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Editorial Independence and Journal Ownership in the Age of Open Science

The editorial board for the Journal of Informetrics declared checkmate when they resigned over Elsevier’s open access and open citations policies. Raising both practical and moral questions of journal ownership, the editors of Learning Publishing ask: What can this power move tell us about editorial ownership in the age of open science?

  • By Lettie Y. Conrad
  • Feb 12, 2019
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Why Society and Not-For-Profit Journals Are Worth Preserving: Better Economic and Continuing Value for the Community

Plan S seems to favor larger, commercial publishers over smaller, independent, not-for-profit publishers. Is this an acceptable sacrifice or are societies, and not-for-profit publishing, worth preserving?

  • By David Crotty
  • Dec 6, 2018
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