by Katy Nelson | Jul 29, 2015 | OA journals, Open access, Publishing
Predatory open access publishing is a model where journals charge publication fees and provide minimal peer review or quality control for their authors. The term “predatory publishing” was popularized by Jeffrey Beall, librarian at the University of...
by Katy Nelson | Jul 27, 2015 | Open access, Research impact
Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Knowledge Lab have been exploring how Wikipedia cites academic research, in order to assess the quality and type of material used by Wikipedia contributors. Their findings suggest that “controlling for field and...
by Katy Nelson | Jul 21, 2015 | News, OA policies & mandates, Open access
Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a crown corporation that supports research in developing countries, has brought in an open access policy. In an article written on Biomed Central’s blog, Naser Faruqui, the IDRC’s Director of...
by Katy Nelson | Jul 14, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
Science Europe, an association of European scientific funding bodies, has recently released a paper advocating for deposition of scholarly research into publically run, open access digital repositories. A short discussion of the key points of the paper, The Need for...
by Katy Nelson | Jul 7, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
According to a recent article from the Times Higher Education, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) is planning to ask Dutch editors of Elsevier journals to step down from their positions in order to put pressure on the publisher while the...
