Background:“Open peer review”(OPR), despite being a major pillar of Open Science, has
neither a standardized definition nor an agreed schema of its features and implementations …

Review, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes significantly affect how faculty direct their
own career and scholarly progression. Although RPT practices vary between and within …

Open Science holds the promise to make scientific endeavours more inclusive, participatory,
understandable, accessible and re-usable for large audiences. However, making processes …

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In
spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its …

Many academic analyses of good practice in the use of bibliometric data address only
technical aspects and fail to account for and appreciate user requirements, expectations …

Executive Summary Since the Second World War, academic publishing practices have had
to cope with enormous changes in the scale of the research enterprise, in the culture and …

Drawing on professional experience from university innovators and a wealth of international
case studies, The Higher Education Manager's Handbook offers practical advice and …

While institutional logics theory has increasingly been applied in higher education research,
especially in the past five years, agreement is lacking on how to approach institutional logics …

Scholarly communication is in a perpetual state of disruption. Within this, peer review of
research articles remains an essential part of the formal publication process, distinguishing it …

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of 'Open
Science'or 'Open Research'has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated …