« Objective To estimate the financial costs paid by individual medical researchers from meeting the article processing charges (APCs) levied by open access journals in 2019.
Design Cross-sectional analysis.
Data sources Scopus was used to generate two random samples of researchers, the first with a senior author article…
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« Since its onset, COVID-19 has significantly accelerated and expanded scientific publishing. Drawing on research into open peer review in medical journals, Serge P.J.M. Horbach discusses what impact COVID-19 has had on the practice of peer review and what shifting assessment thresholds for academic research on COVID-19 might suggest about the…
« With the growth of open access (OA), the financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become increasingly complex, but comprehensive data and transparency into these flows are still lacking. The opaqueness is especially concerning for hybrid OA, where subscription-based journals publish individual articles as OA if an optional fee is…
« Les lignes directrices pour écrire des articles de recherche sont très utiles, mais les chercheurs ont parfois du mal à identifier la bonne ligne directrice. Des erreurs existent car certaines sont utilisées à mauvais escient pour évaluer des articles. (…) C’est cela qui a conduit les rédacteurs de la revue…
« You have followed the mandate from your funding body and published your prized research in an open access (OA) journal, assuming that it will be publicly available forever. But is long-term storage guaranteed? What happens if your OA journal disappears? Will your article be lost?
A report…
« Scientific writings, as one essential part of human culture, have evolved over centuries into their current form. Knowing how scientific writings evolved is particularly helpful in understanding how trends in scientific culture developed. It also allows us to better understand how scientific culture was interwoven with human culture generally. The…
« Les rédacteurs de eLife viennent de changer la politique de leur revue avec des explications très détaillées (1 décembre 2020). En bref, eLife ne considérera que des manuscrits déposés sous forme de pré-publications. Si les manuscrits soumis n’ont pas été déposés sous forme de pré-publications, la…
« This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether…
« Peer review practices differ substantially between journals and disciplines. This study presents the results of a survey of 322 editors of journals in ecology, economics, medicine, physics and psychology. We found that 49% of the journals surveyed checked all manuscripts for plagiarism, that 61% allowed authors to recommend both for…
