Open Cultural Studies is the latest venture by De Gruyter Open. This new mega journal, entirely in open access, seeks to become a go-to publishing venue for research in culture. How does it fit into publishing landscape and what readers and authors can expect? Editorial […]
Looking back on the past, we can be more optimistic when we talk about the future of openness in academic research. The end of December gives a natural opportunity to look back on the passing year. For me this is the fourth time that I […]
The 2016 Emerging Scholar Monograph Competition is on and any fresh PhD holder can submit his or her book proposal until 31 January 2017. On this occasion I am pleased to present an interview with the winner of a previous edition, Dr Daniel Altshuler, whose […]
I really have my favorites among pseudo-journals discovered by Beall. One of them is the Integrated Journal of British. Well, I do not agree with Jeffrey Beall in many points and I generally think that the importance of the subject of psuedo-journals is overestimated in […]
From time to time somebody will ask me which on-line platform for academic researchers is, in my opinion, worth investing time in. Where does it pay to set up a personal profile up and share some information? This question is increasingly hard to answer, since […]
This guest post was authored by Milena Dobreva.[1] Do you really need a load of gold to pay for a gold open access publication? Last week a colleague was asking how to find good quality open access journals with reasonable fees in his research domain. […]
Did you get an email inviting you to Kudos from your publisher? Well, if so, now you are probably wondering if it is worth spending some time on setting up another personal researcher profile on the web. So lets have a look at Kudos, what […]
Undiscovered archeaological sites are constantly being destroyed by climate change and modern agriculture. Activity of non-professional metal detectorists may be the only chance for us to find some of these places. However, academics raise concerns that where no effort is made to record data in […]
De Gruyter Open publishes 571 serials in cooperation with 270 various institutions from 38 countries around the world. An important force behind the global shift to open access publishing are academic associations and universities, managing their own journals. These institutions often benefit from direct public […]
In the open access week, Milena Dobreva* looks at some participatory approaches facilitating research. How does the renewed interest in citizen science change the traditional academic landscape? Once upon a time, research was about continuity and the expansion of ideas of the previous generations of […]