From closed to open access: A case study of flipped journals
Authors : Fakhri Momeni, Nicholas Fraser, Isabella Peters, Philipp Mayr In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access ha...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Let It Flow: The Monopolization of Academic Content Providers and How It Threatens the Democratization of Information
Author : Dana Lachenmayer The monopolization of academic journal publishers concentrates power and valuable information into the hands of a few players in the m...
Data objects and documenting scientific processes: An analysis of data events in biodiversity data papers
Authors : Kai Li, Jane Greenberg, Jillian Dunic The data paper, an emerging scholarly genre, describes research datasets and is intended to bridge the gap betwe...
Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers
Authors : Dal-Ré R., Marušić A. BACKGROUND The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has expressed its concerns about predatory journals us...
A cross sectional study of retraction notices of scholarly journals of science
Authors : Manorama Tripathi, Sharad Kumar Sonkar, Sunil Kumar Retraction is the withdrawal of published article after it is found that the authors did not ensur...
Ten myths around open scholarly publishing
Authors : Jonathan P Tennant, Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Masuz...
Sci-Hub, a challenge for academic and research libraries
Authors : Llarina González-Solar, Viviana Fernández-Marcial Sci-Hub emerged into the field of scientific communication in 2011 as a platform for free access to ...