Abstract Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are
multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged …

Executive summary● Scholarly communication● The research cycle● Types of scholarly
communication● Changes in scholarly communication system● The journal● What is a …

Background A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access
publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and …

The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers
of such journals expand, in so far as they undermine scientific integrity, quality, and …

Openness is everywhere in education at the moment: in late 2011 a free course in artificial
intelligence had over 160,000 learners enrolled (Leckart 2012); in 2012 in the UK the …

Background In the past few years there has been an ongoing debate as to whether the
proliferation of open access (OA) publishing would damage the peer review system and put …

Journals publishing open access (OA) articles often require that authors pay article
processing charges (APC). Researchers in the Global South often cite APCs as a major …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

Biodiversity remains relatively unknown and understudied in many parts of the developing
world with significant information gaps, in stark contrast to many areas in the developed …

Background Open access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly
journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to …