hyperprolific academic authors
The representation of bibliometric datasets and citation analytics are a cornerstone of contemporary research assessment. However, this data can also be represented sonically and listened to. Deploying metrics sonification, Lutz Bornmann and Christian Ganser explore the phenomenon of hyperprolific authors, who publish a research paper every five days, and what listening to their output metrics can tell us about ‘research productivity’.
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