The Academic Library as Scholarly Publisher Bibliography includes over
125 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports
that are useful in understanding the digital scholarly publishing
activities of academic libraries since the late 1980's, especially their
open access book
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Are you a researcher or a librarian? You might be a publisher, or a funder
of research.
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Dear All
We've just published a blog post summarising some of our initial thoughts about
the new flexibility allowed by the REF2021 Open Access policy in relation to
preprint servers, and the key points UK HEIs and authors will need to address
in response to t
My five cent here. At 1science, we used the Beall’s list as a source of
inspiration to built 1journal which is a white list of academic/scientific
journal we use in building 1findr - we currently have a tad more than 87,000
journals in there, and about 80,000 journals of which have articles inde
Dear Falk,
Thank you for responding. Unfortunately, what you say does not comfort me
and, I would think, would not comfort anyone who has become a victim of a
predatory publisher. I say this because:
1. Whitelists like DOAJ are not perfect and, like Think.Check.Submit, offer
no remedy or solution
Dear All,
it is a complex mesh of rewuired actions and it will probably not be sufficient
only to look at what researchers can do better or how they can be better
supported. I found this interview on the ScholarlyKitchen blog to be quite
insightful [1]: It offers a 6 fold-advise to counteract
Richard, thank you for raising the question of what we might do to help authors
who are victims of "predatory publishers". It is likely that the vast majority
are good, ethical researchers committed to open access who were not aware of
this problem. If their work was not peer reviewed, this does
Hi Richard,
1) A number of actions are mentioned in the response, the most important one is
to support DOAJ, to publish publication costs via Open APC and make publishing
contracts openly in the future.
2) There is no reliable empirical evidence that the phenomenon of predatory
publishing has
Thanks for posting this Falk. I have yet to see concerted action taken
anywhere to support researchers who become victims of predatory publishers.
I also do not think I see any recognition of their plight, or details of
what is being planned to help them, in your document. Perhaps I missed it.
An
The Austrian Science Board and the FWF Respond to the Recent Media Reports on
the Questionable Practices of Several Scholarly Publishers
https://www.fwf.ac.at/en/news-and-media-relations/news/detail/nid/20180724-2314/
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Falk Reckling, PhD
Head of Department
Strat
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