« Knowledge Exchange (KE) invites any platforms working in open access, publishing and communication who wishes to be included in a KE taxomomy of Alternative Publishing Platforms to answer this call for entries.
The call is part of a
« The scholarly publishing landscape tends to be dominated by large corporate publishers that publish the majority of academic research. However, smaller publishers play a key role in scholarly communication. They offer vital channels of communication for specific disciplines. Additionally, they provide academics who have a particular regional, cultural, linguistic or…
« Cet appel a été élaboré par un collectif français représentatif des chercheurs et des professionnels de l’édition scientifique regroupés notamment au sein des segments « open access » et « édition scientifique publique » de la BSN (Bibliothèque scientifique numérique).
Il s’adresse aux communautés scientifiques et aux établissements de…
« The study aims to investigate the relationships between consumption of e-journals distributed by Elsevier ScienceDirect platform, publication (articles) and impact (citations) in a sample of 13 French universities, from 2003 to 2009. It adopts a value perspective as it questions whether or not publication activity and impact are…
« The way science and research is done is rapidly becoming more open and collaborative. The traditional way of publishing new findings in journals is becoming increasingly outdated and no longer serves the needs of much of science.
Whilst preprints can bring significant benefits of removing delay…
« This article reviews the ways through which subscription-based scholarly journals have converted to open access. The methodology included a comprehensive literature review of both published and ‘grey’ literature, such as blog posts and press releases.
Eight interviews were also conducted with stakeholders representing different parts of…
« Based on three decades of citation data from across scientific fields of science, we study trends in impact factor biased self-citations of scholarly journals, using a purpose-built and easy to use citation based measure. Our measure is given by the ratio between i) the relative share of journal…
« Why has the rise of the Internet – which drastically reduces the cost of distributing information – coincided with drastic increases in the prices that academic libraries pay for access to scholarly journals?
This study argues that libraries are trapped in a collective action dilemma as…
« Open Access (OA) is nowadays increasingly being used as a business model for the publishing of scholarly peer reviewed journals, both by specialized OA publishing companies and major, predominantly subscription-based publishers.
However, in the early days of the web OA journals were mainly founded by independent…
