Negative Effects of “Predatory” Journals on Global Health Research
Authors : Diego A. Forero, Marilyn H. Oermann, Andrea Manca, Franca Deriu, Hugo Mendieta-Zerón, Mehdi Dadkhah, Roshan Bhad, Smita N. Deshpande, Wei Wang, Myriam...
Étiquette : open access publishing
A Very Long Embargo: Journal Choice Reveals Active Non-Compliance with Funder Open Access Policies by Australian and Canadian Neuroscientists
Authors: Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo, Belinda Po Pyn Lay Research funders around the world have implemented open access policies that require funded research to be made...
Unethical aspects of open access
Authors : David Shaw, Bernice Elger In this article we identify and discuss several ethical problematic aspects of open access scientific publishing. We conclud...
Sustainable open access for scholarly journals in 6 years – the incubator model at Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
Authors : Jeroen Sondervan, Fleur Stigter Key points Humanities and the social science journals need flexible funding models. Pragmatism and collaboration are k...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...
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...
Agriculture Journals Covered by Directory of Open Access Journals: An Analytical Study
Author : Muruli Acharya With the advent of open access movement, open access journals (OAJs) being the prodigious source of academic and research information ha...