scholarly journals Development of Disruptive Open Access Journals

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Terry Anderson ◽  
Brigette McConkey
Keyword(s):  
Distance Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Review Section ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
On Line

Open access (OA) publication has emerged, with disruptive effects, as a major outlet for scholarly publication. OA publication is usually associated with on-line distribution and provides access to scholarly publications to anyone, anywhere–regardless of their ability to pay subscription fees or their association with an educational institution. The article overviews the growth and impact of OA publication in Canada and elsewhere. The article also presents a case study of the evolution over its first nine years of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Education (IRRODL). IRRODL has become the most widely read and widely cited journal in the distance education and open learning community, yet it continues to struggle for recognition by some academics, funding, and rating organizations. In this article IRRODL’s editors document the challenges involved in leading the charge for equal support for open access journals from Canada’s research funding organizations and for review and accreditation from commercial and non-commercial review services. In its literature review section the article looks at scholarly works documenting and comparing on-line journals to ones that publish in paper only, or in which access is restricted behind the walls of licensed use.   The article also documents issues related to various innovations, including production of articles in both text and audio formats, and the challenges of incorporating more interactive media into a scholarly, peer- reviewed journal. Data is produced demonstrating the ways in which 72 CJHE / RCES Volume 39, No. 3, 2009 influence and impact for open access journals can be measured, including hit rates and citations reference data from Google Scholar. The article concludes with a description and discussion of the advantages and challenges of using review and publication management tools such as Open Journal System in the production of open access journals.  

scholarly journals Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Maria José Sá ◽  
Carlos Miguel Ferreira ◽  
Ana Isabel Santos ◽  
Sandro Serpa
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Open Review ◽  
Different Levels

At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with the inevitability of Open Access and the ease of publishing online at low cost, it is possible to find publications with different levels of scientific respectability. In this context, the improvement of the quality of scholarly publications emerges as a critical element for publishers, authors and academic institutions, as well as for society in general. This opinion piece discusses Open Access journals with different levels of quality, focusing on the following quality-promoting measures: blacklists, author’s preparation, and institutional prevention. The analysis allows concluding that the open review will be one of the key elements in the process of clarification and promotion of the level of quality and consequent scientific respectability of each of the Journals, of the thousands currently existing, a number that is likely to increase.

scholarly journals The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Beall
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Research Misconduct ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Authentic Science ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Press ◽  
Predatory Publishers

While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making scholarly content open-access, its true motives are much different. The OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement that wants to deny the freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. The movement is also actively imposing onerous mandates on researchers, mandates that restrict individual freedom. To boost the open-access movement, its leaders sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and those from developing countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality open-access journals. The open-access movement has fostered the creation of numerous predatory publishers and standalone journals, increasing the amount of research misconduct in scholarly publications and the amount of pseudo-science that is published as if it were authentic science.

scholarly journals The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Beall
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Research Misconduct ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
Individual Freedom ◽  
Authentic Science ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Press ◽  
Predatory Publishers

While the open-access (OA) movement purports to be about making scholarly content open-access, its true motives are much different. The OA movement is an anti-corporatist movement that wants to deny the freedom of the press to companies it disagrees with. The movement is also actively imposing onerous mandates on researchers, mandates that restrict individual freedom. To boost the open-access movement, its leaders sacrifice the academic futures of young scholars and those from developing countries, pressuring them to publish in lower-quality open-access journals. The open-access movement has fostered the creation of numerous predatory publishers and standalone journals, increasing the amount of research misconduct in scholarly publications and the amount of pseudo-science that is published as if it were authentic science.

scholarly journals “Worth(less) papers” – are journal impact factor and number of citations suitable indicators to evaluate quality of scientists?

2018 ◽  
Vol XVI (2) ◽  
pp. 369-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Racz ◽  
Suzana Marković
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Impact Factor ◽  
Journal Impact Factor ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
On Line ◽  
Number Of Citations ◽  
Journal Impact

Technology driven changings with consecutive increase in the on-line availability and accessibility of journals and papers rapidly changes patterns of academic communication and publishing. The dissemination of important research findings through the academic and scientific community begins with publication in peer-reviewed journals. Aim of this article is to identify, critically evaluate and integrate the findings of relevant, high-quality individual studies addressing the trends of enhancement of visibility and accessibility of academic publishing in digital era. The number of citations a paper receives is often used as a measure of its impact and by extension, of its quality. Many aberrations of the citation practices have been reported in the attempt to increase impact of someone’s paper through manipulation with self-citation, inter-citation and citation cartels. Authors revenues to legally extend visibility, awareness and accessibility of their research outputs with uprising in citation and amplifying measurable personal scientist impact has strongly been enhanced by on line communication tools like networking (LinkedIn, Research Gate, Academia.edu, Google Scholar), sharing (Facebook, Blogs, Twitter, Google Plus) media sharing (Slide Share), data sharing (Dryad Digital Repository, Mendeley database, PubMed, PubChem), code sharing, impact tracking. Publishing in Open Access journals. Many studies and review articles in last decade have examined whether open access articles receive more citations than equivalent subscription toll access) articles and most of them lead to conclusion that there might be high probability that open access articles have the open access citation advantage over generally equivalent payfor-access articles in many, if not most disciplines. But it is still questionable are those never cited papers indeed “Worth(less) papers” and should journal impact factor and number of citations be considered as only suitable indicators to evaluate quality of scientists? “Publish or perish” phrase usually used to describe the pressure in academia to rapidly and continually publish academic work to sustain or further one’s career can now in 21. Century be reformulate into “Publish, be cited and maybe will not Perish”.

scholarly journals Periódicos em acesso aberto na área do direito

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Kelly Ayanna Peters Barros Duarte ◽  
Rosângela Schwarz Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line ◽  
Online Format ◽  
The Impact

