Claire Creaser

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the costs and benefits of three alternative models for scholarly publishing - subscription publishing, open access publishing and self-archiving -and quantified the cost and benefit implications for each of the main players in the scholarly communication system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the awareness of scholarly authors toward open access repositories and the factors that motivate their use of these repositories and found that although there was a good understanding and appreciation of the ethos of open access in general, there were clear differences between scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds in their understanding of Open Access repositories and their motivations for depositing articles within them.

TL;DR: This paper represents the first comprehensive review of the mega-journal phenomenon, drawing not only on the published academic literature, but also grey, professional and informal sources.

TL;DR: In a knowledge economy, innovation and the capacity of the system to create and disseminate the latest scientific and technical information are important determinants of prosperity (David and Foray 1995; OECD 1997) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at how researchers publish and why, including the motivations that lead them to publish in different formats and the increase in collaboration and co-authorship, and explore how researchers decide what to cite and the influence of research assessment on their behaviours and attitudes.