scholarly journals The Open Access Interviews: Sir Timothy Gowers and Clifford Lynch

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Poynder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Print Version ◽  
The Past ◽  
Discrete Analysis ◽  
Scholarly Publisher ◽  
First Interview

This is a print version of two interviews I posted on my blog in 2016 as part of a series entitled The Open Access Interviews. The first interview is with Cambridge mathematician Sir Timothy Gowers. In 2012 Gowers called for a boycott of the scholarly publisher Elsevier, and in 2106 he started an overlay journal called Discrete Analysis to demonstrate that a high-quality mathematics journal could be inexpensively produced outside of the traditional academic publishing industry. The second interview is with Clifford Lynch, the director of the Washington-based Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). This interview covers the past, present and possible futures of the Institutional Repository (IR). Both interviews are preceded with a lengthy introduction. I have also included in this booklet my response to some of the comments the interview with Clifford Lynch sparked.

scholarly journals Reforming Science Publishing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Khaled Moustafa
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Peer Review Process ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals

Over the past few years, different changes have been introduced into the science publishing industry. However, important reforms are still required at both the content and form levels. First, the peer review process needs to be open, fair and transparent. Second, author-paid fees in open access journals need to either be removed or reconsidered toward more affordability. Third, the categorization of papers should include all types of scientific contributions that can be of higher interest to the scientific community than many mere quantitative and observable measures, or simply removed from publications. Forth, word counts and reference numbers in online open access journal should be nuanced or replaced by recommended ranges rather than to be a proxy of acceptance or rejection. Finally, all the coauthors of a manuscript should be considered corresponding authors and responsible for their mutual manuscript rather than only one or two.

scholarly journals Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 (02) ◽  
pp. 448-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Atchison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
High Quality Research ◽  
Quality Research ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Considerable Research ◽  
Citation Advantage

ABSTRACTOpen-access (OA) advocates have long promoted OA as an egalitarian alternative to traditional subscription-based academic publishing. The argument is simple: OA gives everyone access to high-quality research at no cost. In turn, this should benefit individual researchers by increasing the number of people reading and citing academic articles. As the OA movement gains traction in the academy, scholars are investing considerable research energy to determine whether there is an OA citation advantage—that is, does OA increase an article’s citation counts? Research indicates that it does. Scholars also explored patterns of gender bias in academic publishing and found that women are cited at lower rates in many disciplines. Indeed, in many disciplines, men enjoy a significant and positive gender citation effect (GCE) compared to their female colleagues. This article combines these research areas to determine whether the OA citation advantage varies by gender. Using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) tests, the nonparametric analog to the independent samples T-test, I conclude that OA benefits male and female political scientists at similar rates. Thus, OA negates the gender citation advantage that typically accrues to male political scientists.

scholarly journals The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Weedon
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Public Sociology ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Sociology Of Sport ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Absolute Transition

The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unprecedented opportunities for redressing the restrictive terms of ownership and access currently perpetuated within an increasingly untenable journal publishing industry. Through this article, I advocate that the sociology of sport community hastens to question, challenge and reimagine its position within this industry in anticipation of a reformed publishing landscape. The impetus for the paper is to ask not whether sociologists of sport should or should not publish open access, but rather as open access publishing inevitably comes to pass in some form, what say will the field’s associations, societies and members have in these changes, and how might they help invigorate a public sociology of sport?

scholarly journals Academic publishing empires need to go

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joona Lehtomäki ◽  
Johanna Eklund ◽  
Tuuli Toivonen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Large Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Conservation ◽  
Academic Imperialism ◽  
Current Guidelines

In response to the editorial “Open access and academic imperialism” by Burgman (2018) and signed by a large group of editors, we wish to express our disappointment with such a narrow and misleading interpretations of the recent attempts to make academic publishing more open, and what consequences this might have for the global conservation community. We highlight that the current guidelines of Plan S are open for comment until Feb 1st 2019 (see https://www.coalition-s.org/feedback). Instead of calling for a more nuanced approach – something that has been done for the past 20 years – we encourage everyone to actively participate in factoring in the nuances.

scholarly journals A Peer-To-Peer Publication Model on Blockchain

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imtiaz Khan ◽  
Ali Shahaab
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Sharp Rise ◽  
Music Publishing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Revenue Collection ◽  
Authorship Credit ◽  
Smart Contract

