Building trust in preprints: recommendations for servers and other stakeholders
Authors : Jeffrey Beck, Christine Ferguson, Kathryn Funk, Brooks Hanson, Melissa Harrison, Michele Ide-Smith, Rachael Lammey, Maria Levchenko, Alex Mendonça, Mi...
Étiquette : open access
The Adoption of Open Access Journals for Publishing Management Research: A Review of the Literature and the Experience of the University of the West Indies
Authors : Haven Allahar, Ron Sookram The article reviews the literature in the field of academic journal publishing highlighting the phenomenon of the recent en...
Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications
Authors : Maria José Sá, Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Ana Isabel Santos, Sandro Serpa At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with t...
Investigating academic library responses to predatory publishing in the United States, Canada and Spanish-speaking Latin America
Authors : Jairo Buitrago-Ciro, Lynne Bowker Purpose This is a comparative investigation of how university libraries in the United States, Canada and Spanish-spe...
A Provisional System to Evaluate Journal Publishers Based on Partnership Practices and Values Shared with Academic Institutions and Libraries
Author : Rachel Caldwell Background Journals with high impact factors (IFs) are the “coin of the realm” in many review, tenure, and promotion decisions, ipso fa...
Stony Brook University Author Perspectives on Article Processing Charges
Authors : Victoria Pilato, Clara Y. Tran INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of Stony Brook University (SBU) author perspectives ...
Emotional Labor in Open Access Advocacy: A Librarian’s Perspective
Author : Elizabeth Beaver Batte Emotional labor has become a hot topic among academics and with good reason. Emotional labor can be invisible to supervisors but...