Equitable Open Access Publishing: Changing the Financial Power Dynamics in Academia. [PDF]
The growth in open access publishing in academia benefits readership but disproportionally hinders unfunded or lesser-funded researchers. Few journals create comprehensive means to bridge these inequities, calling for a shift in academic publishing ...
Vervoort D, Ma X, Bookholane H.
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BDJ Open (2019-2020) and the advantages of open access publishing. [PDF]
BDJ Open is the open access sister journal to the British Dental Journal, and this paper aims to explore the various different articles that BDJ Open has published between 2019 and 2020, in order to highlight which areas authors felt were important to ...
Lewney J.
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Awareness of predatory journals and open access publishing among orthopaedic and trauma surgeons - results from an online survey in Germany. [PDF]
Background Along with emerging open access journals (OAJ) predatory journals increasingly appear. As they harm accurate and good scientific research, we aimed to examine the awareness of predatory journals and open access publishing among orthopaedic and
Maurer E+7 more
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The rise of open source online journals, free online courses, and other changes in the research and education environment, coined the "academic spring" by some commentators, represents an increasing trend in opening up the rules of access for research ...
Amelia Hadfield, Andrej J. Zwitter
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An Open Access Publishing Conference was convened in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 7, 2004, by the libraries of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Emory University. Open Access is an emerging publishing model for peer-reviewed scientific research in which authors and their publishers grant free access to their work as long as the ...
Jocelyn A. Rankin, Sandra G. Franklin
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Behavioral Reluctance in Adopting Open Access Publishing: Insights From a Goal-Directed Perspective. [PDF]
Despite growing awareness of the benefits of large-scale open access publishing, individual researchers seem reluctant to adopt this behavior, thereby slowing down the evolution toward a new scientific culture.
Köster M+5 more
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Publishing at any cost: a cross-sectional study of the amount that medical researchers spend on open access publishing each year. [PDF]
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.
Ellingson MK+6 more
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Publishing habits and perceptions of open access publishing and public access amongst clinical and research fellows. [PDF]
Introduction Open access (OA) publishing rates have risen dramatically in the biomedical sciences in the past decade. However, few studies have focused on the publishing activities and attitudes of early career researchers.
O'Hanlon R, McSweeney J, Stabler S.
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The Oligopoly of Open Access Publishing
Open access (OA) publishing is often viewed as a promising solution for the future of scholarly publishing, as it has the potential to reduce global inequalities in access to scientific literature by removing paywalls. However, the adoption of OA publishing may not necessarily lead to a decrease in the overall cost of knowledge dissemination, as ...
Fei Shu, Vincent Larivière
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Revisiting the Term Predatory Open Access Publishing. [PDF]
https://jkms.org Since the 1990s, scholarly publishing has been transformed from subscription print-based paradigm to an open access and digital publishing model, but this transformation has been accompanied by unethical and predatory publishing ...
Memon AR.
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