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Knowledge sharing in global health research : the impact, uptake and cost of open access to scholarly literature
(BMC, 2017)
Background: In 1982, the Annals of Virology published a paper showing how Liberia has a highly endemic
potential of Ebola warning health authorities of the risk for potential outbreaks; this journal is only available ...
The oligopoly’s shift to open access : how the big five academic publishers profit from article processing charges
(MIT Press, 2023-08-03)
This study aims to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & ...
Is it such a big deal? On the cost of journal use in the digital era
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018)
Commercial scholarly publishers promote and sell bundles of journals—
known as big deals—that provide access to entire collections rather than
individual journals. Following this new model, size of serial collections ...
The oligopoly of academic publishers in the digital era
(Public Library of Science, 2015-06-10)
The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate
within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers’ high
profit margins. However, the share ...
Big publishers, bigger profits : how the scholarly community lost the control of its journals
(Carleton University. Department of English language and literature, 2015)
Despite holding the potential to liberate scholarly information, the digital era has, to the contrary, increased the control of a few for-profit publishers. While most journals in the print era were owned by academic ...
Authorship, citations, acknowledgments and visibility in social media : symbolic capital in the multifaceted reward system of science
(SAGE, 2018-02-01)
The reward system of science is undergoing significant changes, as traditional indicators
compete with initiatives that offer novel means of disseminating and assessing scholarly
impact. This paper considers a number of ...