From closed to open access: A case study of flipped journals
Authors : Fakhri Momeni, Nicholas Fraser, Isabella Peters, Philipp Mayr In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access ha...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Let It Flow: The Monopolization of Academic Content Providers and How It Threatens the Democratization of Information
Author : Dana Lachenmayer The monopolization of academic journal publishers concentrates power and valuable information into the hands of a few players in the m...
Data objects and documenting scientific processes: An analysis of data events in biodiversity data papers
Authors : Kai Li, Jane Greenberg, Jillian Dunic The data paper, an emerging scholarly genre, describes research datasets and is intended to bridge the gap betwe...
Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers
Authors : Dal-Ré R., Marušić A. BACKGROUND The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has expressed its concerns about predatory journals us...
Ten myths around open scholarly publishing
Authors : Jonathan P Tennant, Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Masuz...
Who Is (Likely) Peer-Reviewing Your Papers? A Partial Insight into the World’s Top Reviewers
Authors : Francesco Pomponi, Bernardino D’Amico, Tom Rye Scientific publishing is experiencing unprecedented growth in terms of outputs across all fields. Inevi...
Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review
Authors : Samir Haffar, Fateh Bazerbachi, M. Hassan Murad Various types of bias and confounding have been described in the biomedical literature that can affect...