open access (OA) journals

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New Resource Aims To Provide Quality Insight Into OA Resources

Sian Harris | Research Information | April 24, 2014

Ever since the concept of open-access journals began gathering steam, the question of journal quality has been an issue for sceptics and advocates alike. It has become a normal part of our daily lives to delete emails inviting submissions to a new open-access journal with obscure origins and questionable relevance to the email recipient.

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Paperity Hopes To Create A Comprehensive Index Of Open Literature

Nancy K. Herther | Information Today, Inc. | November 25, 2014

Paperity, “The first multidisciplinary aggregator of Open Access journals and papers,” launched on Oct. 8. The database currently includes more than 350,000 open access (OA) articles from 2,200-plus scholarly journals that are categorized as either gold (journals that are completely OA cover to cover) or hybrid (subscription journals with some OA articles)...

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University Research: If You Believe In Openness, Stand Up For It

Erin McKiernan | The Guardian | August 22, 2014

Publishing openly provides greater exposure, boosts prospects and can lead to more citations...

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