As the regulatory pressure for a blanket implementation of Open Access standards from the European Commission grows, the Fair Open Access Alliance has united leading Open Access journal and book publishers into a consortium dedicated to the transition to Open Access and the transparency of […]
Even though costs associated with Open Access publishing have been found to grow, as preprints gain in increasing recognition in funding, grant and fellowship applications, Open Access publishers, such as Hindawi, may be poised to benefit from the associated disruptive change in the publishing industry. […]
While Green and hybrid Open Access articles have been tentatively found to out-perform paywall-protected articles based on their citation statistics, Gold Open Access articles show lower citation levels than subscription access articles, which could be due to revenue performance differences between respective publishers. A Blog […]
Digitization increasingly makes it possible to develop and apply scientific article-level impact metrics, rather than rely on journal-level measures of influence on the research community. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. While journal impact factor metrics have been and continue to be used to assess […]
As open access journal publication is increasingly becoming mainstream, article processing charges experience pressure to approach the equilibrium prices in the open access market. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In recent years, as open access (OA) publishing has evolved into a mainstream phenomenon, it […]