Stability and Longevity in the Publication Careers of U.S. Doctorate Recipients
Since the 1950s, the number of doctorate recipients has risen dramatically in the United States. In this paper, we investigate whether the longevity of doctorat...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Comparing Published Scientific Journal Articles to Their Pre-print Versions
Academic publishers claim that they add value to scholarly communications by coordinating reviews and contributing and enhancing text during publication. These ...
A Journal is a Club: A New Economic Model for Scholarly Publishing
A new economic model for analysis of scholarly publishing—journal publishing in particular—is proposed that draws on club theory. The standard approach builds o...
Open peer review : from an experiment to a model. A narrative of an open peer review experimentation
This article narrates the development of the experimentation of an open peer review and open commentary protocols. This experiment concerns propositions of arti...
Access to human, animal, and environmental journals is still limited for the One Health community
Objective “One Health” is an interdisciplinary approach to evaluating and managing the health and well-being of humans, animals, and the environments they share...
On the Marginal Cost of Scholarly Communication
We assessed the marginal cost of scholarly communication from the perspective of an agent looking to start an independent, peer-reviewed scholarly journal. We f...
Big Publishers, Bigger Profits: How the Scholarly Community Lost the Control of its Journals
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. Whi...