Issues and discussions related to Scientific Publishing, like the Open Access Publishing Models for journals, Article Processing Charges, the journal Impact Factor system and its impact on science, etc. will be posted and linked here
IHE (Inside Higher Ed)
"The prestige factor propping up academic publishers" by Kathryn Palmer: A federal antitrust lawsuit against a group of megapublishers highlights how academia’s system of rewarding researchers for publishing in certain journals has undermined their leverage. Link
The New Indian Express
"The good, bad & greedy of academic publishing" by John J. Kennedy: The insistence on Scopus-indexed publications as a marker of quality makes academic research much more expensive and marginalises work from poorer regions and institutes. Link
Clarivate: ResearchProfessional News
"Open access: The price of diamond" by Frances Jones: The push for non-profit academic publishing is raising questions about how to pay for it. Link
Hypotheses
"Towards a federated global community of Diamond Open Access" by Pierre Mounier (OpenEdition, OPERAS) & Johan Rooryck (cOAlition S): A discussion paper. Link
El País
"Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with open access" by Manuel Ansede: A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market. Link
Phys.org
"Avalanche of published academic articles could erode trust in science" by Autonomous University of Barcelona: A rapid rise in the number of academic articles being published could undermine public trust in science, warns an international study posted to the arXiv preprint server. Link
Phys.org
"The death of open access mega-journals?" by Justin Jackson: The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication. LinkJune 27, 2017:
The Guardian
"Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?" by Stephen Buranyi: It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell. Link
More links
cOAlition S: The S-Plan: Making full and immediate Open Access a reality. Link
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