Trust in Scholarly Publishing
How do we define, track, and measure trust in scholarly publishing?
Detours and Diversions — Do Open Access Publishers Face New Barriers?
Open access (OA) publishing seeks to eliminate paywalls for users. It has largely succeeded, but new diversions and distractions built into the commercial Internet may create new barriers that will be harder to deal with.
Ask The Chefs: Improving Trust In Peer Review
[…] system so much based on trust, why do we need to discuss trust in the peer review process? Peer review-less predatory journals, retraction of published papers, and a ‘reproducibility crisis’ in research are among the reasons to be blamed for shaking our […]
A Quick Tour Around the World of Scholarly Journal Publishing
[…] the use of fake peer reviewers (or fake email addresses for real peer reviewers), or even, as we see with predatory publishers, not bothering with peer review at all. Though we’re 20 years into our digital transition, we’re still in […]
Predatory Publishing as a Rational Response to Poorly Governed Academic Incentives
Are we thinking about predatory publishing the wrong way? Are researchers deliberately choosing these journals, and if so, what are the incentives driving this decision?
Ask The Fellows: What Did You Learn At This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting?
[…] Meeting? Carl C. Haynes; Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS), Syracuse University (NY) Will big data fuel predatory publishing? This was one of the concluding questions that intrigued me from the pre-meeting seminar, “All Things Predatory – Tackling […]
Guest Post – An Early Look at the Impact of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Journals Warning List
[…] titles that have frequented other warning lists such as the infamous Beall’s list, but the common denominator is not the predatory nature of the journals but that they attract considerable APC payments from China. The listed journals are assigned to […]
The Emotional Rollercoaster of Scholarly Publishing
Today, we take an emotional journey through scholarly publishing and aim to understand how emotions impact authors’, reviewers’, and editors’ experiences in the scholarly communications lifecycle.
Ask The Chefs: OSTP Policy Part I
[…] librarians, and that they don’t represent us. Back then there were also many popular posts describing open access journals as predatory journals. But in the last few years, the attitude has quietly changed. The criticizing voices have almost disappeared and […]
Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions
In this post we reflect on the current threats to trust in scholarly journal publishing, and the implications for organizations like Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) that seek to uphold that trust.
Ask the Community (and Chefs): How Can We Achieve Equitable Participation in Open Research? – Part 2
In yesterday’s “Ask the Community (and Chefs)” post, librarians and people involved in various ways in journal publishing shared their thoughts about how to increase equity in open research. Today’s responses provide researcher perspectives and reflections on the wider enabling […]
Transitional Agreements Aren’t Working: What Comes Next?
[…] to pressure on scientists and the peer review system and has given rise to the proliferation of low quality and predatory journals. While I think that this is entirely plausible right now at most, if not all, larger publishers, the […]
Open Access and Global South: It is More Than a Matter of Inclusion
Haseeb Irfanullah discusses how we can overcome the barriers blocking global participation in open access publishing.
Born Digital – The Expanding Universe of Research Content
Publishing as we know it is being redefined to include other forms of content that are part of the scholar’s workflow.
Researcher to Reader (R2R) Debate: Is Sci-Hub Good or Bad for Scholarly Communication?
[…] accepted with each passing day — also provide authors a zero-cost option. Another criticism is that APCs give rise to predatory publishers that take authors’ money but do not perform rigorous peer review. However, this is like saying society should […]