Geotechnics: Welcome to A New Open Access Journal for A Growing Multidisciplinary Community

On behalf of the editorial board and MDPI Publishing, may we extend a very warm welcome to this first editorial of Geotechnics—a new and international, open access, scholarly journal aimed at showcasing and nurturing high-quality research and developmental activities in soil and rock engineering and geo-environmental engineering, worldwide [...]

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Negating the Gender Citation Advantage in Political Science

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096517000014 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 50 (02) ◽

pp. 448-455 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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.

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Publisher's Comment

Journal of Biocommunication ◽

10.5210/jbc.v44i1.10607 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary Schnitz

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

High Impact ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Professional Organizations ◽

High Quality ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Quality Research

Welcome to the Journal of Biocommunication issue 44-1. The issue represents our first issue of 2020 and our eighth issue designed for our new mixed publishing format that offers our authors traditional publishing as well as open access options. Our Journal is dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality research, and we accept manuscripts, which are of interest to the broader bioscience community. We welcome authors reporting on their high-impact discoveries, cutting-edge research, and new imaging methodologies. Our professional organizations and the Journal are critical for generating open access content of scholarly, intellectual, and creative merit.

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Negotiating Open Access Journal Agreements: An Academic Library Case Study

Pennsylvania Libraries Research & Practice ◽

10.5195/palrap.2021.252 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 49-61

Author(s):

Mihoko Hosoi

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Best Practices ◽

Case Studies ◽

Academic Libraries ◽

Academic Library ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Scholarly Journal ◽

High Quality ◽

Scholarly Journals

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity for academic libraries to advance open access (OA) to scholarly articles. Awareness among faculty on the importance of OA has increased significantly during the pandemic, as colleges and universities struggle financially and seek sustainable access to high-quality scholarly journals. Consortia have played an important role in establishing negotiation principles on OA journal agreements. While the number of OA agreements is increasing, case studies involving individual libraries are still limited. This paper reviews existing literature on publisher negotiation principles related to OA journal negotiations and reflects on recent cases at an academic library in Pennsylvania, in order to identify best practices in OA journal negotiations. It provides recommendations on roles, relationships, and processes, as well as essential terms of OA journal agreements. This study’s findings are most relevant to large academic libraries that are interested in negotiating with scholarly journal publishers independently or through consortia.

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Prestige and Gatekeeping in Postgraduate Journals: The Case of Postgraduate English

Interscript ◽

10.14324/111.444.2398-4732.1191 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alistair James Brown ◽

Anna-Rose Shack ◽

Douglass Virdee

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

English Studies ◽

High Quality ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Quality Research ◽

Labour Costs ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Prestige

Relatively little has beensaid about the opportunities and challenges of digital, open access publishing asit pertains to postgraduate-led journals catering to postgraduate researchers.This paper draws on the authors’ experiences with Postgraduate English,one of the longest-running, born-digital journals for postgraduate researchersin English studies. It makes the case for the benefit of such publicationswithin the prestige economy and describes the ways in which quality can beassured, challenging those who might see postgraduate publications as furtherdiluting the pool of high-quality research. At the same time, the paper raisescritical questions about who really wins in postgraduate publishing. While thosewho publish and edit can benefit from the prestige indication of theseactivities, ultimately host institutions may gain more from the relationship viathe hidden labour costs behind such activity.

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Editorial Policies and Background in Editing Macedonian Edical Review and Bantao Journal

PRILOZI ◽

10.1515/prilozi-2015-0011 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 81-84

Author(s):

Goce Spasovski

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scientific Work ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Artificial Organs ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Editorial Boards ◽

Scientific Potential ◽

Academic Content

AbstractEven in as small a country as R. Macedonia with limited resources allocated for science, there are many journals trying to establish good editorial practices and policies in publishing the scientific work achieved. Among the currently existing medical journals Macedonian Medical Review (MMR), ISSN 0025-1097, deserves to be elaborated as the oldest journal with continuous publication since its first appearance as the journal of the Macedonian Medical Association (MMA). Since its first issue, published in 1946, there has been an opus of some 4500 peer-reviewed published papers in more than 210 issues and some 80 supplements from various congresses and meetings. In this regard, great respect should be paid not only to the editorial boards, but also to the collaborators who have contributed to its successful continuity in all previous years.In line with the needs for further development of the journal and possibilities for access to world databases, the Editorial Board of MMR has made every effort to improve and modernize its work as well as the technical quality of the journal. Hence, MMA has signed a contract with De Gruyter Open as leading publisher of Open Access academic content for further improvement and promotion of the journal and facilitation of the Medline application, so we do hope for the further success of the journal.BANTAO Journal is published on behalf of the Balkan Cities Association of Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation and Artificial Organs (BANTAO), ISSN 1312-2517. The first issue was published in 2003, ten years after BANTAO was born. Its appearance was an extremely important event in the existence of BANTAO. The first official editor of the journal was Dimitar Nenov, Varna (2003-2005), followed by Ali Basci (Izmir, Turkey) and Goce Spasovski (Skopje, Macedonia) as editor-in-chief since 2009. Over the years, the Journal has been included in the EBSCO, DOAJ and SCOPUS/SCIMAGO databases.The journal is published biannually. Until now, 345 papers have been published in the past 11 years, in 21 regular issues and 3 supplements. It may be said that the journal is the “glue” between the nephrologists from the Balkan cities, reflecting the high quality research and scientific potential of Balkan nephrologists. The entire process of submitting and reviewing the manuscripts is electronically done and after their acceptance they are freely available (open access journal) on the website of the association and the journal: www.bantao.org.In this regard, the current President of BANTAO has already signed a contract with De Gruyter Open as leading publisher of Open Access academic content for further improvement and promotion of the journal and Medline application for the further success of the journal.

