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...
Étiquette : open access publishing
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...
Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
Author : M. Ángeles Oviedo-García The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers of such journals expand, in so fa...
Austrian Transition to Open Access: a collaborative approach
Authors : Rita Pinhasi, Lothar Hölbling, Brigitte Kromp This article presents a collaborative project, the ‘Austrian Transition to Open Access’ (AT2OA), initial...
Open Access Publishing Probabilities Based on Gender and Authorship Structures in Vietnam
Authors : Huyen Thanh T. Nguyen, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Tam-Tri Le, Manh-Toan Ho, Quan-Hoang Vuong Open access (OA) publishing is beneficial for researchers to impr...
Sharing published short academic works in institutional repositories after six months : The implementation of the article 25fa (Taverne Amendment) in the Dutch Copyright Act
Authors : Jeroen Sondervan, Arjan Schalken, Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer The ambition of the Netherlands, laid down in the National Plan Open Science, is to achi...
The UGC-CARE initiative: Indian academia’s quest for research and publishing integrity
Authors : Bhushan Patwardhan, Shubhada Nagarkar This paper discusses the reasons for emergence of predatory publications in India, engendered by mandates of hig...