Article processing charges for open access journal publishing: A review
Author : Ángel Borrego Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely available online. This paper reviews literature on art...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Mapping the German Diamond Open Access Journal Landscape
Authors : Niels Taubert, Linda Sterzik, Andre Bruns In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publicati...
Criticizing Paywall Publishing, or Integrating Open Access into Feminist Movement
Authors : Meggie Mapes, Teri Terigele Dominant scholarly publishing models, reliant on expensive paywalls, remain preferential throughout higher education’s lan...
Open(ing) Access: Top Health Publication Availability to Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Authors : John L. Kilgallon, Saumya Khanna, Tanujit Dey, Timothy R. Smith, Kavitha Ranganathan Introduction Improving access to information for health professio...
How are academic libraries in Spanish-speaking Latin America responding to new models of scholarly communication and predatory publishing?
Author : Jairo Buitrago Ciro The topic of predatory publishing and ways to combat it is garnering considerable attention in many parts of the developed world, w...
Who Guards the Gates? Feminist Methods of Scholarly Publishing
Authors : Laura Wildemann Kane, Amanda Licastro, Danica Savonick As demonstrated by recent studies on bias in academic publishing, the traditional tiered system...
Fast, Furious and Dubious? MDPI and the Depth of Peer Review Reports
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri Peer review is a central component of scholarly communication as it brings trust and quality control for ...