Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
The role of the library in scholarly publishing: The University of Manchester experience
Author : Simon Bains The emergence of networked digital methods of scholarly dissemination has transformed the role of the academic library in the context of th...
Open Publication, Digital Abundance, and Scarce Labour
Author : Martin Paul Eve This article examines the challenges of labour provision in the open-access online scholarly publishing environment. While the technolo...
‘Predatory’ Open Access Journals as Parody: Exposing the Limitations of ‘Legitimate’ Academic Publishing
Author : Kirsten Bell The concept of the ‘predatory’ publisher has today become a standard way of characterising a new breed of open access journals...
Dissertation to Book? A Snapshot of Dissertations Published As Books in 2014 and 2015, Available in Open Access Institutional Repositories
Authors : Anna Marie Johnson, Tyler Goldberg, Robert Detmering INTRODUCTION Graduate students sometimes express consternation about whether the presence of thei...
Assessing the Openness of Anthropology Journals
Authors : Melody Dale, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Sheeji Kathuria, Mary Ann Jones This study analyses the extent of gold open access (OA) publishing options in 3...
From paper-based towards post-digital scholarly publishing: an analysis of an ideological dilemma and its consequences
Authors : Jarmo Saarti, Kimmo Tuominen Introduction Even though the current publishing model is based on digital dissemination, it still utilizes some of the ba...