Attitudes of North American Academics toward Open Access Scholarly Journals
Authors : Elizabeth D. Dalton, Carol Tenopir, Bo-Christer Björk In this study, the authors examine attitudes of researchers toward open access (OA) scholarly jo...
Étiquette : scientific communication
The fundamental problem blocking open access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project
Authors : Camillo Lamanna, Manfredi La Manna In our view the fundamental obstacle to open access (OA) is the lack of any incentive-based mechanism that unbundle...
Mapping the Publishing Challenges for an Open Access University Press
Authors : Megan Taylor Managing a New University Press (NUP) is often a one-person operation and, with limits on time and resources, efficiency and effectivenes...
Co-citations in context: Disciplinary heterogeneity is relevant
Authors : James Bradley, Sitaram Devarakonda, Avon Davey, Dmitriy Korobskiy, Siyu Liu, Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Tandy Warnow, George Chacko Citation analysis of t...
Intellectual and social similarity among scholarly journals: An exploratory comparison of the networks of editors, authors and co-citations
Authors : Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Mahdi Khelfaoui, Yves Gingras This paper explores, by using suitable quantitative techniques, to what extent the inte...
Defining predatory journals and responding to the threat they pose: a modified Delphi consensus process
Authors : Samantha Cukier, Manoj M. Lalu, Gregory L. Bryson, Kelly D. Cobey, Agnes Grudniewicz, David Moher Background Posing as legitimate open access outlets,...
Does the use of open, non-anonymous peer review in scholarly publishing introduce bias? Evidence from the F1000 post-publication open peer review publishing model
Authors : Mike Thelwall, Verena Weigert, Liz Allen, Zena Nyakoojo, Eleanor-Rose Papas This study examines whether there is any evidence of bias in two areas of ...