In the past few decades, there has been a sharp rise of research irreproducibility and retraction, to a point that now is deemed as a crisis. Addressing this crisis, we present a peer-to-peer (P2P) publication model that utilizes blockchain and smart contract technologies. Focusing primarily on researchers and reviewers, the conceptual P2P publication model addresses the sociocultural and incentivization aspects of the irreproducibility crisis. In the P2P publication model, instead of a complete publication, a preapproved experimental design will be published on an incremental basis (unit-by-unit) and authorship will be shared with reviewers. The concept of the P2P publication model was inspired by the transformational journey the music publishing industry has undertaken as it traverses through vinyl age (complete albums) to the Spotify age (single-by-single), where there is a growing inclination among artists toward building an incremental album, taking account of feedback from fans and utilizing automated revenue collection and sharing systems. The ability to publish incrementally through the P2P publication model will relieve researchers from the burden of publishing complete and “good results” while simultaneously incentivizing reviewers to undertake rigorous review work to gain authorship credit in the research. The proposed P2P publication model aims to transform the century-old publication model and incentivization structure in alignment with open access publication ethos of the 21st century.

scholarly journals What Do Publishers Know?

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-520
Author(s):  
Casey Brienza
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Case Scenario ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Short Contribution ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The One ◽  
Better Than

In this short contribution to the open access debate, I will draw upon my expertise as a sociologist who has studied the publishing industry to argue that publishers do in fact have knowledge that is absolutely critical to an informed understanding of open access and how it may be successfully implemented. After providing an overview of who publishers are and what motivates them, along with some of often little-understood complexities of the academic publishing industry, I focus upon the one important thing that publishers understand very well—and far better than most academics—how publishing is funded. I then discuss why collaboration, not competition, between publishers and academics is the only real way forward and conclude with a warning to fellow academics that casually dismissing their potential contribution is both counterproductive and, in the worst case scenario, may threaten the future flourishing of our profession.

scholarly journals Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Societies in 2019

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Societies Editorial Office
Keyword(s):  
Peer Review ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Past

Rigorous peer-review is the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing. The editorial teamgreatly appreciates the reviewers who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the journal’seditorial process over the past 12 months. [...]

scholarly journals Open access journals in educational technology: Results of a survey of experienced users

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross A. Perkins ◽  
Patrick R. Lowenthal
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational Technology ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Open Access Journals

As the academic publishing industry evolves, there has been an unprecedented growth of open access journals (OAJs). In educational technology alone, with an estimated 270 associated journals, nearly one-third are designated as open. Though OAJs are lauded for what their availability can contribute to social justice issues (reduction of subscription requirement barriers), some remain suspicious of the content found in them and question the legitimacy of publishing in them. In this study, we sought to discover the opinions of educational technology scholars about OAJs in their own field. We were able to learn which OAJs were deemed to be most valuable, as well as the characteristics of OAJs thought to be particularly important.

scholarly journals Open access to Construction IT research articles – developments over the past 25 years

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Bo-Christer Björk
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

The Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), was founded in 1996, using the new innovative open access business model enabled by the World wide web. A quarter century later Open Access (OA) journals have established themselves in all fields of science, in particular in biomedicine, so that around a fifth of all high quality peer reviewed articles are currently published in OA journals. In building and construction there are half a dozen active full OA journals, although ITcon remains the only one dedicated specifically to construction IT research. The development of OA has been slower than anticipated in the early years. An analysis using Michael Porter’s five forces model of the competitive environment of scholarly publishing helps to highlight the reasons for this. Particularly important as a barrier to change is the strong emphasis in academic evaluations on impact factors, which favors old established journals. Despite such hurdles OA continuously grows in importance and pioneering journals like ITcon have helped to pave the way.

scholarly journals Editorial

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Dawn Ad�s ◽  
Fiona Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Online Journal ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
Cultural Interest ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal ◽  
Research And Policy

Welcome to the start of the 2021 volume (Volume 9) of the Journal of the British Academy, our multi- and interdisciplinary journal publishing articles in the humanities and social sciences. It was in 2013 that the British Academy added to its academic publishing portfolio �an open access online journal that would meet the expectations of modern scholars and be more easily available for new readerships�. The Journal of the British Academy has continued the tradition of publishing articles drawn from the Academy�s own programme of lectures. But in the last few months of 2020 the Journal extended its range of content to include important contributions on the COVID-19 pandemic drawn from other Academy research and policy programmes. These articles demonstrate the expanded vision that we now have for the Journal of the British Academy. We are looking to strengthen the Journal as a platform for high-quality informed comment by scholars working in the humanities and social sciences, on matters of political, social and cultural interest. It will tap new and exciting thinking and research. It will provide space for reflection on current scholarship, and the exploration of new areas. It will highlight the international range of the British Academy�s interests.

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