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...
Étiquette : open access publishing
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...
If funders and libraries subscribed to open access: The case of eLife, PLOS, and BioOne
Authors : John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk Following on recent initiatives in which funders and libraries directly fund open access publishing, this study works ou...
‘Predatory’ Open Access Journals as Parody: Exposing the Limitations of ‘Legitimate’ Academic Publishing
Author : Kirsten Bell The concept of the ‘predatory’ publisher has today become a standard way of characterising a new breed of open access journals...
Publications en libre accès en biologie–médecine : historique et état des lieux en 2016
Auteurs/Authors : Christophe Boudry, Manuel Durand-Barthez L’apparition du mouvement « open access » (libre accès, LA) et des archives ouvertes a bouleversé (et...
Assessing the Openness of Anthropology Journals
Authors : Melody Dale, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Sheeji Kathuria, Mary Ann Jones This study analyses the extent of gold open access (OA) publishing options in 3...
Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature
Authors : Simona Ibba, Filippo Eros Pani, John Gregory Stockton, Giulio Barabino, Michele Marchesi, Danilo Tigano Purpose One of the main tasks of a researcher ...