“Open citations now!” So concludes a new open letter to publishers from researchers who support making scholarly citations freely available, in the interest of better citation analysis. Advocates of ...

University of Michigan researchers are hoping a new game they developed will help students with the dreaded academic task of crafting a bibliography—and make it more fun. The game, BiblioBouts, turns ...

For example, in Bulgaria and Chile, researchers cited nearly 20% more open access articles, and in Turkey and Brazil, the number of citations rose by more than 25%. Free online availability "is not a ...

Search is shifting from a list of blue links to a layered information environment where answers, summaries, and citations often appear before traditional organic results. In this environment, pages ...