Criteria for Bibliographic Databases in a Well-Functioning Scholarly Communication and Research Assessment Ecosystem
Virginia M. Barbour, Caitlin Carter, Jonathon Alexis Coates, Kelly Denise Cobey, Katherine S. Corker, Elizabeth A Gadd, Bianca M. R. Kramer, Rebecca N Lawrence, Eva Méndez, Cameron Neylon, Janne Pölönen, Bodo M. Stern, Ludo Waltman · 2025
There is much to celebrate when it comes to recent developments in scholarly communication and research assessment. The scholarly communication landscape shows many promising initiatives, including a growing use of preprint services, open access repositories, and open peer review platforms, as well as an increasing interest in more equitable scholarly publishing models such as diamond open access and Subscribe to Open.