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...
Étiquette : open access publishing
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...
‘Publication favela’ or bibliodiversity? Open access publishing viewed from a European perspective
Author : Pierre Mounier A number of initiatives exist in European countries to support open scholarly communication in humanities and social sciences. This arti...
How open is open access research in Library and Information Science?
Authors : Wanyenda Leonard Chilimo, Omwoyo Bosire Onyancha The study investigates Library and Information Science (LIS) journals that published research article...
How to reach a wider audience with open access publishing: what research universities can learn from universities of applied sciences
Authors : Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer, Jaroen Kuijper In Amsterdam, the libraries of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied S...
Open access monitoring and business model in Latin America and Middle East: a comparative study based on DOAJ data and criteria
Authors : Ivonne Lujano, Mahmoud Khalifa This research will focus on analyzing the state of open access journals in two regions of developing countries (Latin A...
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
Author : Bertil F. Dorch Using Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over...