Academic Librarians, Open Access, and the Ethics of Care
Author : Cara Bradley This paper explores the value of applying the ethics of care to scholarly communications work, particularly that of open-access (OA) libra...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
Open access scientific journals: an analysis of the DOAJ catalogue
Authors : Suênia Oliveira Mendes, Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues Introduction The research aims to analyse the publishers, countries of publication, citation index...
Membership of the editorial boards of journals published by the predatory publisher OMICS: willing and unwilling participation
Author : Michael Downes Introduction OMICS is the largest and most successful predatory publisher, with numerous subsidiaries. In 2019 it was convicted of uneth...
How do scientific papers with different levels of journals spread online? Exploring the temporal dynamics in the diffusion processes
Authors : Renmeng Cao, Xiaoke Xu, Yunxue Cui, Zhizhao Fang, Xianwen Wang Social media has become an important channel for publicizing academic research, which p...
Attitudes toward open peer review among stakeholders of a scholar-led journal in Brazil
Authors : Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle, Thiago Dias Sarti Scholarly journals should consider the attitudes of their communities before adopting any of the seven...
Will Academic Library Publishing Break OER? A Diffusion of Innovations Study
Authors : Kathy Essmiller, Tutaleni Asino Academic libraries are among the organizations advocating for open educational resources (OER), often playing a key ca...
Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers
Authors : Henk F. Moed, Carmen Lopez-Illescas, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Felix de Moya-Anegon The list of potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly op...