Towards an Interoperable Digital Scholarly Edition
« Recent proposals for creating digital scholarly editions (DSEs) through the crowdsourcing of transcriptions and collaborative scholarship, for the establishme...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Publishing without Publishers: a Decentralized Approach to Dissemination, Retrieval, and Archiving of Data
« Making available and archiving scientific results is for the most part still considered the task of classical publishing companies, despite the fact that clas...
The ‘total cost of publication’ in a hybrid open-access environment: Institutional approaches to funding journal article-processing charges in combination with subscriptions
« As open-access (OA) publishing funded by article-processing charges (APCs) becomes more widely accepted, academic institutions need to be aware of the ‘total ...
Using Crowdsourcing to Evaluate Published Scientific Literature: Methods and Example
« Systematically evaluating scientific literature is a time consuming endeavor that requires hours of coding and rating. Here, we describe a method to distribut...
Rise of the Rest: The Growing Impact of Non-Elite Journals
« In this paper, we examine the evolution of the impact of non-elite journals. We attempt to answer two questions. First, what fraction of the top-cited article...
Data and scholarly publishing: the transforming landscape
« This article sets the scene for the special issue on research data and publishing. Research data – that material commonly accepted by the scholarly community ...
The big picture: scholarly publishing trends 2014
It is important for journal editors to keep up to date with the changes happening in the international journal environment to ensure that their own publications...