3 papers
cs.DL2026
The Rise and Fall of the Initial Era
Simon J Porter, Daniel W Hook
Bibliographic data is a rich source of information that goes beyond the use cases of location and citation -- it also encodes both cultural and technological context. For most of i…
cs.DL2026
Market Dynamics, Governance and Open Research Metadata in the AI Era
Daniel W. Hook
The debate about scholarly knowledge infrastructure has long been framed as a contest between openness and commercial enclosure. This framing distorts both policy and practice. The…
physics.soc-ph2025
Understanding the importance of SHAPE to the UK research ecosystem
Hélène Draux, Briony Fane, Daniel W. Hook +5
The UK has a long-established reputation for excellence in research across a broad range of fields, but in recent years, there has been greater emphasis on STEM investment and grea…