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...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Should Indian researchers pay to get their work published?
Authors : Muthu Madhan, Siva Shankar Kimidi, Subbiah Gunasekaran, Subbiah Arunachalam We raise the financial and ethical issue of paying for getting papers publ...
Cost hurdles to open access publishing: A citizen scientist perspective
Author : Wenfa Ng Besides offering fun activities for non-scientists to explore the natural world through experiments, simulations or games, the evolving conce...
Hybrid open access—A longitudinal study
Authors : Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within sub...
Converting Scholarly Journals to Open Access: A Review of Approaches and Experiences
Authors : David Solomon, Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk This report identifies ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted their p...
Write up! A Study of Copyright Information on Library-Published Journals
Author : Melanie Schlosser INTRODUCTION Libraries have a mission to educate users about copyright, and library publishing staff are often involved in that work....
Article processing charges for open access publication—the situation for research intensive universities in the USA and Canada
Authors : David Solomon, Bo-Christer Björk Background Open access (OA) publishing via article processing charges (APCs) is growing as an alternative to subscrip...