Working with publication technology to make open access journals sustainable
Authors : Marcel Wrzesinski, Patrick Urs Riechert, Frédéric Dubois, Christian Katzenbach Over the last 25 years, scholars around the world have used electronic ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
A Billion Dollar Donation: The Cost, and Inefficiency of, Researchers’ Time Spent on Peer Review
Authors : Balazs Aczel, Barnabas Szaszi, Alex Holcombe Background The amount and value of researchers’ peer review work is critical for academia and publishing....
Self-help for learned journals: Scientific societies and the commerce of publishing in the 1950s
Author : Aileen Fyfe In the decades after the Second World War, learned society publishers struggled to cope with the expanding output of scientific research an...
Ants-Review: A Privacy-Oriented Protocol for Incentivized Open Peer Reviews on Ethereum
Authors : Bianca Trovò, Nazzareno Massari Peer review is a necessary and essential quality control step for scientific publications but lacks proper incentives...
The Most Widely Disseminated COVID-19-Related Scientific Publications in Online Media: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Top 100 Articles with the Highest Altmetric Attention Scores
Authors : Ji Yoon Moon, Dae Young Yoon, Ji Hyun Hong, Kyoung Ja Lim, Sora Baek, Young Lan Seo, Eun Joo Yun The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a gl...
Assessment of transparency indicators across the biomedical literature: How open is open?
Authors : Stylianos Serghiou, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Kevin W. Boyack, Nico Riedel, Joshua D. Wallach, John P. A. Ioannidis Recent concerns about the ...
Attracting new users or business as usual? A case study of converting academic subscription-based journals to open access
Author : Lars Wenaas This paper studies a selection of 11 Norwegian journals in the humanities and social sciences and their conversion from subscription to ope...