The influence of journal publisher characteristics on open access policy trends
Authors : Elizabeth Gadd, Jenny Fry, Claire Creaser Examines SHERPA/RoMEO publisher open access (OA) policy information for 100 publishers over a 13 year period...
Étiquette : open access
Data-Driven Transition: Joint Reporting of Subscription Expenditure and Publication Costs
Authors : Irene Barbers, Nadja Kalinna, Bernhard Mittermaier The transition process from the subscription model to the open access model in the world of scholar...
Library-Mediated Deposit: A Gift to Researchers or a Curse on Open Access? Reflections from the Case of Surrey
Authors : Christine Antiope Daoutis, Maria de Montserrat Rodriguez-Marquez The University of Surrey was one of the first universities to set up an open access r...
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...
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...