Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals
Authors : Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge product...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Decolonizing Scholarly Communications through Bibliodiversity
Authors : Shearer Kathleen, Becerril-García Arianna Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem. In the field of scholarly communications,...
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?
Authors : Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, David J. Allen, Bas de Bruin, Etienne Derat, Henrik Urdal This academic thought piece provides an overview of the histor...
Waiving article processing charges for least developed countries: a keystone of a large-scale open access transformation
Authors : Niels Taubert, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, Graham Stone This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house...
Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia
Authors : Balázs Bodó, Dániel Antal, Zoltán Puha Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authori...
Open Bioeconomy—A Bibliometric Study on the Accessibility of Articles in the Field of Bioeconomy
Authors : Marianne Duquenne, Hélène Pros, Joachim Schöpfel, Franck Dumeignil Open access (OA) to scientific information is one of the major challenges and objec...
Scrutinising what Open Access Journals Mean for Global Inequalities
Authors : Márton Demeter, Ronina Istratii In the current article, we tested our hypothesis by which high-impact journals tend to have higher Article Processing ...