Category: academic mumbles
As I wrote earlier, I’ve been asked to do short reports on the reputability of various journals and publishers – and this has been picking up as the publishing season…
An increasingly fun part of my job is assessing journals for their reputability. Here’s a quick report I did for a cow-orker recently, asking about the rather interesting “International Journal…
I’ve written about piracy in scholarly communication before, and the two best heard of pirates, Research Gate and Academia.edu are slowly withering under attacks to their business model. Both sites…
Blacklists bad, thinking good. Cabell’s has launched a successor to Beall’s List – a new blacklist of ‘predatory publishers’. I can’t comment on it in any detail because its subscription…
A colleague asked me today if I considered a journal that asked for copyright transfer to a publisher to be Open Access. It’s a good question: by transferring copyright from…
One of the parts of the solution to the currently broken system of scholarly publication are layer journals. The problem is the deluge of papers, combined with multidisciplinarity, means there…
Piers Locke is a Canterbury colleague with a progressive approach to scholarly publication. I like him, and not just because he’s inordinately fond of elephants (but that certainly helps). He…
A short video from Open Repositories 2017, where I describe the University of Canterbury’s Open Access “Lightweight Publishing Model”. We use our institutional repository as the back end to host…
You should never pay to read or to publish primary research. Scholarly publishing is in a bind. In trying to move a business model from being subscription based ‘back loaded'(paying…