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Northwest Corner of Bright Lake, Century Park, Shanghai, China, May 6, 2009 | © Courtesy of Jonathan/Flickr.

Despite New Journals Being Launched, the Viability and Effectiveness of Open Access Models Remain in Question

Whereas the American Association for the Advancement of Science enters into partnerships with Chinese research organizations and universities to launch peer-reviewed Open Access mega-journals, the economic foundations of the Open Access models for book publishing and the public benefit from funding preprint servers continue to be uncertain. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a non-profit journal publisher, has been seeking to diversify its revenue sources beyond paywalls to its scientific journals, such as Science, experimental metered access to its magazine-related news website, and Green Open Access to its journal archives, […]

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The Structure of the Journal Publishing Market May Become Less Concentrated, as Open Access Platforms Mature

As the European Research Council gives a nod of official acceptance to preprints as valid scientific publications and the European Commission tests the waters for launching its own Open Access platform for sharing scientific results, the dynamics of the publishing market are likely change as hybrid publishing approaches, such as institutional repositories, with financial support from multiple sources increasingly gain in limelight. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In its recent announcement concerning the planned changes in its Work Programme for 2019, the European Research Council (ERC) has highlighted its support for Open Access, as it indicated that preprints will […]

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Subscription-Based Journals Have Not Been Found to Make Significant Contributions to Post-Publication Article Quality

Recent findings suggest that a transition to Open Access publishing is not likely to have a discernible effect on the quality of scholarly articles, since no significant measurable differences have been found between pre-print papers and their final versions as articles published in toll-based journals. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. In their article published by International Journal on Digital Libraries on February 5, 2018, and available in draft version at arXiv, a pre-print archive, from April 18, 2016, Martin Klein, Peter Broadwell, Sharon E. Farb, and Todd Grappone have cast considerable, though tentative, doubt on the claims of large […]

The Closed-Access Area, Manchester Town Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom, May 22, 2017 | © Courtesy of Ruth.

The Difference between Open Access and Paywall-Based Publishing Models Sharpens, as Preprints Gain in Legitimacy

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. A Blog Article by Pablo Markin. As illegal file sharing begins to affect the subscription-based journal publishing market, it can both hasten a wide-ranging adoption of Open Access by both publishers and researchers and give impetus to renewed efforts to shore up the paywall-based models against challengers. More specifically, as the interview with Daniel Himmelstein […]