The Price of Gold: Curiosity?
Authors : Daniel W. Hook, Mark Hahnel, Christian Herzog Gold open access as characterised by the payment of an article processing charge (APC) has become one of...
Étiquette : open access publishing
If Research Libraries and Funders Finance Open Access: Moving Beyond Subscriptions and APCs
Authors : John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk Following the examples of SCOAP3, in which libraries fund open access, and eLife, in which funding agencies have begun to...
The Two-Way Street of Open Access Journal Publishing: Flip It and Reverse It
Authors : Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn, Mikael Laakso As Open access (OA) is often perceived as the end goal of scholarly publishing, much research has focused on ...
Revisiting the Term Predatory Open Access Publishing
Author : Aamir Raoof Memon Since the 1990s, scholarly publishing has been transformed from subscription print-based paradigm to an open access and digital publi...
The impact of the open-access status on journal indices: a review of medical journals
Authors : Saif Aldeen AlRyalat, Mohammad Saleh, Mohammad Alaqraa, Alaa Alfukaha, Yara Alkayed, Maryann Abaza, Hadeel Abu Saa, Mohamed Alshamiry Background Over ...
Production and uptake of Open Access publications involving the private sector: the case of big pharma
Authors : Afredo Yegros-Yegros, Thed van Leeuwen Over the last years Open Access has been ranked very high on science policy agenda’s both internationally as we...
Is open access affordable? Why current models do not work and why we need internet‐era transformation of scholarly communications
Author : Toby Green Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In...