The cost of reading research. A study of Computer Science publication venues
What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing, specifically...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
The implications of the new UK Open Access policies on the ownership of copyright in academic publishing
The issue of who owns the copyright in works produced by academics during employment is not new. The practice is that academics, as authors – copyright cr...
Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publis...
The quandary between communication and certification
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship ...
Open Access Publishing, academic research and scholarly communication
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the difference between Open Access and accessibility, to argue that accessibility is the most crucial feature, a...
Publier : à quel prix ? Étude sur la structuration des coûts de publication pour les revues françaises en SHS
La publication d’articles dans des revues scientifiques est un enjeu fort pour les institutions de recherche françaises car il s’agit bien d’un vecteur essentie...
‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics
Background A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers an...