A repercussão das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (TICs) viabiliza mudanças nos periódicos digitais. O Movimento de Acesso Aberto promove a socialização do conhecimento científico ao permitir o acesso irrestrito aos conteúdos disponíveis em formato on-line. Uma avaliação dos periódicos surge da necessidade de se refletir a qualidade da informação registrada. Este artigo analisa os periódicos científicos de acesso aberto na área do Direito, classificados nos estratos A2, B1, B2 e B3 pelo Qualis/CAPES (Ano-Base 2007) quanto ao atendimento aos padrões da normalização. O método caracteriza-se pela pesquisa exploratória, descritiva, documental e por análise quanti-qualitativa. Dos sessenta e três periódicos identificados nos estratos mencionados, onze são em acesso aberto. Foi elaborada uma Lista de Verificação para Periódicos em Acesso Aberto com base na literatura e identificou-se que apenas os indicadores título e subtítulo do periódico, ferramenta de busca, instituição, título e subtítulo do artigo e autores apresentaram cem por cento de atendimento aos critérios. Conclui que a ausência de padrões, normas e critérios em publicações periódicas de acesso aberto interferem na disseminação da produção científica, e afetam diretamente na recuperação da informação. Abstract The impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) enables periodic changes in fingerprints. The Movement for Free Access to Information (ALi) promotes the socialization of knowledge to allow unrestricted access to content available in online format. A periodic assessment arises from the need to reflect the quality of information recorded. This article discusses the open-access journals in the fi eld of law falling within strata A2, B1, B2 and B3 for Qualis/CAPES (Base Year 2007) with regard to meeting the standards of normalization. The method is characterized by exploratory, descriptive, document and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Of the sixty-three journals identified in the strata mentioned, eleven are freely available. It was drawn up a checklist for Open Access Journals based on the literature and identified himself only as indicators title and subtitle of the journal, search engine, institution, title and subtitle of the article and authors presented one hundred percent of meeting the criteria Checklist. Concludes that the absence of standards, guidelines and criteria in open access journals negative interference in the dissemination of scientific production, which directly affects the 

scholarly journals Política de acesso, acessibilidade e inclusão educacional da pessoa com deficiência: revisão integrativa

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. e55486
Author(s):  
Maiara Suelen Mazera ◽  
Dulcinéia Ghizoni Schneider ◽  
Maria Itayra Padilha
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
On Line

Objetivo: conhecer os aspectos abordados pela produção científica em relação à temática da inclusão da pessoa com deficiência nas instituições de ensino. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura nas bases de dados Medical Literature and Retrivial Sistem on Line, Web of science, SCOPUS e Directory of Open Access Journals. Recorte da busca de 2015 a 2019. Resultados: foram analisados vinte e um artigos. As publicações apresentaram temáticas relacionadas à Políticas de acesso, cotas e currículos e Barreiras e facilitadores da inclusão na educação. Considerações finais: os aspectos abordados pela produção científica evidenciaram que entraves são transversais à vivência dos estudantes em suas experiências acadêmicas. Lacunas curriculares, estereotipação do corpo, crenças, falta de capacitação do corpo docente cerca-nos de evidências de que mais do que quebra de paradigmas diante da pessoa com deficiência, é preciso que existam avanços nas práticas políticas para que barreiras como preconceito, discriminação e segregação não definam as relações humanas..

Massive Open Access Publications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matheus Pereira Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Science Culture ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Article Processing Charges

A huge collaborative open science model is proposed. Many authors collaborating in a paper leads to a substantial reduction for the Article Processing Charges (APCs) in the Open Access Journals. This can significantly stimulate research within a healthier citizen and open science culture.

PEDAGOGY AND MODERN EDUCATION (ICPME) September 2019: сб.науч.тр./ RELF Group & OEAPS Inc.; редкол.: Каапо Кумпулайнен (отв.ред.) [и др.]. - Варшава, Польша : OEAPS Inc., 09. 2019. - 114 С. ISBN: 978-1697070392

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Гульдар Фанисовна Ибрагимова ◽  
Ольга Алексеевна Ковалевич ◽  
Раиса Николаевна Афонина ◽  
Елена Алексеевна Лесных ◽  
Яна Игоревна Ряполова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Publication Ethics ◽  
European Academy ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Authorship Credit ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Publishing Ethics ◽  
Article Processing Charges

Conference paper Covered by Leading Indexing DatabasesOpen European Academy of Public Sciences aims to have all of its journals covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus and Web of Science indexing systems. Several journals have already been covered by SCIE for several years and have received official Impact Factors. Some life sciencerelated journals are also covered by PubMed/MEDLINE and archived through PubMed Central (PMC). All of our journals are archived with the Spanish and Germany National Library.All Content is Open Access and Free for Readers Journals published by Open European Academy of Public Sciences are fully open access: research articles, reviews or any other content on this platform is available to everyone free of charge. To be able to provide open access journals, we finance publication through article processing charges (APC); these are usually covered by the authors’ institutes or research funding bodies. We offer access to science and the latest research to readers for free. All of our content is published in open access and distributed under a Creative Commons License, which means published articles can be freely shared and the content reused, upon proper attribution.Open European Academy of Public Sciences Publication Ethics StatementOpen European Academy of Public Sciences is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Open European Academy of Public Sciences takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peerreview together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. Open European Academy of Public Sciences takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.Mission and ValuesAs a pioneer of academic open access publishing, we serve the scientific community since 2009. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. In addition to being at the root of Open European Academy of Public Sciences and a key theme in our journals, we support sustainability by ensuring the longterm preservation of published papers, and the future of science through partnerships, sponsorships and awards.

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