Openness in Scholarship: A Return to Core Values?
Author : Cameron Neylon The debate over the meaning, and value, of open movements has intensified. The fear of co-option of various efforts from Open Access to ...
Étiquette : open access
A Bibliometric study of Directory of Open Access Journals: Special reference to Microbiology
Author : K S Savita The present study aim is to determine the number of free e-journal in the field of Microbiology available on DOAJ. For this study the author...
Peer reviewing: a private affair between the individual researcher and the publishing houses, or a responsibility of the university?
Authors : Leif Longva, Eirik Reierth, Lars Moksness, Bård Smedsrød Peer reviewing is mandatory for scientific journals as quality control of submitted manuscrip...
Opening Up Communication: Assessing Open Access Practices in the Communication Studies Discipline
Author : Teresa Auch Schultz Introduction Open access (OA) citation effect studies have looked at a number of disciplines but not yet the field of communication...
Current Status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Case Study
Authors : K. C. Das, Kunwar Singh The present study mainly focuses on the current status of Chinese Open Access Institutional Repositories: A Case Study.The pre...
Offsetting and its discontents: challenges and opportunities of open access offsetting agreements
Author : Liam Earney The growth of open access (OA) via the payment of article processing charges (APCs) in hybrid journals has been a key feature of the approa...
On the origin of nonequivalent states: How we can talk about preprints
Authors : Cameron Neylon, Damian Pattinson, Geoffrey Bilder, Jennifer Lin Increasingly, preprints are at the center of conversations across the research ecosyst...