Unethical aspects of open access
Authors : David Shaw, Bernice Elger In this article we identify and discuss several ethical problematic aspects of open access scientific publishing. We conclud...
Étiquette : open access
What Value Do Journal Whitelists and Blacklists Have in Academia?
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Panagiotis Tsigaris This paper aims to address the issue of predatory publishing, sensu lato. To achieve this, we offer ou...
Leveraging Concepts in Open Access Publications
Authors : Andrea Bertino, Luca Foppiano, Laurent Romary, Pierre Mounier Aim This paper addresses the integration of a Named Entity Recognition and Disambiguatio...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...
Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
Leveraging Elsevier’s Creative Commons License Requirement to Undermine Embargo
Author : Josh Bolick In the last round of author-sharing policy revisions, Elsevier created a labyrinthine title-by-title embargo structure requiring embargoes ...
The use and perceptions of open Access resources by legal academics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa
Author : Elizabeth Moll-Willard Although access to primary legal materials in South Africa is now easily accessible as a result of the Free Access to Law moveme...