scholarly journals Editorial

2020 ◽  
pp. 1
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Reproducible Research ◽  
Career Stage ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Scientific Rigour ◽  
Not For Profit

The Open Journal of Experimental Psychology and Neuroscience is a not-for-profit, fully open-access journal for reproducible research reports, theory papers, comments, early reports, and requests for collaborators. Its goals are to promote scientific rigour, support professional development, and minimise publication costs. We aim to support the publication of the best possible version of your science, regardless of your location, status, or career stage.

scholarly journals Ten years of AoB PLANTS the open access journal for plant scientists: inception and progress since 2009

AoB Plants ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael B Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Science Journal ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Open Access Journals

Abstract AoB PLANTS is a not-for-profit, open access, plant science journal and one of three peer-reviewed journals owned and managed by the Annals of Botany Company. This article explains events and thinking that led to the starting of AoB PLANTS and how the unique features of the Journal came to be formalized prior to its launch in September 2009. The article also describes how the Journal’s management developed over the first 10 years and summarizes the Journal’s achievements in a decade where open access journals have proliferated despite subscription journals continuing to dominate the publishing of peer-reviewed botanical science.

scholarly journals A Not-for-Profit Publisher's Perspective on Open Access

2004 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Frank ◽  
Margaret Reich ◽  
Alice Ra'anan
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

National Coalition Against Censorship

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Melissa Chomintra
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
Freedom Of Thought ◽  
National Coalition

The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), a not-for-profit organization, provides robust open access resources to students, teachers, parents, librarians, artists, curators, and others who are faced with first amendment issues. The content is comprehensive and can be easily implemented and utilized in a multitude of settings. While there are myriad organizations dedicated to freedom of thought and expression the NCAC focuses on providing actionable resources that set them apart from their peers. This review focuses on the curated content and educational resources.

Knowledge Unlatched: An Argument for Academic Scholarship in Law to be Open and How it Might be Achieved

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Pinter ◽  
Nicholas Bown
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Efficient Market ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Library Consortium ◽  
Open Content ◽  
Access Model

AbstractThe market in academic monographs is problematic, and sales have been in decline for decades. Concurrently, Open Access models of publishing are being developed and open content licenses designating a ‘some rights reserved’ status for content have been employed to provide a legal framework to reflect the changing ways content is used online. In the context of these innovations, Frances Pinter and Nicholas Bown describe Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit library consortium project which seeks to combine a financially viable Open Access model with the use of open content licences to create a more efficient market in scholarly books to the benefit of all stakeholders in the academic publishing ecosystem.

The cost profiles of alternative approaches to journal publishing

First Monday ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
The Cost

The digital era is having substantial impacts on journal publishing. In order to assist in analysing these impacts, a model is developed of the costs incurred in operating a refereed journal. Published information and estimates are used to apply the model to a computation of the total costs and per-article costs of various forms of journal-publishing. Particular attention is paid to the differences between print and electronic forms of journals, to the various forms of open access, and to the differences between not-for-profit and for-profit publishing undertakings. Insight is provided into why for-profit publishing is considerably more expensive than equivalent activities undertaken by unincorporated mutuals and not-for-profit associations. Conclusions are drawn concerning the current debates among conventional approaches and the various open alternatives.

scholarly journals Introducing Preprints: A Multidisciplinary Open Access Preprint Platform

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Preprints Editorial Office
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Access Service ◽  
Open Access Service

Preprints is a multidisciplinary preprint platform that makes scientific manuscripts from all fields of research immediately available at www.preprints.org. Preprints is a free (not-for-profit) open access service supported by MDPI in Basel, Switzerland.

scholarly journals Introducing the Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL)

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Phillips ◽  
Drew Baker ◽  
Ann Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
First Time

This article introduces the Open Access Digital Theological Library (OADTL), a new, fully open access digital library for religious studies. The OADTL, curated by professional librarians and employing OCLC's integrated library system, seeks to apply the principles of professional librarianship to make all open access content in religious studies fully discoverable to a global audience. The initial collections contain over 100,000 ebooks and over 200,000 full text, peer-reviewed, articles. The project is funded by a not-for-profit corporation, the Digital Theological Library, a 501c3 charity. Collections include recently published OA content, dissertations, public domain documents, and books from institutional repositories--as well content for Open Access journals. Much of the content is cataloged as e-content for the first time in this library. There are no fees of any kind for use.

scholarly journals Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: optional open access and not-for-profit

2005 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 799-802
Author(s):  
David S. Reeves ◽  
Colin W. E. Drummond ◽  
Mandy Hill
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit

scholarly journals Enclosure and emancipation in scholarly journals publishing: Overview, critical, global and communication perspectives

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Strong Potential ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals

The current state of scholarly communication is presented as one of contest between an increasingly commercial system that is dysfunctional and incompatible with the basic aims of scholarship, and emerging alternatives, particularly open access publishing and open access archiving. Two approaches to facilitating global participation in scholarly communication are contrasted; equity is seen as a superior goal to the donor model, which requires poverty or inequity to succeed. The current state of scholarly communication within the discipline of communication is examined. A relatively healthy percentage of not-for-profit publishers and at least 76 fully open access journals suggest strong potential for emancipating scholarship in communication from commercial imperatives. Specific sites of struggle and actions for scholars, including developing open access journals and self-archiving, are presented.

scholarly journals OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Rachel Emery
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
Book Publishing ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
The University ◽  
Further Development

The OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit is a brand new free resource for researchers, created through a collaborative writing process by global and diverse members of the academic community and scholarly communications organisations.  The toolkit aims to help authors better understand open access (OA) for books, to increase trust in OA book publishing, to provide reliable and easy-to-find answers to questions from authors, and to provide guidance in the process of publishing an OA book. The toolkit was developed in a series of workshops for authors, hosted by the university libraries at Oxford, Glasgow and Utrecht, in collaboration with Springer Nature and OAPEN. The idea for this toolkit came about in a Researcher to Reader workshop where discussions concluded that a trusted single resource was needed to tackle the lack of awareness and understanding amongst authors about OA book publishing, and common misconceptions about licensing and quality which form important barriers in the transition to OA books. This poster describes the content and layout of the toolkit, and the journey in developing it. We want the academic community to get involved by spreading the word about this toolkit and providing feedback for further development.  The OAPEN Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that works with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books through the OAPEN Library and the Directory of Open Access Books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

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