Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
Authors : Martin Paul Eve, Ernesto Priego “Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer rev...
Étiquette : gold open access
Business process costs of implementing “gold” and “green” open access in institutional and national contexts
Authors : Robert Johnson, Stephen Pinfield, Mattia Fosci As open access (OA) publication of research outputs becomes increasingly common and is mandated by inst...
A study of institutional spending on open access publication fees in Germany
Authors : Najko Jahn, Marco Tullney Publication fees as a revenue source for open access publishing hold a prominent place on the agendas of researchers, policy...
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
Authors : David Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their p...
The OpenAIRE2020 FP7 Post-Grant Open Access Pilot: Implementing a European-wide funding initiative for Open Access publishing costs
In the first half of 2015 the European Commission launched a new funding initiative to cover the Open Access publishing costs of publications arising from finis...
Bibliometric and benchmark analysis of gold open access in Spain: big output and little impact
This bibliometric study analyzes the research output produced by Spain during the 2005-2014 time period in Open Access (OA) journals indexed in Web of Science. ...
The “total cost of publication” in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions
« As open-access (OA) publishing funded by article-processing charges (APCs) becomes more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the “total ...