Have the “mega-journals” reached the limits to growth?
« A “mega-journal” is a new type of scientific journal that publishes freely accessible articles, which have been peer reviewed for scientific trustworthiness, ...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Disrupting the subscription journals’ business model for the necessary large-scale transformation to open access
« This paper makes the strong, fact-based case for a large-scale transformation of the current corpus of scientific subscription journals to an open access busi...
Apprenticeship in Scholarly Publishing: A Student Perspective on Doctoral Supervisors’ Roles
« Although a large body of literature has suggested that doctoral supervisors play an important role in their students’ attempts at scholarly publishing, few st...
English Writing for International Publication in the Age of Globalization: Practices and Perceptions of Mainland Chinese Academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
« Much scholarly attention has been given to the English writing and publishing practices of the academics in non-Anglophone countries, but studies on such prac...
Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities
« It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis h...
Attention decay in science
« The exponential growth in the number of scientific papers makes it increasingly difficult for researchers to keep track of all the publications relevant to th...
Research data sharing: Developing a stakeholder-driven model for journal policies
« Conclusions of research articles depend on bodies of data that cannot be included in articles themselves. To share this data is important for reasons of both ...