Why Open Access: Economics and Business Researchers’ Perspectives
Authors : Carmen López-Vergara, Pilar Flores Asenjo, Alfonso Rosa-García Public research policies have been promoting open-access publication in recent years as...
Étiquette : open access
Preprints in times of COVID19: the time is ripe for agreeing on terminology and good practices
Authors : Raffaella Ravinetto, Céline Caillet, Muhammad H. Zaman, Jerome Amir Singh, Philippe J. Guerin, Aasim Ahmad, Carlos E. Durán, Amar Jesani, Ana Palmero,...
Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation
Author : Erwin Krauskopf The National Agency of Research and Development from Chile is proposing, for the first time, a national OA policy aiming to ensure acce...
Over-promotion and caution in abstracts of preprints during the COVID-19 crisis
Authors : Frederique Bordignon, Liana Ermakova, Marianne Noel The abstract is known to be a promotional genre where researchers tend to exaggerate the benefit o...
Game theory and scholarly publishing: premises for an agreement around open access
Author : Abdelghani Maddi Stakeholders in research and scientific publishing are gradually joining the Open-Access (OA) movement, which is gaining momentum to b...
Article Processing Charges based publications: to which extent the price explains scientific impact?
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, David Sapinho The present study aims to analyze relationship between Citations Normalized Score (NCS) of scientific publications and...
The Changing Landscape of Open Access Publishing: Can Open Access Publishing Make the Scholarly World More Equitable and Productive?
Author : Richard G. Dudley Almost 50% of scholarly articles are now open access in some form. This greatly benefits scholars at most institutions and is especia...