scholarly journals Open access information as a platform for sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neethu Mohanan ◽  
S. Thanuskodi
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Copyright Holder ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Access Information ◽  
Carry Over

Open Access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions, what make it possible are the internet and the consent of the author or copyright holder. In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can, therefore, consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect, scholars and scientists are very differently situated from most musicians and movie-makers, and controversies about open access to music and movies do not carry over to research literature. Open access is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major open access initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance, just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, journal editors and referees participating in peer review. The study shows that out of 456 respondents considered for the study 203 [44.5%] belongs to Arts, 169 [37.1%] belongs to Science, 33 [7.2%] Education and 51 [11.2%] belongs to Management. The findings of the study also shows that out of 456 respondents considered for the study among which 81 [17.8%] belongs to M. Phil programme, 102 [22.4%] belongs to Ph.D. Programme and 273 [59.9%] are faculty members.

What Exactly Is “Complicated” Grief? A Scoping Research Literature Review to Understand Its Risk Factors and Prevalence

2020 ◽  
pp. 003022282097730
Author(s):  
Donna M. Wilson ◽  
Elizabeth M. Darko ◽  
Elizabeth Kusi-Appiah ◽  
Sophia J. Roh ◽  
Arnel Ramic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Causative Factors ◽  
Scoping Literature Review

Most people will experience bereavement grief, but some suffer from persistent or prolonged (PoP) grief, grief that used to be identified as “complicated” before recent DSM-5 and ICD-11 definitional developments. In 2020, a scoping literature review was undertaken to identify and consolidate contemporary evidence from research articles published in 2018 or 2019 in paper-based and open access peer-review journals on: (a) the incidence or prevalence of PoP grief, and (b) who develops it or is diagnosed as suffering from it, and correspondingly what causative factors or predictors are associated with PoP grief. All of the 11 identified research articles reported an incidence or prevalence rate, with these varying greatly, but with a much higher rate now that a 6-month post-death measurement timeframe is used. The predictors or factors among people who were identified as having PoP grief also varied considerably, although sudden and unexpected deaths were often implicated.

Standards Developments in Scholarly Publishing

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
Virginie Simon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Essential Step ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Traditional Roles ◽  
Detailed Record

Publication is an essential step in research and is the responsibility of all scientists. Scholarly publications should provide a comprehensive and detailed record of scientific discoveries. They affect not only the research community, but society at large. Scientists have a responsibility to ensure that their publications are complete, detailed, clear, honest, balanced, and avoid misleading, selective, or ambiguous statements. Journal editors are also responsible for ensuring the integrity of the research literature. Publishers are adapting their roles in response both to changing needs and to these new competing services that can include researchers, research institutes, universities. Aside from their traditional roles in supporting quality assurance and peer review, publishers participate in many initiatives and develop services, often in partnership with universities and other organisations, to support communication and develops standards. This chapter shows the importance of standards and presents some concrete examples of standards organizations and perpetual evolution.

Open Access to Scholarly Publications and Web Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 669-676
Author(s):  
Jean-Philippe Rennard
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Sir Isaac Newton ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Quality Controls ◽  
Scholarly Publications

“If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” The famous statement of Sir Isaac Newton demonstrates that the progress of science relies on the dissemination of discoveries and scientific knowledge. Even though scientific progress is not strictly cumulative (Kuhn, 1970), information sharing is the heart of this progress. Nowadays, scientific knowledge is mainly spread through scholarly journals, that is, highly specialized journals where quality controls and certifications are achieved through peer-review.

Open access to open publish: National Library of Australia

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodanka (Bobby) Graham
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Successful Outcome ◽  
National Library ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Online Format

Academic and scholarly journals are in trouble: small print runs, part-time editors, and dwindling funds are conspiring to crush them. But help is at hand: new trends in open access publishing support free, digital and open access to research literature, bringing writing and discourse to new and wider audiences. The National Library of Australia has created an Open Publish Web space, using the Open Journal Systems (OJS) digital publishing software to manage, host and deliver an online open access journal service. The Library's objective is to establish "new ways of collecting, sharing, recording, disseminating and preserving knowledge". We want "to ensure our relevance in a rapidly changing world, [by participating] in new online communities". For these reasons, the Library decided to engage in an open access journal publishing trial. This paper outlines the collaboration between the Library and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature to migrate their peer-reviewed journal, JASAL, to an online format. The successful outcome has informed the Library's decision to include Open Publish journals in the Library's collections.

scholarly journals Current market rates for scholarly publishing services

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Björn Brembs
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
Rejection Rates

For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, also the prices for open access publishing are high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels. Here we provide a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. We find that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. These results appear uncontroversial as they not only match previous data using different methodologies, but also conform to the costs that many publishers have openly or privately shared. We discuss the numerous additional non-publication items that make up the difference between these publication costs and final price at the more expensive, legacy publishers.

scholarly journals The Inevitability of Open Access

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 493-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Scholarly Journal ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Scholarly Journals

Open access (OA) is an alternative business model for the publication of scholarly journals. It makes articles freely available to readers on the Internet and covers the costs associated with publication through means other than subscriptions. This article argues that Gold OA, where all of the articles of a journal are available at the time of publication, is a disruptive innovation as defined by business theorist Clayton Christensen. Using methods described by Christensen, we can predict the growth of Gold OA. This analysis suggests that Gold OA could account for 50 percent of the scholarly journal articles sometime between 2017 and 2021, and 90 percent of articles as soon as 2020 and more conservatively by 2025.

scholarly journals Current market rates for scholarly publishing services

F1000Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Björn Brembs
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
Rejection Rates

For decades, the supra-inflation increase of subscription prices for scholarly journals has concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, the prices for open access publishing are also high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels. Here we provide a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. We find that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large-scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. We discuss the additional non-publication items that make up the difference between publication costs and final price.

scholarly journals Investigating the Open Access Experience of Lecturers during Their Teaching from Home

2020 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 15017
Author(s):  
Heriyanto ◽  
Rukiyah ◽  
Lydia Christiani ◽  
Selyna Anggita ◽  
Elvy
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Essential Component ◽  
Humanities Faculty ◽  
Access Information

Open access has become an essential component of spreading and sharing scholarly knowledge. It has become a significant alternative to traditional publishing options. This is because scholarly works such as journal articles, that are available via open access channels, are more likely to be read by the research community. This research investigate how lecturers use open access information to during their online teaching. A qualitative approach will be employed which includes interviews with Humanities Faculty lecturers. The approach is used to explore, interpret and report on the lived experiences of lecturers and to offer insights into their use of using open access information during their teaching from home.

scholarly journals Attitudes toward Open Access, Open Peer Review, and Altmetrics among Contributors to Spanish Scholarly Journals

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Segado-Boj ◽  
Juan Martín-Quevedo ◽  
Juan José Prieto-Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Journals

scholarly journals Assessing the size of the affordability problem in scholarly publishing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Grossmann ◽  
Björn Brembs
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Article ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Rejection Rates

For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this “serials crisis”, open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, also the prices for open access publishing are high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels. Here we provide a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. We find that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. We discuss the additional non-publication items that make up the difference between publication costs and final price.

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