Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape
Authors : Niels Taubert, Linda Sterzik, Andre Bruns In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publicati...
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Criticizing Paywall Publishing, or Integrating Open Access into Feminist Movement
Authors : Meggie Mapes, Teri Terigele Dominant scholarly publishing models, reliant on expensive paywalls, remain preferential throughout higher education’s lan...
Open(ing) Access: Top Health Publication Availability to Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Authors : John L. Kilgallon, Saumya Khanna, Tanujit Dey, Timothy R. Smith, Kavitha Ranganathan Introduction Improving access to information for health professio...
How are academic libraries in Spanish-speaking Latin America responding to new models of scholarly communication and predatory publishing?
Author : Jairo Buitrago Ciro The topic of predatory publishing and ways to combat it is garnering considerable attention in many parts of the developed world, w...
Fast, Furious and Dubious? MDPI and the Depth of Peer Review Reports
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri Peer review is a central component of scholarly communication as it brings trust and quality control for ...
CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers
Authors : Petr Knoth, Drahomira Herrmannova, Matteo Cancellieri, Lucas Anastasiou, Nancy Pontika, Samuel Pearce, Bikash Gyawali, David Pride This paper introduc...
The Platformisation of Scholarly Information and How to Fight It
Author : Lai Ma The commercial control of academic publishing and research infrastructure by a few oligopolistic companies has crippled the development of open ...