General Studies · Scholarly Communication Trends
Consider the following statements about scholarly communication and its trends: (I) Gold Open Access requires authors to pay article processing charges so that their research is immediately freely available upon publication. (II) Altmetrics replace traditional citation counts entirely and are now the universally accepted standard for measuring research impact. (III) The FAIR Data Principles mandate that research data be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. (IV) Rossendale and Geurts identify 'Rewarding' as one of five forces in scholarly communication, referring to metrics-based recognition of scholarly performance. Which of the statements given above are correct?
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- 1Only (II) and (IV) are correct
- 2Only (I) and (II) are correct
- 3Only (I), (III) and (IV) are correct✓
- 4All four statements are correct
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Only (I), (III) and (IV) are correct
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