SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: Mixed Week for Open Access in the U.K.

Science ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 306 (5699) ◽  
pp. 1115a-1115a
Author(s):  
D. Clery
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Publishing

The History and Future of Scientific Publishing

2020 ◽  
pp. 10-33
Author(s):  
Alan Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals

This chapter reviews the development of the modern scientific paper, from the sixteenth century forward, and explores the ways in which scientific information has been disseminated in the past. Great scientific advances of the past are discussed in the context of how they were first published, or otherwise brought to the attention of the broader scientific community, and the modern scientific publishing sector is explored. The types and categories of scientific journals are discussed, along with an overview of current publishing trends, such as the exponential increase in number of journals, changes in the ways in which researchers access the literature, and in particular the emergence and current state of open access journals. In addition, various ways in which journals are ranked are discussed, and key trends in such lists over the last ten years or so explored.

scholarly journals A Crisis in “Open Access”: Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access?

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401987104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbas Ghanbari Baghestan ◽  
Hadi Khaniki ◽  
Abdolhosein Kalantari ◽  
Mehrnoosh Akhtari-Zavare ◽  
Elaheh Farahmand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
The World ◽  
Trend Data ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
The Web

This study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017. A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%) were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of the documents in all 184 categories were open access. While in communication, it was 3.29%, which ranked communication 116 out of 184. An Open Access Index (OAI) was developed to predict the trend of open access in communication. Based on the OAI, communication needs 77 years to fully reach open access, which undeniably can be considered as “crisis in scientific publishing” in this field. Given this stunning information, it is the time for a global call for “open access” by communication scholars across the world. Future research should investigate whether the current business models of publications in communication scholarships are encouraging open access or pose unnecessary restrictions on knowledge development.

scholarly journals E-publishing development and changes in the scholarly communication system

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Nascimento Souto
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Publishing Business

New and alternative scientific publishing business models is a reality driven mostly by the information and communication technologies, by the movements towards the recovery of control of the scientific communication activities by the academic community, and by the open access approaches. The hybrid business model, mixing open and toll-access is a reality and they will probably co-exist with respective trade-offs. This essay discusses the changes driven by the epublishing and the impacts on the scholarly communication system stakeholders' interrelationships (publishers-researchers, publishers-libraries and publishers-users interrelationships), and the changes on the scientific publishing business models, followed by a discussion of possible evolving business models. Whatever the model which evolves and dominates, a huge cultural change in authors' and institutions publishing practices will be necessary in order to make the open access happen and to consolidate the right business models for the traditional publishers. External changes such as policies, rewarding systems and institutions mandates should also happen in order to sustain the whole changing scenario.

scholarly journals Indonesia’s publication: Some facts that you might have missed

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dasapta Erwin Irawan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World

This article shows the current state of Indonesian open access scientific publishing as of 30 Nov 2017. The date is important because it's keep on progressing.--- Last week, after my article was announced as the winner of OpenCon London 2017, I was contacted by AuthorAid and offered to write a guest post. It was a very overwhelming situation, since I plunged myself in the world of open science 3 years ago. Then when I was starting to draft the blog post, there were slight changes about what topic should I be raising. Whether it should be about exploring my journey in open science or the successful rate of submission of the INArxiv preprint server that I had started since 17 Aug 2017 with some colleagues. After a long thought, I choose to cover the strength of Indonesia’s publication by looking at some facts that must have been missed by many, including Indonesian academia and rule makers.

scholarly journals Reflections following the ASAPbio Peer Review conference

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Lidsky
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Scientific Impact ◽  
Publishing Practices

The ASAPbio initiative makes a major call for renovation in scientific publishing in biological sciences. The suggested reforms include open access preprints and a fully transparent review process. If introduced into practice, these changes should result in a dramatic cultural change in scientific publishing, probably making it more predictable and consistent. Innovate ways for evaluation of scientific impact were also discussed during the meeting in February 2018. The aim of this essay is to discuss possible developmental trajectories and a possible strategy of changing publishing practices to make citation-based indexes more reliable, fair and informative and thus to complement the ASAPbio proposals.

scholarly journals The Splendors and Miseries of Open Access Scientific Publishing in Ukraine

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Andriy Novikov
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Publishing

The letter represents the author’s opinion on the reasons and background of the actively developing practice of unconscientious open access scientific publishing, as well as briefly discussing the current condition of academic publishing and indexation in Ukraine.

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