Determinants of Article Processing Charges for Medical Open Access Journals
Author : Sumiko Asai For-profit subscription journal publishers recently have extended their publishing range from subscription journals to numerous open access...
Étiquette : scholarly publishing market
Bibliodiversity in Practice: Developing Community-Owned, Open Infrastructures to Unleash Open Access Publishing
Authors : Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti Academic publishing is changing. The drive towards open access publishing, which is being powered in the UK by funding bodie...
Let It Flow: The Monopolization of Academic Content Providers and How It Threatens the Democratization of Information
Author : Dana Lachenmayer The monopolization of academic journal publishers concentrates power and valuable information into the hands of a few players in the m...
Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era
Authors : Fei Shu, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein, Kyle Siler, Juan Pablo Alperin, Vincent Larivière Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundl...
Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Philippe Mongeon, Kyle Siler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in indu...
Scholarly Communication at the Crossroad: From subscription to Open Access?
Author : Gayle R.Y.C. Chan Recent developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem toward open access (OA) have become highly complex in how researchers di...
Global OA APCs (APC) 2010–2017: Major Trends
Author : Heather Morrison The open access (OA) article processing charges (APC) project is a longitudinal study of the minority of fully OA journals (27% in 201...