Category: Scholarly Journals

"Enforcing Public Data Archiving Policies in Academic Publishing: A Study of Ecology Journals"

Dan Sholler et al. have self-archived "Enforcing Public Data Archiving Policies in Academic Publishing: A Study of Ecology Journals."

Here's an excerpt:

We conducted a qualitative, interview-based study with journal editorial staff and other stakeholders in the academic publishing process to examine how journals enforce data archiving policies. We specifically sought to establish who editors and other stakeholders perceive as responsible for ensuring data completeness and quality in the peer review process. Our analysis revealed little consensus with regard to how data archiving policies should be enforced and who should hold authors accountable for dataset submissions. Themes in interviewee responses included hopefulness that reviewers would take the initiative to review datasets and trust in authors to ensure the completeness and quality of their datasets. We highlight problematic aspects of these thematic responses and offer potential starting points for improvement of the public data archiving process.

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"Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?"

Vincent Larivière and Cassidy R. Sugimoto have published "Do Authors Comply When Funders Enforce Open Access to Research?" in Nature.

Here's an excerpt:

Of the more than 1.3 million papers we identified as subject to the selected funders' open-access mandates, we found that some two-thirds were indeed freely available to read.

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"Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program"

Kate McCready and Emma Molls have published "Developing a Business Plan for a Library Publishing Program" in Publications.

Here's an excerpt:

Over the last twenty years, library publishing has emerged in higher education as a new class of publisher. Conceived as a response to commercial publishing practices that have strained library budgets and prevented scholars from openly licensing and sharing their works, library publishing is both a local service program and a broader movement to disrupt the current scholarly publishing arena. It is growing both in numbers of publishers and numbers of works produced. The commercial publishing framework which determines the viability of monetizing a product is not necessarily applicable for library publishers who exist as a common good to address the needs of their academic communities. Like any business venture, however, library publishers must develop a clear service model and business plan in order to create shared expectations for funding streams, quality markers, as well as technical and staff capacity. As the field is maturing from experimental projects to full programs, library publishers are formalizing their offerings and limitations. The anatomy of a library publishing business plan is presented and includes the principles of the program, scope of services, and staffing requirements. Other aspects include production policies, financial structures, and measures of success.

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Jisc Open Access Briefing Paper: Considering the Implications of the Finch Report

Jisc has released Considering the Implications of the Finch Report.

Here's an excerpt:

Over six years on and in light of the 2017 monitoring report from the Universities UK Open Access Coordination Group [3] this discussion paper examines the impact and consequences of the UK approach, before suggesting possible interventions that might be considered further to evaluate their contribution to enhancing the transition to open access in the UK for all stakeholders.

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"Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors"

College & Research Libraries has released an e-print of "Altruism or Self-Interest? Exploring the Motivations of Open Access Authors" by Robert Heaton, Dylan Burns, and Becky Thoms.

Here's an excerpt:

More than 250 authors at Utah State University published an Open Access (OA) article in 2016. Analysis of survey results and publication data from Scopus suggests that the following factors led authors to choose OA venues: ability to pay publishing charges, disciplinary colleagues’ positive attitudes toward OA, and personal feelings such as altruism and desire to reach a wide audience. Tenure status was not an apparent factor.

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