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Introduction to the 'IIOAB Letters'

IIOAB Letters ◽

10.5195/iioablett.2011.1 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Vasudeo Zambare ◽

Debmalya Barh

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Knowledge Exchange ◽

Scientific Organization ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Rapid Review ◽

Highly Qualified ◽

High Quality Research ◽

The Right

The Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology (IIOAB), India (www.iioab.webs.com / www.iioab.ac.in) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to provide a global platform for multidisciplinary research and advocacy. Other aspects of the organization are promotion of higher education, R&D, and to serve science, society, and the mankind. To fulfil its mission, IIOAB is now introducing a new open access, preer-reviewed, scientific international journal- the “IIOAB Letters” that will publish articles covering all aspects of biological sciences. The journal is dedicated to students, who are our future, and will provide a platform to all scientific community to publish their articles.The journal is a collaborative effore of IIOAB and University Library Sysltem (ULS), Office of Scholarly Communication, Publishing and Web Services from University of Pittsburgh, USA. for puting their all valuable efforts in successfully launch the journal using Open Journal System (OJS).The journal will publish basic and applied research articles, invited review articles, interviews, letters, reports etc. This journal will also provide a global forum for ethical and business knowledge exchange through publishing papers from all over the world. Another aspect of the journal is rapid review and fast publication. The journal will be indexed in well known indexing agencies soon.As an open access journal, the journal will be highly dynamic and interactive and all article will be available freely immediately after publication. Therefore, all published article will be visible to researchers, teachers, students, and scientific community and industry people without delay.We are simply convinced that this is the right time for introduction of this new journal and we are confident that the IIAOB Letters will be a very successful new launch and will be essential to all scientific community. Comments, suggestions and criticisms are always welcome.Success of any journal depends on strong international and dedicated Editorial Board and fortunately, we have a respectable board consisting of highly qualified personalities from multidisciplinary Biological Science background and from across the geographal regions. During the end of this year, IIOAB Letters also will invite distinguished members for Editorial Board expansion. In the near future our efforts will be focused to increase the publication of high quality research papers and to get a good impact factor as soon as possible. The Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology (IIOAB), India (www.iioab.webs.com / www.iioab.ac.in) is a non-profit scientific organization that aims to provide a global platform for multidisciplinary research and advocacy. Other aspects of the organization are promotion of higher education, R&D, and to serve science, society, and the mankind. To fulfil its mission, IIOAB is now introducing a new open access, preer-reviewed, scientific international journal- the “IIOAB Letters” that will publish articles covering all aspects of biological sciences. The journal is dedicated to students, who are our future, and will provide a platform to all scientific community to publish their articles. The journal is a collaborative effore of IIOAB and University Library Sysltem (ULS), Office of Scholarly Communication, Publishing and Web Services from University of Pittsburgh, USA. for puting their all valuable efforts in successfully launch the journal using Open Journal System (OJS). The journal will publish basic and applied research articles, invited review articles, interviews, letters, reports etc. This journal will also provide a global forum for ethical and business knowledge exchange through publishing papers from all over the world. Another aspect of the journal is rapid review and fast publication. The journal will be indexed in well known indexing agencies soon.As an open access journal, the journal will be highly dynamic and interactive and all article will be available freely immediately after publication. Therefore, all published article will be visible to researchers, teachers, students, and scientific community and industry people without delay. We are simply convinced that this is the right time for introduction of this new journal and we are confident that the IIAOB Letters will be a very successful new launch and will be essential to all scientific community. Comments, suggestions and criticisms are always welcome. Success of any journal depends on strong international and dedicated Editorial Board and fortunately, we have a respectable board consisting of highly qualified personalities from multidisciplinary Biological Science background and from across the geographal regions. During the end of this year, IIOAB Letters also will invite distinguished members for Editorial Board expansion. In the near future our efforts will be focused to increase the publication of high quality research papers and to get a good impact factor as soon as possible.

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τeκτoniκa, a journal for an open future

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-11146 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Mohamed Gouiza ◽

David Fernández Blanco ◽

Clare Bond ◽

Dave McCarthy ◽

Amicia Lee ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Structural Geology ◽

Open Access ◽

Scholarly Work ◽

Open Future ◽

High Quality ◽

High Quality Research ◽

Quality Research ◽

Grass Roots ◽

Internet Publishing ◽

Access To Knowledge

&#964;e&#954;&#964;oni&#954;a is an up-coming community-led diamond open access (DOA) journal, which aims to publish high-quality research in structural geology and tectonics. It is a grass-roots community-driven initiative that relies on the involvement of Earth Scientists from around the globe; that together represent the wide and diverse spectrum of the structural geology and tectonics community.&#160;Beyond the obvious objective of publishing novel research on structural geology and tectonics, it is intended to offer an alternative to traditional publishing models, which hide scholarly work behind exclusive and expensive paywalls. &#964;e&#954;&#964;oni&#954;a is a new addition to the growing set of DOA journals that have appeared in recent years. Along with preprint platforms, data and software repositories, it is part of an expanding movement within academia focused on breaking the barriers inherited from the pre-internet publishing era, to ensure free and open access to knowledge.This contribution aims to showcase the value of this ambitious project as well as our vision for how DOA journals in general (and Tektonika in particular) might shape the future of geoscience publishing.

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