Scholarly journal publishing in transition: from restricted to open access
Author : Bo-Christer Björk While the business models used in most segments of the media industry have been profoundly changed by the Internet surprisingly littl...
Étiquette : scholarly journals
Transparent, Reproducible, and Open Science Practices of Published Literature in Dermatology Journals: Cross-Sectional Analysis
Authors : J Michael Anderson, Andrew Niemann, Austin L Johnson, Courtney Cook, Daniel Tritz, Matt Vassar Background Reproducible research is a foundational comp...
Attitudes of North American Academics toward Open Access Scholarly Journals
Authors : Elizabeth D. Dalton, Carol Tenopir, Bo-Christer Björk In this study, the authors examine attitudes of researchers toward open access (OA) scholarly jo...
Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations
Authors : Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Mahdi Khelfaoui, Yves Gingras This paper explores, by using suitable quantitative techniques, to what extent the inte...
Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club
Authors : John Hartley, Jason Potts, Lucy Montgomery, Ellie Rennie, Cameron Neylon Much of the argument around reforming, remaking, or preserving the traditions...
APCs – Mirroring the impact factor or legacy of the subscription-based model?
Author : Nina Schönfelder With the ongoing open-access transformation, article processing charges (APCs) are gaining importance as the dominant business model f...
Post-publication peer review in biomedical journals: overcoming obstacles and disincentives to knowledge sharing
Authors : Valerie Matarese, Karen Shashok The importance of post-publication peer review (PPPR) as a type of knowledge exchange has been emphasized by several a...