The construction of academic publishing and terminological structures using the Google Scholar search engine: an example of environmental terms in publications at the classical universities of Kharkiv and Skopje

A methodology for constructing academic terminological and publishing structures using the Google Scholar search engine is presented. These structures are formed for the classical universities of Kharkiv and Skopje based on the example of basic environmental terms of a general nature that are distin guished in English language publicationsyesBelgorod State Universit

The potential of using the Google Scholar search engine for estimating the publication activities of universities

This paper studies the potential of using the Google Scholar search engine for estimating the publication activities of universities and considers a procedure for such estimation with the help of queries for the English names of universitiesyesBelgorod State Universit

Open access hybrid journals

The problem of the creation and operation of hybrid scientific open access journals, which first appeared ten years ago, is considered. This paper suggests an algorithm for calculating the cost of a sponsored article at each time step, which shows that if the value of a subscription is equal to the quantity of sponsored articles, then the cost of a sponsored article is equal to the subscription costyesBelgorod State Universit

Open access to scientific knowledge. Who receives dividends?

Open access to scientific knowledge is considered as a new neo-liberal project in the globalized world. The advantages and disadvantages that members of the open access obtain are described. Open access greatly facilitates monitoring, analysis, and control of scientific research by global institutions and transnational corporationsyesBelgorod State Universit

Institutional policies for open access to the results of scientific research

This paper describes the principles of all the known institutional policies for open access (OA) to the results of scientific research for research organizations, publishing companies, and funding agencies, in addition to which we suggest developing OA policies for libraries. The paper proposes a structural-logical scheme for an institutional OA policy systemyesBelgorod State Universit

The competitiveness of scientific research and measures to increase it

In this paper, the consideration of the problem of the competitiveness of scientific research as an independent scientific line in the context of the science of science, whose main methodological instruments could be the adapted economic concepts of competitiveness and clusters, as well as mathematical models of competitive interactionsyesBelgorod State Universit

The webometric estimate of the publication activities of universities: the influence of the Belgorod declaration

This paper gives the webometric estimate of the functioning of the universities included in the Near-Frontier Belarusan–Russian–Ukrainian University Consortium (in the context of the adoption of the Belgorod Declaration on open access to scientific knowledge and our cultural heritage) during 2008–2009 on the basis of the Spanish webometric university ranking and the potential of the Google Scholar search engineyesBelgorod State Universit

Simulation expert system for making students’ college decisions

A brief survey has been performed of foreign investigations on the modeling of the process of decision making about student choices of colleges and universities; a suitable simulation expert system has been developed at a conceptual levelyesBelgorod State Universit

Is sustainable development of scientific systems possible in the neo-liberal agenda?

This paper discusses the evolution of large scientific systems in general and the system of formal scientific communications in particular in the context of their gradual transition to private hands. This in turn results in increased 'phony' research fronts, fueled by the interests of big business, pools of inaccessible hi-impact Anglo-American journals whose authors cite each other (author's citation cartels), and non-transparent global university rankings, which can be manipulate