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...
Étiquette : open access publishing
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...
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...