Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
Étiquette : open access
Faculty Attitudes toward Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Disciplinary Differences on an Urban and Health Science Campus
Authors : Jere Odell, Kristi Palmer, Emily Dill Access to scholarship in the health sciences has greatly increased in the last decade. The adoption of the 2008 ...
The role of the library in scholarly publishing: The University of Manchester experience
Author : Simon Bains The emergence of networked digital methods of scholarly dissemination has transformed the role of the academic library in the context of th...
New models for open digital collections?
Authors: Paola Marchionni, Peter Findlay This article discusses the potential for new community-based funding models to support digitization and open access (OA...
If funders and libraries subscribed to open access: The case of eLife, PLOS, and BioOne
Authors : John Willinsky, Matthew Rusk Following on recent initiatives in which funders and libraries directly fund open access publishing, this study works ou...
Open Publication, Digital Abundance, and Scarce Labour
Author : Martin Paul Eve This article examines the challenges of labour provision in the open-access online scholarly publishing environment. While the technolo...
‘Predatory’ Open Access Journals as Parody: Exposing the Limitations of ‘Legitimate’ Academic Publishing
Author : Kirsten Bell The concept of the ‘predatory’ publisher has today become a standard way of characterising a new breed of open access journals...