Recent Studies Point to Mixed Findings on the Citation Advantage of Open...
While the research of Hajar Sotudeh and Zohreh Estakhr indicates that Open Access articles published in Elsevier-published hybrid journals have a consistent, sustainable and cross-discipline advantage...
View ArticleAs Open Access Repositories for Data and Articles Rise in Number, Customized...
That Google launches a separate search engine for Open Access data sets attests to the increasing importance of Open Access for scientists and the customized search portals that connect between...
View ArticleAs Libraries Struggle with Budget Limitations, Publishing Books in Open...
Through university and publisher partnerships, it becomes increasingly possible to create infrastructures for the publication and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the form of books, while...
View ArticleOpen Access Journals and Institutional Repositories in Asia Continue to be...
The lacking visibility of Open Access journals and repositories from the Global South, such as Asian countries, in international directories, e.g., DOAJ, can be due to the hurdles for the...
View ArticleWhile Inclusion into Citation Indices Can Indicate Open Access Journal...
Though scientific databases, e.g., the Web of Science, make an extensive use of citation indices, such as the Social Sciences Citation Index, into which Open Access journals are increasingly included,...
View ArticleResearchGate’s Role in Open Access and Open Science Promotion Leads to...
As digital portals become increasingly central to the communication and sharing of scientific findings, some global publishers recognize that their presence on the corresponding platforms, such as...
View ArticleThe Revenues of the Open Access Article Publication Market Lag Behind its...
Latest reports show that the Open Access journal-level publication market has ample room for development, as Open Access journals’ revenues are yet to match the rates of their articles published, as...
View ArticleWikipedia Referencing Significantly Augments the Diffusion of Open Access...
As a Chinese university questions the validity of traditional impact factor metrics, Teplitsky, Lu and Duede’s 2017 study argues that Wikipedia is more likely to promote the visibility of Open Access...
View ArticleAmid Knowledge Access Concerns, the Switch of German Universities and...
Though concerted university-level transitions to Open Access can raise competitiveness concerns, such as in Germany, ranking systems and downloading statistics indicate that Open Access can raise the...
View ArticleA Partnership Highlights Impactstory’s Growing Clout for Open Access Content...
As Clarivate Analytics announces its strategic partnership with Impactstory, it also indicates the growing market power of Open Access data and publications. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. On June 23,...
View ArticlePromoting Open Access research with the Internet and social media
This post is the fifth part of my series ‘How to promote an Open Access book?‘ Although having realized that it may apply to both books and papers, I decided to change the title a little bit. It is...
View ArticleOn the (in)visibility of green Open Access in Latin America
The most important benefit for authors of publishing in Open Access is the increased visibility of their work. Theoretically, Open Access content can be read by anyone, anywhere in the world, while...
View ArticleWhy and how should you optimize academic articles for search engines?
As an author of a blog on contemporary scientific publishing, I am forced to stress frequently two important facts. Firstly, a growing number of researchers use the internet in their work to search...
View ArticleHow to promote an Open Access book? Part 4: The Traditional Ways
Are you a book author? Find more our guides for youhere. You chose an appropriate publisher, your book is accepted, and finally published. But this does not mean that your work is over. Your publisher...
View ArticleHow to promote an Open Access Book? Part 3: Publisher’s brand
Are you, or would you like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. I have decided to write another post on choosing a publisher because I think it is an important step and I want to discuss...
View ArticleHow to promote an Open Access Book? Part 2: Abstracting and Indexing
Are you, or would like to become, a book author? Visit our other guides. Abstracting and indexing tools make finding scientific content easier and, what is more important for authors, make scientific...
View ArticleHow to promote an Open Access book? Part 1: Networking
Are you a book author? Find more our guides for you here. There is an excellent article „15 Do-It-Yourself Tools to Promote Your Book” by Tony Levelle, published on writersstore.com. The texts...
View Article‘The great idea for an app’– interview with the creator of PubChase
Matthew Davis is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests includes proteomics, genomics, and bioinformatics. And he is the inventor of PubChase. WK:...
View ArticleFew thoughts about DOAJ and its new application process
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website started in 2002 which lists more than 9 000 Open Access journals. DOAJ aims to index only high quality publications that are fully Open Access,...
View ArticleOpen Access increases Impact Factor? – interview with Gregor Serša
Today we present an interview with prof. Gregor Serša, the editor-in-chief of Radiology and Oncology, the Journal of Association of Radiology and Oncology, published by De Gruyter Open, with an Impact...
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