« DOAJ, CLOCKSS Archive, Internet Archive, Keepers Registry/ISSN International Centre et Public Knowledge Project (PKP) ont décidé de s’associer pour proposer une alternative à l’archivage numérique des revues de faible diffusion…
« Stakeholders might have diverging or conflicting expectations about the functions that peer review should fulfil. We aimed to explore how stakeholder groups perceive peer review and what they expect from it. We conducted qualitative focus group workshops with early‐, mid‐, and senior career scholars, editors, and publishers. (…) »
« Clear and findable publishing policies are important for authors to choose appropriate journals for publication. We investigated the clarity of policies of 171 major academic journals across disciplines regarding peer review and preprinting. 31.6% of journals surveyed do not provide information on the type of peer review they use. Information…
« This paper provides an overview of scholarly publication channel lists and contributes with a set of recommendations for the construction and maintenance of national lists of scholarly journals and publishers in order to safeguard a balanced representation. (…)
This study is structured as follows: first, we present an overview…
« Le Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines (CRSH) a accordé trois millions de dollars pour soutenir Coalition Publica, une plateforme nationale bilingue à libre accès. Ce financement permettra d’améliorer considérablement la diffusion internationale des résultats de la recherche en sciences humaines menée au Canada et d’en augmenter le lectorat. (…)
« IWA Publishing, the wholly owned publishing subsidiary of the International Water Association based in London, UK, has announced a pilot to transform its complete journal portfolio of 10 subscription titles including the flagship journal Water Science & Technology to Open Access (OA) from 2021 onwards. In partnership with Knowledge Unlatched, IWA Publishing…
« Les revues en libre accès ne sont pas éternelles : c’est l’argument-choc d’une nouvelle étude importante consacrée aux revues disparues sans avoir été archivées par une institution officielle. (…) »
« The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is launching a new library subscription model for its peer-reviewed basic research journal—Molecular Biology of the Cell—making it the first research journal to experiment with Subscribe to Open (S2O). With S2O, all MBoC readers may have open access in 2021, while the author’s…
« Open Access (OA) publishing, with ambitious movements such as Plan S, is engendering radical changes among academic publishers. Emerging countries need to keep publishing as well as adopt open access to catch up with the changes. Using exclusive data from the Social Sciences & Humanities Peer Awards (SSHPA) database, the…
« New report brings together insights from a survey of scholarly society and university publishers on their current journal production and access approaches and future priorities. (…) »
