Scholarly communication

philosophy about free redistribution and access to a product

free distribution of knowledge

The ORCID (; Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a nonproprietary persistent identifier, in the form of an alphanumeric code, to uniquely identify authors and contributors of scholarly communication.

ResearchGate is a commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although other services have more registered users, and a 2015–2016 survey suggests that almost as many academics have Google Scholar profiles.

Academia.edu is a commercial platform for sharing academic research that is uploaded and distributed by researchers from around the world. All academic articles are free to read by visitors, however uploading and downloading articles is restricted to registered users, with additional features accessible only as a paid subscription.

peer-reviewed periodical relating to an academic discipline

global event in support of Open Access to scientific publications

American philosopher advocate of open access

international alliance of academic libraries

an area of research where researchers delude themselves via wishful thinking or inadvertent mistakes

social movement

American nonprofit organization

US-based Creative Commons project for efficient web-enabled scientific research, 2005-2009

Figshare is an online open access repository where researchers can preserve and share their research outputs, including figures, datasets, images, and videos. It is free to upload content and free to access, in adherence to the principle of open data. Figshare is one of a number of portfolio businesses supported by Digital Science, a subsidiary of Springer Nature.

bias exhibited by scholars

Altmetric, or altmetric.com, is a data science company that tracks where published research is mentioned online, and provides tools and services to institutions, publishers, researchers, funders and other organisations to monitor this activity, commonly referred to as altmetrics. Altmetric was recognized by European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn in 2014 as a company challenging the traditional reputation systems.

MyScienceWork is a technology company that provides custom open source data management solutions for research institutions, scientific publishers and private-sector R&D companies.

open access publishing model

act of making research datasets available, often a large quantity at one time

list of "ten principles to guide research evaluation"

practice of making data available to others

journal or other forms of scholarly publication with no access barriers (such as cost) for both readers and authors