The cost of reading research. A study of Computer Science publication venues
What does the cost of academic publishing look like to the common researcher today? Our goal is to convey the current state of academic publishing, specifically...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing
« Public access to publicly funded research » has been one of the rallying calls of the global open access movement. Governments and public institutions around ...
A new scholar’s perspective on open peer review
This article argues that the pedagogical and scholarly benefits of open peer review far outweigh those of traditional double-blind peer review, but require a sh...
International dissemination of evidence-based practice, open access and the IACAPAP textbook of child and adolescent mental health
Dramatic changes have occurred in both publishing and teaching in the last 20 years stemming from the digital and Internet revolutions. Such changes are likely ...
Beyond Open Access to Open Publication and Open Scholarship
This article explores a moment of opportunity to imagine a new humanities scholarship based on radical openness, beyond the level of access to scholarly content...
Wikipedia and the ecosystem of knowledge
Thanks to a vibrant community united by a few core principles, plus detailed policies and safeguards against trolls and vandalism, Wikipedia has already become ...
Making Open Access work: The “state-of-the-art” in providing Open Access to scholarly literature
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publis...