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...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
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 ...
Towards a Decentralized Process for Scientific Publication and Peer Review using Blockchain and IPFS
Authors : Antonio Tenorio-Fornés, Viktor Jacynycz, David Llop, Antonio A. Sanchez-Ruiz, Samer Hassan The current processes of scientific publication and peer re...
Is It Such a Big Deal? On the Cost of Journal Use in the Digital Era
Authors : Fei Shu, Philippe Mongeon, Stefanie Haustein, Kyle Siler, Juan Pablo Alperin, Vincent Larivière Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundl...