Peer Review Bias: A Critical Review
Authors : Samir Haffar, Fateh Bazerbachi, M. Hassan Murad Various types of bias and confounding have been described in the biomedical literature that can affect...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Is open access affordable? Why current models do not work and why we need internet‐era transformation of scholarly communications
Author : Toby Green Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In...
Networking Social Scholarship…Again
Author : Shawn Martin This paper proposes to answer several questions that arise from the actions of American scientists between 1840 and 1890. How did the broa...
Legal and policy implications of licenses between LIS open access journal publishers and authors : A qualitative case study
Authors : Tomas A. Lipinski, Katie Chamberlain Kritikos “Open access” (“OA”) refers to research placed online free from all price barriers and from most permiss...
Access, preservation and analysis in a consortial journal archive: the evolution of Scholars Portal Journals
Authors : Sabina Pagotto, Wei Zhao This article discusses Scholars Portal Journals (SP Journals), a library consortium-run platform that aggregates and archives...
The effect of publishing peer review reports on referee behavior in five scholarly journals
Authors : Giangiacomo Bravo, Francisco Grimaldo, Emilia López-Iñesta, Bahar Mehmani, Flaminio Squazzoni To increase transparency in science, some scholarly jour...
Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers
Author : Laura Bowering Mullen Scholarly communication and open access practices in psychological science are rapidly evolving. However, most published works th...