Vanishing industries and the rising monopoly of universities in published research
Authors : Vincent Larivière, Benoit Macaluso, Philippe Mongeon, Kyle Siler, Cassidy R. Sugimoto Anecdotes abound regarding the decline of basic research in indu...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Ethical Concerns in the Rise of Co-Authorship and Its Role as a Proxy of Research Collaborations
Author : Sameer Kumar Increasing specialization, changes in the institutional incentives for publication, and a host of other reasons have brought about a marke...
Scholarly Communication at the Crossroad: From subscription to Open Access?
Author : Gayle R.Y.C. Chan Recent developments in the scholarly communication ecosystem toward open access (OA) have become highly complex in how researchers di...
The Cost of Astronomy Publishing fees in astronomy: Is something rotten in the case of Denmark?
Author : Bertil F. Dorch Using Scopus and national sources, I have investigated the evolution of the cost of publishing in Danish astronomy on a fine scale over...
Les Sciences Humaines et Sociales, moteurs de l’accès ouvert : la preuve par Cybergeo
Auteurs/Authors : Christine Kosmopoulos, Denise Pumain En mai 2016 Cybergeo : Revue européenne de géographie fêtait à l’Auditorium Marie Curie (CNRS, Paris) ses...
Post-publication peer review in biomedical journals: overcoming obstacles and disincentives to knowledge sharing
Authors : Valerie Matarese, Karen Shashok The importance of post-publication peer review (PPPR) as a type of knowledge exchange has been emphasized by several a...
Case for the double-blind peer review
Author : Lucie Tvrznikova Peer review is a process designed to produce a fair assessment of research quality prior to publication of scholarly work in a journal...