scholarly journals Fake Archives: Doppelgängers and the Search for Openness in Scholarly Communication Platforms

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Delfanti
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scholarly Publishing

viXra.org is a preprint repository that mimics the design, logo, structure and functioning of arXiv.org, the open access website that collects articles from physics, mathematics and other quantitative sciences before or regardless of their submission and publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Launched in 2009 as an answer to the role of arXiv as the dominant platform for scholarly publishing in some areas, viXra is an ironic copycat version of the “official” website, of which it spells the name backwards.

scholarly journals Mapping the Current Research Agenda on Scholarly Publishing: Scopus-Indexed Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
Elena Tikhonova ◽  
Lilia Raitskaya
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Publishing Research ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Science System ◽  
Peer Reviews ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Editorial Review ◽  
The Impact

Nearly ten years ago, scholarly publishing came to the fore in research on scientific communication spurred by the evolving Open Science system, the reinvention of peer reviews, and new attitudes to scholarly publications in the ranking-based academic environment. Here, the JLE editors revisit the field of scholarly publishing and identify the most popular areas where potential JLE authors might have difficulty. In this editorial, Scopus-indexed reviews are analysed to map the prevailing trends. The editorial review shows that the trends include open access, peer review transparency, the changing role of libraries in scholarly publishing, CrossRef’s initiatives, outsourcing and skills lacking in publishing, the impact of universities’ prescribed lists for publishing research, open-access monographs, and the role of commercial publishers.

scholarly journals Reason, Risk, and Reward: Models for Libraries and Other Stakeholders in an Evolving Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Mangiafico ◽  
Kevin L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Changing Practices

Scholarly publishing, and scholarly communication more generally, are based on patterns established over many decades and even centuries. Some of these patterns are clearly valuable and intimately related to core values of the academy, but others were based on the exigencies of the past, and new opportunities have brought into question whether it makes sense to persist in supporting old models. New technologies and new publishing models raise the question of how we should fund and operate scholarly publishing and scholarly communication in the future, moving away from a scarcity model based on the exchange of physical goods that restricts access to scholarly literature unless a market-based exchange takes place. This essay describes emerging models that attempt to shift scholarly communication to a more open-access and mission-based approach and that try to retain control of scholarship by academics and the institutions and scholarly societies that support them. It explores changing practices for funding scholarly journals and changing services provided by academic libraries, changes instituted with the end goal of providing more access to more readers, stimulating new scholarship, and removing inefficiencies from a system ready for change.

The role of institutional repositories in developing the communication of scholarly research

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Mary Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Perceived Barriers ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Scholarly Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Institutional Repositories

Purpose – This paper aims to uncover the central purposes of institutional repositories, how developments are being affected by policies and researcher behaviour and also what services and approaches are appropriate in supporting repositories from those partners involved in scholarly communication with a particular focus on services that support the publication of research. Design/methodology/approach – The research reviews the literature and current practices within higher education with regard to the core purposes of institutional repositories, the possible causes of low population of repositories in some institutions and subject disciplines, how this is being addressed and likely future developments. A qualitative survey using semi-structured interviews explores current best practices and tests the specific research questions that emerged from the literature review. Findings – The rate at which institutional repositories have grown in number has been very fast in recent years, but the population of repositories with research has been relatively slow. The research identified a number of reasons as to why the population of repositories was likely to accelerate in the future and have a more significant impact on scholarly communication. The main catalysts are: strengthening of national and funder policies that serve to both mandate open access (green or gold) and raise awareness of open access amongst faculty; the alignment of repositories with current research information systems within universities; and the development of metadata and open archives initiative harvesting that will improve discoverability and usage data. Research limitations/implications – As many of the issues around the development of repositories centre on the attitudes of faculty, it would also provide an interesting extension to the research to understand their views of the role of institutional repositories, too. Practical implications – The study presents a number of possible new ways of working by both information professionals and publishers to improve scholarly communication through the inclusion of research within institutional repositories and how perceived barriers could be overcome. Social implications – The study provides guidance on how the communication of scholarly research could be improved and reach a wider audience. This, in turn, will benefit researchers, corporate organisations and the public at large. Originality/value – The paper provides a review of current best practices in managing institutional repositories and identifies new ways of addressing some of the perceived barriers to populating repositories and the benefits for each stakeholder in the scholarly communication process.

scholarly journals Beyond Copyright and Technology: What Open Access Can Tell Us about Precarity, Authority, Innovation, and Automation in the University Today

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Kelty
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
The State ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Changing Practices ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

In this interview, we discuss what open access can teach us about the state of the university, as well as practices in scholarly publishing. In particular the focus is on issues of labor and precarity, the question of how open access enables or blocks other innovations in scholarship, the way open access might be changing practices of scholarship, and the role of technology and automation in the creation, evaluation, and circulation of scholarly work.

