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...
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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...
Reflections on the Future of Research Curation and Research Reproducibility
Authors : John Baillieul, Gerry Grenier, Gianluca Setti In the years since the launch of the World Wide Web in 1993, there have been profoundly transformative c...
Understanding the needs of scholars in a contemporary publishing environment: Survey results
Author : PWW Research Team Publishing Without Walls (PWW) is a Mellon-funded initiative at the University of Illinois led by the University Library in partnersh...
Data-Driven Transition: Joint Reporting of Subscription Expenditure and Publication Costs
Authors : Irene Barbers, Nadja Kalinna, Bernhard Mittermaier The transition process from the subscription model to the open access model in the world of scholar...