Is Predatory Publishing a Real Threat? Evidence from a Large Database Study
Authors : Marcelo Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato, Denis Borenstein Using a database of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals, the...
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Supporting Open Access at Kent—New Staff Roles
Authors : Rosalyn Bass, Sarah Slowe Open Access has been supported at the University of Kent from an early stage with the establishment of the Kent Academic Rep...
The World’s Approach toward Publishing in Springer and Elsevier’s APC-Funded Open Access Journals
Authors : Hajar Sotudeh, Zahra Ghasempour Purpose The present study explored tendencies of the world’s countries—at individual and scientific development levels...
Converting the Literature of a Scientific Field to Open Access through Global Collaboration: The Experience of SCOAP3 in Particle Physics
Authors : Alexander Kohls, Salvatore Mele Gigantic particle accelerators, incredibly complex detectors, an antimatter factory and the discovery of the Higgs bos...
Openness as Tool for Acceleration and Measurement: Reflections on Problem Representations Underpinning Open Access and Open Science
Author : Jutta Haider Increasingly open access emerges as an issue that researchers, universities, and various infrastructure providers, such as libraries and a...
Engaging and Supporting a University Press Scholarly Community
Authors : Megan Taylor, Kathrine S. H. Jensen In this paper we explore how the development of The University of Huddersfield Press, a publisher of open access s...
Clearing the garden: ScholarlyHub as a new non-profit digital commons
Authors : April Hathcock, Guy Geltner Open scholarly communications are being suffocated by for-profit and large-scale academic publishers on the one hand and u...