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From Open Access Publishing to Open Science
Christine Kosmopoulos
Apr 29, 2022
By facilitating and accelerating access to knowledge, the digital revolution and the development of the internet in the 1990s constituted a “disruptive” innovation that radically transformed the models and practices of...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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OAI in University Libraries
Open access initiatives (OAI) have gained momentum and have been accepted by the academic communities of the world. The role of libraries in promoting open access culture in universities is much more crucial in many ways. In the...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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Impact of Open Access on Library Collections and Collection Development Services
The growth of open access (OA) journals has been rapid and substantial. While still not the predominant form of journal publishing, OA journals of varying types have impacted the scholarly communication ecosystem in a profound...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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Fostering Financial Inclusion in a Developing Country
Financial inclusion is a vital development priority for countries worldwide. Mobile wallet (m-wallet) is considered as a disruptive payment method that will substitute the traditional physical wallet to achieve the so-called...
Accounting & Finance Business and Management Accounting and Finance Social Sciences and Humanities Government and Law
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Healthcare in the United States
Hillary Knepper
Nov 30, 2017
Healthcare in the United States is a dynamic mix of public and marketplace solutions to the challenge of achieving the maximum public good for the greatest number of people. Indeed, in the U.S. the healthcare industry generates...
Public & Sector Management Government and Law Public and Sector Management Social Sciences and Humanities Business and Management
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Evaluating the Presence of Greek Tourism-Related Public Sector Entities in Online Social Networks
Social networks have become one of the most popular tools in promoting the tourism product. This applies to National Tourism Agencies, as well as tourism-related general government bodies (GGBs) and local authorities (LAs). This...
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Employees' Participation in IT-Projects in the Public Sector
Mariem Ben Rehouma
Apr 01, 2019
Employee participation in IT projects in the public sector is argued in the literature as a critical factor for the success and acceptance of IT. However, studies on employee participation reported on the lack of end-users...
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MCDM for Candidate Selection in E-Voting
E-voting is one of the most important components of e-democracy and forms the basis of a democratic governance system. Voting results always lead to a broad debate in terms of candidate selection and whether the candidate...
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Fiscal Responsibility and Multi-Level Governance
Public-policy assumptions regarding sub-national governments' financial behavior are based on economic rationality. Therefore, to achieve fiscal stability at the macro level, central governments use fiscal rules both to...
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Analysing Open Data in Virtual Research Environments
Anneke Zuiderwijk
Oct 01, 2017
This article describes how virtual research environments (VREs) offer new opportunities for researchers to analyse open data and to obtain new insights for policy making. Although various VRE-related initiatives are under...
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Will Facebook Encourage Citizen Participation?
Facebook, the most popular social media in the world, has changed the ways of citizen involvement in governance. Politicians and (elected) public administrators worldwide have adopted Facebook as an important approach to connect...
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Is Ubiquitous Technology for Needs Data Management a Game Changer in Humanitarian Arena?
One in every 70 people around the world is caught up in a crisis (natural disasters, conflict, climate change, etc.) and urgently needs humanitarian assistance and protection according to the OCHA. The humanitarian community...
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Citizen Attitudes Towards E-Government Services
This article presents the findings of a comparative study about citizen attitudes towards e-government services, which was conducted in the Northern and Southern Nicosia Municipalities in Cyprus. The study is important and...
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Determinants of Financial E-Transparency in Honduran Municipalities
This paper contributes to the scarce literature on e-government transparency in Central America by analyzing the impact of political, financial and socio-economic factors on municipal financial e-transparency in Honduras. The...
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Structural Coupling of Regulatory Elements and Reality Challenges
Mirko Pečarič
Apr 01, 2020
Different realities are possible and thus also different decisions. They are based on predispositions faced with different challenges that people (do not) acknowledge. The research objective is to point at differences when the...
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COVID-19 Analysis, Prediction, and Misconceptions
COVID-19 is an infectious disease of the newly discovered coronavirus (CoV). The importance and value of open access (OA) resources are critical in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. OA aided in the development of a vaccine...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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Open Educational Resources
Open educational resources (OER) has varying explanations, but its broadest definitions include materials offered freely and openly to use and adapt for teaching, learning, development, and research. An open educational resource...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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Exploring the Challenges and Possibilities of Pan African International Police Cooperation
Gerald Gyamfi
Oct 01, 2019
In the promotion of global peace and security, police cooperation is considered one of the major pillars. This exploratory qualitative study focuses on the possibilities and challenges that should be overcome in the quest to...
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“Wait and See”
Tariq Zaman
Oct 01, 2020
As personal and collective community development becomes increasingly inseparable from interactions with information and communication technologies (ICTs), new constructs representing this relationship need to be explored. In...
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Investigating Change Management Based on Participation and Acceptance of IT in the Public Sector
The digitalization of public administrations faces big challenges regarding employees' acceptance of IT. Change management approaches based on participation should help achieving acceptance and success of IT projects in the...
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Contextual Considerations for Eco-Behavioral Change Among Aquatic Recreationists
This chapter draws from Australian studies to explore policies associated with behavioral interventions for environmental stewardship. Each case focuses on attempts to influence the eco-behaviors of recreational users of aquatic...
Policy & Reform Government and Law Public and Sector Management Social Sciences and Humanities Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences
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How Many Shades Are There in Sustainable Finance?
In the last years, sustainable finance emerged as one of the most popular research topics all over the world. Inspired by the need to reconsider the role and contribution of finance for a more sustainable development and...
Sustainable Development Business and Management Accounting and Finance Government and Law Social Sciences and Humanities
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EU Enlargement Rounds and Dilemmas
Dorian Jano
Jan 21, 2022
This chapter adopts both a historical and a comparative approach in studying EU enlargement. The aim here is to identify ‘whether' and ‘when' a country joins the Union, with an emphasis on the currently ongoing enlargement...
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Combating Misinformation in the Open Access Era
Since the early 21st century, the scholarly community has struggled with the rising cost of scientific publications and issues related to the accessibility and dissemination of scientific work and research results to the wider...
Information Resources Management Library and Information Science Information Resources Management Education Government and Law
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Using Tablets to Collect Breast Cancer Risk Information in an Underserved Population
Arash Naeim, Zhuoer Xie, Liliana Johansen, Neil Wenger, David Elashoff, Antonia Petruse, Guita Rahbar
May 06, 2022
The authors tested the use of tablets to collect breast cancer risk data and compared the approach against paper-based scantrons. The goal was to examine the usability of digital technology for data collection in underserved...
Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Medical Diagnosis and Practice Sexual, Reproductive, & Maternal Health Social Sciences and Humanities Government and Law
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