Academic Publishing

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"Predatory" Open-Access Scientific Journals Threaten Academic Reputations

Aimee Hosler | CityTownInfo.com | April 9, 2013

On the World Wide Web where virtually anyone can publish almost anything, it can be difficult to validate the authority of information and sources. Now, as the worlds of traditional scholarly publishing and open access (OA) journals intersect, it may be more difficult than ever. Read More »

#scholarAfrica – Consolidating The African Open Agenda

Michelle Willmers | University World News | August 22, 2014

Open Access has officially gone mainstream. It is now embraced by governments, funders and researchers, and is widely acknowledged as an enabler of knowledge societies...

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5 Academic Publishing Trends To Watch In 2013

George Lossius | Publishing Perspectives | January 21, 2013

2012 was certainly an eventful, some would even say turbulent, year in the unpredictable world of academic publishing. [...] So what can we expect from 2013? Read More »

A Case Study In Closed Access

Adi Kamdar | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) | October 25, 2013

One of the core messages of Open Access Week is that the inability to readily access the important research we help fund is an issue that affects us all—and is one with outrageous practical consequences. Limits on researchers' ability to read and share their works slow scientific progress and innovation. [...] Read More »

A Conversation With BioMed Central’s Cockerill On Open Access Publishing

Abby Clobridge | Information Today, Inc | November 12, 2013

BioMed Central (BMC), one of the leading open access (OA) and STM publishers, announced in mid-September that Matthew Cockerill, managing director, would be leaving the company at the end of the year. BMC was founded in 2000 and was acquired by Springer Science+Business Media in 2008. Last month, I had a chance to sit down with Cockerill to talk about some of his experiences with OA and STM publishing. Read More »

A Couple Of Open Access Week Events

Eric Lease Morgan | Days in the Life of a Librarian | November 17, 2012

A couple of Open Access Week events were sponsored here at Notre Dame on October 31, and this posting summarizes my experiences. Read More »

A New Science Blogging Scandal: Deja Vu All Over Again

David Crotty | The Scholarly Kitchen | October 17, 2013

In something of a blast from the past, the world of science blogging reared up in collective anger over Scientific American’s censorship of a controversial post from a paid blogger, written in response to some awful behavior from a representative of one of SciAm’s business partners... Read More »

A Troubling Result From Publishing Open Access Articles With CC-BY

Christina Hendricks | You're The Teacher | August 31, 2013

For week four of the Why Open? course, we are looking at potential benefits of openness, as well as potential problems with it. There are many, many interesting stories and case studies listed on that part of the course, and I’m still working through looking at them (I’m interested in them all!). Read More »

A Victory for Open Access

Staff Writer | The Hindu | May 2, 2012

Harvard University's decision to ask faculty members to make their papers available in the university's open-access repository and choose open-access journals or those with reasonable subscription costs is a sign that the movement for affordable research is gaining ground. Read More »

AAAS Launches Open-Access Journal

David Malakoff | Science | February 12, 2014

Joining a herd of other scientific societies, today AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) announced that it will launch the organization’s first online, fully open-access journal early next year. The new journal, called Science Advances, will give authors another outlet for papers that they are willing to pay to make immediately free to the public. Read More »

Academic Journals: The Most Profitable Obsolete Technology In History

Jason Schmitt | The Blog | 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 publishers who own them are posting higher profits than nearly any sector of commerce...

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Academic Paywalls Mean Publish And Perish

Sarah Kendzior | Aljazeera | October 2, 2012

On July 19, 2011, Aaron Swartz, a computer programmer and activist, was arrested for downloading 4.8 million academic articles. The articles constituted nearly the entire catalogue of JSTOR, a scholarly research database. Universities that want to use JSTOR are charged as much as $50,000 in annual subscription fees. Read More »

Academic Publisher Versita Launches Open Access Book Series With Inaugural Title By Oleg Tarnopolsky

Press Release | EurekAlert! | January 23, 2013

Understanding that books continue to play a vital role as educational materials for students and practitioners, Versita is committed to bringing back the academic monograph alongside more equitable distribution of knowledge Read More »

Academic Publishers Have Become The Enemies Of Science

Mike Taylor | The Guardian | January 16, 2012

The US Research Works Act would allow publishers to line their pockets by locking publicly funded research behind paywalls Read More »

Academic Spring: How an Angry Maths Blog Sparked a Scientific Revolution

Alok Jha | The Guardian | April 9, 2012

Alok Jha reports on how a Cambridge mathematician's protest has led to demands for open access to scientific knowledge. Read More »