by jzilm | Aug 4, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing & research impact
The Modernist Versions Project is pleased to make available a critical edition of Ernest Hemingway's very scarce first major work, in our time: The 1924 Text and "In Our Time" & "They All Made Peace-What Is Peace?": The 1923 Text. A...
by jzilm | Aug 4, 2015 | Events, Open access, Publishing
Brian Hole from Ubiquity Press will be at the University of Victoria on Friday to talk about models for publishing Open Access Monographs. Brian will give a presentation in McPherson Library, Room 219 from 10-11 this coming Friday August 7th. All are welcome. Feel...
by Katy Nelson | Aug 4, 2015 | Open access, Publishing
Goldsmiths College, University of London, has announced the launch of a new university press. According to the Bookseller website, the press will seek to publish unconventional projects. Although the press is conceived as being “digital-first” in its...
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 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...
