Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
Auteur/autrice : Hans Dillaerts
On the role of openness in education: A historical reconstruction
Authors : Sandra Peter, Markus Deimann In the context of education, « open(ness) » has become the watermark for a fast growing number of learning materials and ...
La tension entre la pratique de recherche et l’intégrité scientifique : l’exemple de l’activité bibliographique
Auteurs/Authors : Sophie Kennel, Elsa Poupardin L’activité bibliographique des chercheurs va de la constitution d’une culture savante à l’enrichissement de la c...
A guideline for reporting experimental protocols in life sciences
Authors : Olga Giraldo, Alexander Garcia, Oscar Corcho Experimental protocols are key when planning, performing and publishing research in many disciplines, es...
Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo
Author : Josh Bolick In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes ...
Towards a Decentralized Process for Scientific Publication and Peer Review using Blockchain and IPFS
Authors : Antonio Tenorio-Fornés, Viktor Jacynycz, David Llop, Antonio A. Sanchez-Ruiz, Samer Hassan The current processes of scientific publication and peer re...
The use and perceptions of open Access resources by legal academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa
Author : Elizabeth Moll-Willard Although access to primary legal materials in South Africa is now easily accessible as a result of the Free Access to Law moveme...