Open Scholarship Practices Reshaping South Africa’s Scholarly Publishing Roadmap
South African higher education institutions are the largest producers of research output on the African continent. Given this status, South African researchers ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Considering Non-Open Access Publication Charges in the “Total Cost of Publication”
Recent research has tried to calculate the “total cost of publication” in the British academic sector, bringing together the costs of journal subscriptions, the...
The Challenges of Journal Startup in the Digital Era
This paper aims to contribute to the evolving literature on the new landscape of scholarly journals. It builds on a series of experiences as a journal editor wh...
Enjeux de la numérisation des herbiers pour l’information et la communication scientifiques : de la transformation des matières documentaires à l’évolution des pratiques
Nous appréhendons les mutations entraînées par la numérisation des collections d’histoire naturelle dans la production et la communication de l’info...
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...
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...