Evolution of the scholarly mega-journal, 2006–2017
Author : Bo-Christer Björk Mega-journals are a new kind of scholarly journal made possible by electronic publishing. They are open access (OA) and funded by ch...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Developing indicators on Open Access by combining evidence from diverse data sources
Authors : Thed van Leeuwen, Ingeborg Meijer, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros, Rodrigo Costas In the last couple of years, the role of Open Access (OA) publishing has beco...
Gathering the Needles: Evaluating the Impact of Gold Open Access Content With Traditional Subscription Journals
Authors : Alison Boba, Jill Emery Utilizing the Project COUNTER Release 4 JR1-GOA report, two librarians explore these data in comparison to journal package sub...
Opening Academic Publishing – Development and application of systematic evaluation criteria
Authors : Anna Björk, Juho-Matti Paavola, Teemu Ropponen, Mikael Laakso, Leo Lahti This report summarizes the development of a standardized scorecard for evalua...
Open Access Determinants and the Effect on Article Performance
Author : Sumiko Asai Although open access has steadily developed with the continuous increase in subscription journal price, the effect of open access articles ...
Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
New models for open digital collections?
Authors: Paola Marchionni, Peter Findlay This article discusses the potential for new community-based funding models to support digitization and open access (OA...