Tag Archives for Open Access
Is predatory scientific publishing “becoming an organized industry”?
Renewed media attention focuses especially on the problems for biomedicine. Read More
Open Access and Predatory Publishing
Online connection is the fabric of contemporary life. We are all aware that the Internet and World Wide Web provide extraordinarily dynamic and virtually instantaneous options for communication and access to information. Scientific publication has kept abreast of this trend, … Continue reading
False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals
The aim of this study was to review and discuss predatory open access publishing in the context of nursing and midwifery and develop a set of guidelines that serve as a framework to help clinicians, educators and researchers avoid predatory … Continue reading
Where is scientific publishing heading?
The scientific publication industry is undergoing dramatic changes. The number of journals continues to increase, competing for the best papers, as evidenced by the large number of invitations we receive. With many journals remaining in the traditional format, relying on … Continue reading
Springer Nature published a white paper The OA effect: How does open access affect the usage of scholarly books?
This report presents the first major comparative analysis of usage data for OA and non-OA scholarly books, and provides an informed view of how a book benefits from OA publication. It also highlights the challenges involved in measuring the impact … Continue reading
Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?
Open Access (OA) publishing is continuing to grow. Based on our most recent research and analysis, Delta Think estimates the OA market at approximately $470M in 2016, up from $390M in 2015. It is also no secret that OA volume … Continue reading
Redesigned eScholarship site launches
The Publishing group at the California Digital Library announced the launch of a major redesign of the eScholarship repository and publishing platform. eScholarship serves as the Open Access repository for the University of California system, offering tools and services to … Continue reading
Canadian Developments in Open Scholarship
This set of presentation slides by the McMaster University Library summarise the recent happenings and developments of Open Access across Canadian Universities. Read More
Library Publishing and the University Press in the United States and Germany: Lessons from Two Academic Contexts for Sustaining the Scholarly Book
Many academic libraries have embraced an active publishing role in recent years, an important component in libraries’ efforts to address mounting pressures throughout the scholarly communications cycle. Libraries in the United States and Germany have been especially assertive in this … Continue reading
Open Access Research Via Collaborative Educational Blogging: A Case Study from Library & Information Science
This article charts the development of activities for online graduate students in library and information science. Project goals include helping students develop competencies in understanding open access publishing, synthesizing research in the field, and engaging in scholarly communication via collaborative … Continue reading