Honest signaling in academic publishing
Authors : Leonid Tiokhin, Karthik Panchanathan, Daniel Lakens, Simine Vazire, Thomas Morgan, Kevin Zollman Academic journals provide a key quality-control mecha...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Publishing at any cost: a cross-sectional study of the amount that medical researchers spend on open access publishing each year
Authors : Mallory K. Ellingson, Xiaoting Shi, Joshua J. Skydel, Kate Nyhan,Richard Lehman, Joseph S. Ross, Joshua D. Wallach Objective To estimate the financial...
Implementing the Global University Publications Licence: a new open scholarship model for advocating change
Authors : Jiafeng Zhou, Ke Wu, Neil Smyth Universities want a voluntary, non-exclusive licence from authors to disseminate publications. This practitioner case ...
Preprints: Their Evolving Role in Science Communication
Authors : Iratxe Puebla, Jessica Polka, Oya Rieger The use of preprints for the dissemination of research in some life sciences branches has increased substanti...
Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals
Authors : Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge product...
‘Nepotistic journals’: a survey of biomedical journals
Authors : Alexandre Scanff, Florian Naudet, Ioana Cristea, David Moher, Dorothy V M Bishop, Clara Locher Context Convergent analyses in different disciplines su...
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?
Authors : Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, David J. Allen, Bas de Bruin, Etienne Derat, Henrik Urdal This academic thought piece provides an overview of the histor...