Tag Archives: open access publishing
Here is why scientists do not publish Open Access…
Open Access as a model for publishing research results in the form of a book or article by scholars is becoming more commonplace and more widely accepted by the scientific community. However, despite the many advantages, some scientists are still quite reluctant to publish in Open Access. What are the main reasons for this situation? (here)
Mathematicians aim to take publishers out of publishing
Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals. Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint server arXiv. The project was publicly revealed yesterday in a blog post by Tim Gowers, a Fields Medal winner and mathematician at the University of Cambridge, UK.Nature News.
Open access: why academic publishers still add value
Open access: why academic publishers still add valueAlexander Brown stands up for publishers, justifying their costs and explaining how they help move science forward
The Guardian.
Open Access: ‘we no longer need expensive publishing networks’
Open Access: 'we no longer need expensive publishing networks'Higher education institutions need to recognise the changing world of publishing, says Rupert Gatti – it’s time for academics to take matters into their own hands
The Guardian.
The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing
The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishingA new study shows that the rise of open access publishing of
academic research is faster than anyone had previously realised
The Guardian.
New SpringerOpen Journal: Health & Justice
Health & Justice will be open to submissions from public health, criminology and criminal justice, medical science, psychology and clinical sciences, sociology, neuroscience, biology, anthropology and the social sciences, and cover a broad array of research types. It will publish original research, research notes (promising issues that are smaller in scope), commentaries, and translational notes (possible ways of introducing innovations in the justice system).
Impact factor: researchers should define the metrics that matter to them
Impact factor: researchers should define the metrics that matter to themThe impact factor assumes that the most cited articles are the most influential, but influence is only one aspect of importance
The Guardian