Striving for Modernity: Layout and Abstracts in the Biomedical Literature
Authors : Carlo Galli, Maria Teresa Colangelo, Stefano Guizzardi Most academic journals have a fairly consistent look: they are structured similarly, their text...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Wikimedia and universities: contributing to the global commons in the Age of Disinformation
Authors : Martin Poulter, Nick Sheppard In its first 30 years the world wide web has revolutionized the information environment. However, its impact has been ne...
‘At-risk articles’: the imperative to recover lost science
Author: Jeanette Hatherill Deceptive publishers have been discussed and written about from a multitude of perspectives and in a variety of disciplines, but scan...
Data journals: incentivizing data access and documentation within the scholarly communication system
Author : William H. Walters Data journals provide strong incentives for data creators to verify, document and disseminate their data. They also bring data acces...
University journals. Consolidating institutional repositories in a digital, free, open access publication platform for all scholarly output
Authors : Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer, Eva Méndez Rodríguez, Jeroen Sondervan, Frans J. Oort Funders increasingly mandate researchers to publish their scientifi...
The growth of open access publishing in geochemistry
Authors : Olivier Pourret, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Jonathan P. Tennant, Andrew Hursthouse, Eric D. van Hullebusch In this communication, we look at Open Access (O...
Open access publishers: The new players
Authors : Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues, Ernest Abadal, Breno Kricheldorf Hermes de Araújo The essential role of journals as registries of scientific activity in ...