Institutional repositories and copyright in Greek academic libraries
Authors : Konstantinos Kyprianos, Ekaterini Lygnou Institutional repositories were created to collect, preserve, and make available the academic institution&rsq...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Characteristics of ‘mega’ peer-reviewers
Authors : Danielle B. Rice, Ba’ Pham, Justin Presseau, Andrea C. Tricco, David Moher Background The demand for peer reviewers is often perceived as disproportio...
The need for accelerated change in diversity, equity and inclusion in publishing and learned societies
Author : Jonathan Roscoe Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for many organizations and institutions, including learned societies. With...
Toward openness and transparency to better facilitate knowledge creation
Author : Simon Mahony Changes in modes of publication over recent decades and moves to publish material freely and openly have resulted in increased amounts of ...
The Rise of Platinum Open Access Journals with Both Impact Factors and Zero Article Processing Charges
Author : Joshua M. Pearce It appears that open access (OA) academic publishing is better for science because it provides frictionless access to make significant...
Surveillance Publishing
Author : Jeff Pooley This essay develops the idea of surveillance publishing, with special attention to the example of Elsevier. A scholarly publisher can be de...
Ask the Editors: Assessing the Publishing Needs of Faculty Editors
Authors : Matthew E. Hunter, Liz Dunne, Camille Thomas, Laura Miller, Devin Soper Introduction This article reports results from a survey of faculty members wit...