scholarly journals Megajournals and what they mean for the future of scientific publishing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Pattinson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Broad Scope ◽  
The Future ◽  
Page Limit

Since it launched five years ago, PLOS ONE has redefined the scientific journal. The broad publication criteria and lack of page limit allowed PLOS ONE to grow at a rate never seen before in the industry, to a level where it needed its own category: the Megajournal. Recently, other publishers have sought to emulate the success of PLOS ONE with releases of their own megajournals. These new journals all have similar properties: full Open Access, editorial criteria based on sound science and not on significance or impact, fast turnaround, broad scope. In this talk I shall discuss the features of megajournals, their benefits and weaknesses, and what their arrival means for the future of scientific publishing.

scholarly journals Copyright violation of predators in scientific publishing - Biochemia Medica’s harmful experience and proposed solution

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-201
Author(s):  
Daria Pašalić ◽  
Vesna Šupak Smolčić
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Professional Association ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Copyright Violation

Biochemia Medica is an open access journal that does not charge manuscript processing or publishing. All editorial staff are continuously educated and directed to follow the highest ethical and scholarly publishing standards in all steps of the manuscript processing. They are all laboratory medicine professionals, who apart from their regular jobs, are in charge of different phases in Journal processing as volunteers. The publisher of the Journal is scientific and professional association of laboratory medicine professionals, Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory medicine (CSMBLM). During November and December 2018, without knowledge of the editorial staff, unknown perpetrator(s) downloaded a respectable number of articles published in Biochemia Medica as PDF and launched an illegal web page under the same journal name with downloaded articles. Although this was a very harmful experience, we have learned a lot from it and we would like to share this with scientific journals’ community. Therefore, we would like to share this harmful experience, and to present a short workflow on how to manage situations like this if it will be necessary for any scientific journal in the future.

Author Processing Charges: Barriers to Open Research, Barriers to Progress

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin O’Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Research ◽  
The Future

Presentation slides from Metropolitan New York Library Council Open Access Symposium: "The Future Is Open Access, but How Do We Get There?: A Symposium." September 12-13, 2019. New York. NY.

scholarly journals The open access scientific journal: an empirical study

2004 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Turid Hedlund ◽  
Tomas Gustafsson ◽  
Bo-Christer Björk
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Scientific Journal
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