The Oligopoly of Academic Publishers in the Digital Era
« The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation ...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Evolution or revolution? Publishers’ perceptions of future directions in research communications and the publisher role
« This report presents a snapshot of the views of a wide range of publishers, covering their perceptions of future directions in research communications, schola...
Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth?
« A “mega-journal” is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, ...
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
« This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access busi...
Getting the Word Out Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers
« In the past decade there has been an intense growth in the number of library publishing services supporting faculty and students. Unified by a commitment to b...
Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles
« Although a large body of literature has suggested that doctoral supervisors play an important role in their students’ attempts at scholarly publishing, few st...
Bibliogifts in LibGen? A study of a text-sharing platform driven by biblioleaks and crowdsourcing
Author : Guillaume Cabanac Research articles disseminate the knowledge produced by the scientific community. Access to this literature is crucial for researcher...