Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth?
« A “mega-journal” is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, ...
Étiquette : open access
Study on Perspectives Regarding Deposit on Open Access Repositories in the Context of Public Universities in the Central-Eastern Region of Argentina
« This article presents the results of a survey and qualitative study of needs and practices of open access scholarly works dissemination.The survey and study f...
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
« This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access busi...
Study of Open Access Publishing in Social Sciences and its Implications for Libraries
The Open Access Movement (OAM), which started as a gradual realisation by authors mainly in biomedical sciences to make available results of public-funded resea...
It Takes More than a Mandate: Factors that Contribute to Increased Rates of Article Deposit to an Institutional Repository
« INTRODUCTION Many institutions have open access (OA) policies that require faculty members to deposit their articles in an institutional repository (IR). A cl...
Getting the Word Out Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
« In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment to b...
Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014
As of May 2014, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed close to ten thousand fully open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals. Most of these jo...