Anticipated effects of an open access policy at a private foundation
Author : Eesha Khare, Carly Strasser The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF) was interested in understanding the potential effects of a policy requiring op...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Who support open access publishing? Gender, discipline, seniority and other factors associated with academics’ OA practice
Author : Yimei Zhu This paper presents the findings from a survey study of UK academics and their publishing behaviour. The aim of this study is to investigate ...
Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review
Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large ...
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 ...
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...