“No comment”?: A study of commenting on PLOS articles
Authors : Simon Wakeling, Peter Willett, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Valerie Spezi, Marc Bonne, Christina Founti, Itzelle Medina Perea Article ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Unethical aspects of open access
Authors : David Shaw, Bernice Elger In this article we identify and discuss several ethical problematic aspects of open access scientific publishing. We conclud...
What Value Do Journal Whitelists and Blacklists Have in Academia?
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Panagiotis Tsigaris This paper aims to address the issue of predatory publishing, sensu lato. To achieve this, we offer ou...
Sustainable open access for scholarly journals in 6 years – the incubator model at Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
Authors : Jeroen Sondervan, Fleur Stigter Key points Humanities and the social science journals need flexible funding models. Pragmatism and collaboration are k...
The future of global research: A case study on the use of scenario planning in the publishing industry
Authors : Samira Rhoods, Anca Babor Key points Scenario planning is fun and engaging and is a good opportunity to revisit your company’s core strengths an...
OpenAPC: a contribution to a transparent and reproducible monitoring of fee-based open access publishing across institutions and nations
Authors : Dirk Pieper, Christoph Broschinski The OpenAPC initiative releases data sets on fees paid for open access (OA) journal articles by universities, funde...
Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...