Evaluating an Open Access Publishing Fund at a Comprehensive University
Introduction As the open access movement has fostered a shift from subscriber-funded journals to author-pays models, scholars seek funding for the dissemination...
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Open access in the world and Latin America: A review since the Budapest Open Access Initiative
In 2012, the Open Access Movement to scientific information celebrated ten years of existence. The period, which represents the first stage of consolidation of ...
Principles of the Self Journal of Science: bringing ethics and freedom to scientific publishing
I present the core principles of the “Self-Journal of Science” (SJS), an open repository as well as a new paradigm of scientific publication. Rooted in Science ...
The Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative: incentivizing open research practices through peer review
Openness is one of the central values of science. Open scientific practices such as sharing data, materials and analysis scripts alongside published articles ha...
Viscous open data: The roles of intermediaries in an open data ecosystem
Open data has the potential to improve the governance of universities as public institutions. In addition, open data is likely to increase the quality, efficacy...
Peer review: The current landscape and future trends
This paper is based on research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust in 2015 and catalogues current initiatives and trends in the systems and processes surroundin...
Peer review in megajournals compared with traditional scholarly journals: Does it make a difference?
A megajournal is an open-access journal that publishes any manuscript that presents scientifically trustworthy empirical results, without asking about the poten...