Decolonizing Scholarly Communications through Bibliodiversity
Authors : Shearer Kathleen, Becerril-García Arianna Diversity is an important characteristic of any healthy ecosystem. In the field of scholarly communications,...
Étiquette : scientific communication
Journal Open Access and Plan S: Solving Problems or Shifting Burdens?
Authors : Shina Caroline Lynn Kamerlin, David J. Allen, Bas de Bruin, Etienne Derat, Henrik Urdal This academic thought piece provides an overview of the histor...
Cite Unseen: Theory and Evidence on the Effect of Open Access on Cites to Academic Articles Across the Quality Spectrum
Authors : Mark J. McCabe, Christopher Snyder Our previous paper (McCabe and Snyder 2014) contained the provocative result that, despite a positive average effec...
The move to open: medical library leadership in scholarly communication
Author : Chris Shaffer Over the years, health sciences librarians have been change agents, leading the charge on issues of importance to the profession and the ...
An intersectional approach to analyse gender productivity and open access: a bibliometric analysis of the Italian National Research Council
Authors : Roberta Ruggieri, Fabrizio Pecoraro, Daniela Luzi Gender equality and Open Access (OA) are priorities within the European Research Area and cross-cutt...
‘Communists of Knowledge’? A case for the implementation of ‘radical open access’ in the humanities and social sciences
Author : Eleanor Masterman Open access (OA) has widely been touted as a ‘radical’ alternative to the traditional scholarly publishing system, which has faced he...
Waiving article processing charges for least developed countries: a keystone of a large-scale open access transformation
Authors : Niels Taubert, Andre Bruns, Christopher Lenke, Graham Stone This article investigates whether it is economically feasible for a large publishing house...