Managing your assets in the publication economy
« The issue this article aims to address is the fact that publications may nowadays be used to assess impact and quality of research in ways academics may not b...
Étiquette : Scholarly Publishing
Open Access Versus Traditional Journal Pricing: Using a Simple ‘Platform Market’ Model to Understand Which Will Win (and Which Should)
Economists have built a theory to understand markets in which, rather than selling directly to buyers, suppliers sell through a platform, which controls prices ...
Pay Big to Publish Fast: Academic Journal Rackets
In the context of open-access (OA) academic publishing, the mounting pressure cross global academe to publish or perish has spawned an exponentially growing num...
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing Lessons…
The Enclosure and Alienation of Academic Publishing: Lessons for the Professoriate : « This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspec...
Freedom for scholarship in the internet age …
Freedom for scholarship in the internet age : « Freedom for Scholarship in the Internet Age examines distortion in the current scholarly communication system an...
Open access and development Journals and beyond …
Open access and development : Journals and beyond : « This following report sets out to explore what Open Access means, how it has evolved as a philosophical an...
Digital distribution of academic journals and its impact…
Digital distribution of academic journals and its impact on scholarly communication: Looking back after 20 years : « It has been approximately 20 years since di...