Blogs selected for Week Oct 31 to Nov 6, 2016
1. Access to Science Research for Everyone The greatest validation of scientific contribution is a peer-reviewed academic publication. But the face of academic publishing is changing as traditional journal publishers have come under attack from proponents of open access, which could change the mode of knowledge distribution in the sciences as we know it, discusses […]
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1. The impact of article processing charges on libraries and what is being done to help Following significant growth in gold open access publishing, Katie Shamash, in her post in The Impact Blog , looks at the available APC data and picks out some key insights. APCs are now an increasingly significant portion of institutions’ […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Oct 17 to Oct 23, 2016
1. Revisiting: The Editorial Fallacy The notion of the “editorial fallacy”, the misconception that all a publisher must focus on is producing high quality material, has popped up recently in several posts. In this post in the Scholarly Kitchen Blog, Joseph Esposito revisits his 2010 post on the disruptive publishing environment, in which publishers cannot […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Oct 10 to Oct 16, 2016
1. A Taxonomy of University Presses Today University presses bring a diversity not only of costs, scale, and business models, but also of organisational capacity, incentives, and objectives. As efforts are mounted to transition monograph publishing to open access, it is vital that we recognise the richness and complexity of this community, notes Roger C. […]
Read moreBlogs selected for Week Oct 3 to Oct 9, 2016
1. Open access to high energy physics assured to 2019 by SCOAP3 Open access publishing is now mainstream in biology and medicine, but it is less popular in the natural sciences. In her post in the BioMed Central Blog, Grace Baynes examines a partnership between CERN and Springer Nature that’s promoting open access publishing in […]
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