Communication Scholarship and the Quest for Open Access
Authors : Preston Carmack, Michael R. Kearney, Abbey N. McCann The advent of black, green, and gold open access publication models poses unique questions for sc...
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Open access movement in the scholarly world: Pathways for libraries in developing countries
Authors : Arslan Sheikh, Joanna Richardson Open access is a scholarly publishing model that has emerged as an alternative to traditional subscription-based jour...
The Oligopoly’s Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges
Authors : Leigh-Ann Butler, Lisa Matthias, Marc-André Simard, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein This study aims to estimate the total amount of article proces...
Varieties of diffusion in academic publishing: How status and legitimacy influence growth trajectories of new innovation
Authors : Kyle Siler, Vincent Larivière Open Access (OA) publishing has progressed from an initial fringe idea to a still-growing, major component of modern aca...
The Predatory Paradox : Ethics, Politics, and Practices in Contemporary Scholarly Publishing
Authors : Amy Koerber, Jesse C. Starkey, Karin Ardon-Dryer, R. Glenn Cummins, Lyombe Eko, Kerk F. Kee In today’s ‘publish or perish’ academic setting, the insti...
Measured in a context: making sense of open access book data
Author : Ronald Snijder Open access (OA) book platforms, such as JSTOR, OAPEN Library or Google Books, have been available for over a decade. Each platform show...
The use of shadow libraries at Universitas Indonesia
Authors : Fauzan Eka Kusuma, Rahmi Rahmi Shadow libraries (SLs), such as Sci-Hub, Z-Library, and Library Genesis (LibGen), are online databases that provide con...