Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large ...
Authors : Xin Bi, Xi’an Jiaotong With the fast development of open access publishing worldwide, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as a community-curated ...
Authors : Stephen Pinfield, Jennifer Salter, Peter A. Bath This paper reports analysis of data from higher education institutions in the UK on their experience ...
Authors : Barbara McDonald, Ian Gibson, Elizabeth Yates, Carol Stephenson Introduction This exploratory study was intended to shed light on Canadian academics’ ...
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet surprisingly litt...
Authors : Andrea Hacker, Elizabeth Corrao In April 2016, Heidelberg University’s newly founded open access publisher heiUP launched the first volume of th...
Author : Jeff C. Clements The accumulation of evidence that open access publishing can increase citation rates highlights one benefit of universal accessibility...