[…] management (librarianship or bibliographic) training, or technology training, or some combination of these and more. There are also meta-issues (e.g., open access, economics, roles) that affect attitudes alone or in combination. There are also personality preferences (daring vs. cautious, risk-tolerant vs. […]
[…] journals that won’t likely withstand the scrutiny of a quality medical journal. The pharmas benefit because the Omics journals are open access and they assume clinicians will have an easy time finding them via a Google search. But there is something […]
[…] s-index is a symptom of a larger, more insidious problem of vanity journals, which predate the recent explosive growth of open access predatory journals. Even 40 years ago, Garfield envisioned how such gaming could be attempted, detected, and defeated. Substitute “obscure […]
[…] often greeted with cynicism (particularly in scenarios where the transfer is from a prestigious subscription-based journal to a less established open access journal; it does reek a little of “your article’s not really good enough for us, but we’ll publish anything […]
[…] up to their emerging role in the transition to interactive online and hybrid learning. In both cases, network forces and open models are raising substantial questions about the exact role of the publisher and the value added. By contrast, reference […]
[…] Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) absolved platforms of liability for content posted using their tools, the trolls have had an open field on which to work. Recently, in an interview on Kara Swisher’s Recode Decode podcast, there was an exchange […]
[…] gaping hole present in efforts to drive scientific reproducibility. Enormous amounts of effort, money, and regulation have been put toward opening up the data behind published experiments. But very little attention seems to have been directed toward the protocols and […]
[…] old. The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has faded as a voice of strong ethical guidance. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) has been called out on numerous occasions now for sloppy practices itself. When editors do take ethical […]
[…] is simply mind-boggling to think that a half-dozen commercial firms did not beat PLOS to the punch with an author-pays open access service; they even had the model of BioMed Central to learn from. When publishers go to the tenure committee […]
[…] of these things in any reputable tech site (I recommend Ars Technica); this isn’t a review so much as some open thoughts on what importance these things might have in a scholarly publishing context. She’s very easy to set up. […]
[…] These are legitimate challenges, but it’s not clear to me whether they amount to a peer review crisis. Advocates of open peer review might see errors in the literature as justification for revamping the entire system. In my opinion, peer […]
[…] critically consuming information in the fashion we have long fantasized that an engaged citizenry would do. I have concerns about Open Access (OA), and OA business models as potentially undermining the very scholarship we seek to share more widely. But I […]
[…] publishers’ brands have little or no value, then publishers can be disintermediated. An author can deposit an article into an open access repository and then let Google do the marketing; a book author can work directly with Amazon and collect royalties […]
[…] play into the hands of the larger publishers as they have resources for business development (that is, personnel equipped to open up new markets) that smaller organizations can only dream of. This situation is even starker in the book business, […]
[…] to its readers, the publisher made all 2015 ACI papers freely available. It has also offered all ACI authors one free open access publication in 2016. To better understand the citation pattern that resulted in ACI being suspended, I created, using VOS […]