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 ...
Étiquette : gold open access
APCs – Mirroring the impact factor or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Author : Nina Schönfelder With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model f...
Disentangling Gold Open Access
Authors : Daniel Torres-Salinas, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Henk F. Moed This chapter focuses on the analysis of current publication trends in gold Open Access (O...
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...
The World’s Approach toward Publishing in Springer and Elsevier’s APC-Funded Open Access Journals
Authors : Hajar Sotudeh, Zahra Ghasempour Purpose The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels...
Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access through Global Collaboration: The Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics
Authors : Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele Gigantic particle accelerators, incredibly complex detectors, an antimatter factory and the discovery of the Higgs bos...
Gold Open Access Publishing in Mega-Journals: Developing Countries Pay the Price of Western Premium Academic Output
Authors : Jacintha Ellers, Thomas W. Crowther, Jeffrey A. Harvey Open access publishing (OAP) makes research output freely available, and several national gover...