Open Science Practices Adopted by Latin American & Caribbean Open Access Journals
Authors : Andre Appel, Ivonne Lujano, Sarita Albagli The objective of this study is to investigate how Open Science (OS) values and practices have influenced op...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Inequality in Knowledge Production: The Integration of Academic Infrastructure by Big Publishers
Authors : Alejandro Posada, George Chen This paper attempts to illustrate the implications of a simultaneous redirection of the big publishers’ business strateg...
Global OA APCs (APC) 2010–2017: Major Trends
Author : Heather Morrison The open access (OA) article processing charges (APC) project is a longitudinal study of the minority of fully OA journals (27% in 201...
Zombie Journals: Designing a Technological Infrastructure for a Precarious Journal
Authors : Daniel Paul O’Donnell, Carey Viejou, Sylvia Chow, Rumi Graham, Jarret McKinnon, Dorothea Morrison, Reed Parsons, Courtney Rieger, Vanja Spirić, Elaine...
A Case Study for a New Peer-Review Journal on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education
Author : Cristobal Salinas Jr. In this exploratory case study, the interests, attitudes, and opinions of participants of the National Conference on Race and Eth...
Prepublication disclosure of scientific results: Norms, competition, and commercial orientation
Authors : Jerry G. Thursby, Carolin Haeussler, Marie C. Thursby, Lin Jiang On the basis of a survey of 7103 active faculty researchers in nine fields, we examin...
Predatory Publishers using Spamming Strategies for Call for Papers and Review Requests : A Case Study
Author : Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor Spam e-mail and calls from the predatory publishers are very similar in purpose: they are deceptive and produce material losse...