Reviewing scientific literature can be a bit like trying to negotiate a maze with the lights turned off. For years I was fumbling around in the dark, but didn’t realise I was missing out. Now the Open Access Button campaign wants us…
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Let’s shine a light on paywalls that deny open access to scientific research
Tagged with: Open access, Paywall, peer review, population health, scientific currency, scientific papers, scientific publication, scientific research
Posted in Case report, Education, Journal article, Open access, Peer Review, Peer-reviewed Journal, Review article, Science, Scientific editing, Scientific Journal, Scientific writing
Posted in Case report, Education, Journal article, Open access, Peer Review, Peer-reviewed Journal, Review article, Science, Scientific editing, Scientific Journal, Scientific writing
The inexorable rise of open access scientific publishing
A new study shows that the rise of open access publishing of academic research is faster than anyone had previously realized. Before 2000 the vast majority of research papers were published in journals that could only be read by academics if…
Why open access should be a key issue for university leaders
Universities are digital machines these days. But many of the decisions that have to be made as a result are not technical at all. They are about the nature of research and its public benefits, about how learning and teaching takes place,…
Open access: six myths to put to rest
Open access to research is still held back by misunderstandings repeated by people who should know better, says reader Open access to academic research has never been a hotter topic. But it’s still held back by myths and misunderstandings repeated by people who…
Tagged with: biomedicine, digital scholars, DOAJ reports, NIH, Open access, open access journals, peer-reviewed journal, PMC, Registry of Open Access Repositories, ROAR, SOAP, SSRN
Posted in Journal Selection, Open access, Peer-reviewed Journal, Science
Posted in Journal Selection, Open access, Peer-reviewed Journal, Science
