The effect of bioRxiv preprints on citations and altmetrics
Authors : Nicholas Fraser, Fakhri Momeni, Philipp Mayr, Isabella Peters A potential motivation for scientists to deposit their scientific work as preprints is t...
Étiquette : open access
Library Subscriptions and Open Access: Highlights from the University of California Negotiations with Elsevier
Authors : Cory Tucker, Andrea Wirth, Annette Day On February 28, 2019, the University of California (UC) System announced the cancellation of their $50 million ...
Open access policies of leading medical journals: a cross-sectional study
Authors : Tim S Ellison, Laura Schmidt, Amy Williams, Christopher C Winchester Objectives Academical and not-for-profit research funders are increasingly requir...
« Blacklists » and « whitelists » to tackle predatory publishing : A cross-sectional comparison and thematic analysis
Authors : Michaela Strinzel, Anna Severin, Katrin Milzow, Matthias Egger Background Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its marke...
Ten years of AoB PLANTS the open access journal for plant scientists: inception and progress since 2009
Author : Michael B Jackson AoB PLANTS is a not-for-profit, open access, plant science journal and one of three peer-reviewed journals owned and managed by the A...
Access to Top-Cited Emergency Care Articles (Published Between 2012 and 2016) Without Subscription
Authors : Murad Al Hamzy, Dominique de Villiers, Megan Banner, Hein Lamprecht, Stevan R. Bruijns Introduction Unrestricted access to journal publications speeds...
Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors
Authors : Robert Heaton, Dylan Burns, Becky Thoms More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of surv...