by Katy Nelson | Jun 15, 2015 | News, Open access, Publishing
The CBC has posted an article about the recent PLoS study on the marketplace dominance of a few large scholarly publishing companies. The article is a readable account of the some of the financial difficulties posed by this model.Some interesting points: -The...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 11, 2015 | News, Publishing
A new study by researchers at l’Université de Montréal, suggests that over 50% of academic publishing is controlled by five companies: Reed-Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis and Sage. The study suggests that market share of...
by Katy Nelson | Jun 11, 2015 | News, Publishing
The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, the second oldest medical journal in the US, has reached an agreement with Elsevier, the scholarly publishing giant. Elsevier will take over publication of the journal in 2016.Read more about it here.
by Katy Nelson | Jun 9, 2015 | Research impact
Scopus, the self-described “largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings”, has announced that it will begin an annual review process in order to maintain quality control over the...
by jzilm | Jan 7, 2015 | News, OA journals, Open access, Publishing
Huff Post | Jason Scmitt | December 23, 2014 “The music business was killed by Napster; movie theaters were derailed by digital streaming; traditional magazines are in crisis mode–yet in this digital information wild west: academic journals and the...
by jzilm | Oct 15, 2014 | Open access, Publishing
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