scholarly journals Open-access mega-journals

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Spezi ◽  
Simon Wakeling ◽  
Stephen Pinfield ◽  
Claire Creaser ◽  
Jenny Fry ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty or importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses relating to OAMJs, and their place within scholarly publishing, and considers attitudes towards mega-journals within the academic community. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents a review of the literature of OAMJs structured around four defining characteristics: scale, disciplinary scope, peer review policy, and economic model. The existing scholarly literature was augmented by searches of more informal outputs, such as blogs and e-mail discussion lists, to capture the debate in its entirety. Findings While the academic literature relating specifically to OAMJs is relatively sparse, discussion in other fora is detailed and animated, with debates ranging from the sustainability and ethics of the mega-journal model, to the impact of soundness-only peer review on article quality and discoverability, and the potential for OAMJs to represent a paradigm-shifting development in scholarly publishing. Originality/value This paper represents the first comprehensive review of the mega-journal phenomenon, drawing not only on the published academic literature, but also grey, professional and informal sources. The paper advances a number of ways in which the role of OAMJs in the scholarly communication environment can be conceptualised.

scholarly journals A Prognosis for Continued Disarray in Electronic Scholarly Communication

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
George B. Newby
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Electronic Books ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Time Line

Abstract: Activities scholars undertake to be viewed as productive and tenurable (publication in traditional media) are out of sync with the activities they must engage it to be well informed and well connected (participation in electronic communication forums). This work examines the challenges and provides a time line for the legitimization, codification, organization, and general maturation of electronic scholarly publishing. It is anticipated that the role of relatively unstructured, uncontrolled, and informal electronic scholarly communication will be of continued importance, yet will largely remain independent of efforts to create standards and protocols for electronic books, journals, and other transformed traditional media. Résumé: Les activités propices à faire avancer la carrière de chercheurs (à savoir la publication dans les médias traditionnels) ne sont pas les mêmes que celles leur permettant d'être bien informés et apparentés (à savoir la participation aux forums de communication électronique). Cet article examine les défis que présentent la légitimation, la codification, l'organisation et le développement général de l'édition savante électronique, et propose un calendrier pour surmonter ces défis. Il prévoit qu'une communication électronique relativement non-structurée, non-contrôlée et informelle continuera à avoir un rôle important, tout en échappant en grande partie aux efforts d'établir des standards et des protocoles pour livres et journaux électroniques ainsi que pour d'autres médias traditionnels transformés.

scholarly journals Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Research Traditions ◽  
Media And Communication ◽  
The Prestige

This commentary, after outlining the broader rationale for open access in scholarly publishing, makes three arguments to support the claim that media and communication scholars should be at the forefront of the open access movement: (1) The topics that we write about are inescapably multimedia, so our publishing platforms should be capable— at the very least—of embedding the objects that we study; (2) media studies, owing to their fragmentation and marginality, can sidestep the prestige “penalty” that drags down other disciplines’ open access efforts; and (3) our rich research traditions on popular media dynamics are begging to be applied (and perhaps rethought) in the context of scholarly communication.

scholarly journals VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IS OPEN ACCESS KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
MI Subhani ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
International Conference ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Office of Research, Innovations & Commercialization, ILMA University as always plays a significant role of stimuli to provoke the understanding of publishing protocols among the publishers and other stakeholders of scholarly communications. In continuation to this role, Office of Research, Innovations & Commercialization-ILMA University is hosting a virtual international conference on IS OPEN ACCESS KNOWLEDGE CRITICAL IN SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION? With this note, to spread growing significance of Open Access Knowledge in Scholarly Communication, I am extending an Official Invitation to your good self to attend this conference. During this extraordinary new normal time in an unprecedented year, there is no pressure to attend this conference. The conference has been designed to be as flexible as possible in the hopes that many people can participate to listen Conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS from Higher Education Commission, Govt. of Pakistan, Web of Science, Elsevier, COPE, Creative Commons, SAGE Open, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, University De Quebec Montreal, Commonwealth University and Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, Bangkok.

scholarly journals The four pillars of scholarly publishing: The future and a foundation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarrett E.K. Byrnes ◽  
Edward Baskerville ◽  
Bruce Caron ◽  
Cameron Neylon ◽  
Carol Tenopir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
The Future

With the rise of electronic publishing and the inherent paradigm shifts for so many other scientific endeavours, it is time to consider a change in the practices of scholarly publication in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. To facilitate the speed and quality of science, the future of scholarly communication will rest on four pillars - an ecosystem of scholarly products, immediate and open access, open peer review, and full recognition for participating in the process. These four pillars enable us to build better tools to facilitate the discovery of new relevant work for individual scientists, one of the greatest challenges of our time as we cope with the current deluge of scientific information. By incorporating these principles into future publication platforms, we argue that science and society will be better served than by remaining locked into a publication formula that arose in the 1600s. It has served its purpose admirably and well, but it is time to move forward. With the rise of the Internet, scholarly publishing has embraced electronic distribution. But the tools afforded by the Internet and other advancing technologies have profound implications for scholarly communication beyond just distribution. We argue that, to best serve science, the process of scholarly communication must embrace these advances and evolve. Here we consider the current state of the process in ecology and evolutionary biology and propose directions for change. We identify four pillars for the future of scientific communication: (1) an ecosystem of scholarly products; (2) immediate and open access; (3) open peer review; and (4) full recognition for participating in the process. These four pillars will guide the development of better tools and practices for discovering and sharing scientific knowledge in a modern networked world. Things were far different when the existing system arose in the 1600s, and though it has served its purpose admirably and well, it is time to move forward.

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