Quality open access publishing and registration to Directory of Open Access Journals
Authors : Xin Bi, Xi’an Jiaotong With the fast development of open access publishing worldwide, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as a community-curated ...
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A ‘gold-centric’ implementation of open access: Hybrid journals, the ‘total cost of publication’ and policy development in the UK and beyond
Authors : Stephen Pinfield, Jennifer Salter, Peter A. Bath This paper reports analysis of data from higher education institutions in the UK on their experience ...
An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities
Authors : Barbara McDonald, Ian Gibson, Elizabeth Yates, Carol Stephenson Introduction This exploratory study was intended to shed light on Canadian academics’ ...
Scholarly journal publishing in transition – from restricted to open access
Authors : Bo-Christer Björk While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet surprisingly litt...
Laying Tracks as the Train Approaches: Innovative Open Access Book Publishing at Heidelberg University from the Editors’ Point of View
Authors : Andrea Hacker, Elizabeth Corrao In April 2016, Heidelberg University’s newly founded open access publisher heiUP launched the first volume of th...
Open access articles receive more citations in hybrid marine ecology journals
Author : Jeff C. Clements The accumulation of evidence that open access publishing can increase citation rates highlights one benefit of universal accessibility...
Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile
Authors : Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valérie Spezi In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometri...