Academic authors, scholarly publishing, and open access in Australia

Authors and open access publishing

Surveys were carried out to learn more about authors and open access publishing. Awareness of open access journals among those who had not published in them was quite high; awareness of ‘self-archiving’ was less. For open access journal authors the most important reason for publishing in that way was the principle of free access; their main concerns were grants and impact. Authors who had not p...

Open access, a revolution in scholarly publishing

I would like to thank Robert Ferguson, MD and the Editorial Team of the Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives (JCHIMP) for the opportunity to write this commentary and congratulate them on the launch of the Journal which will serve as a valuable resource for physicians and other health professionals practicing in community settings. I am also very appreciative of their de...

Open Access Scholarly Journal Publishing in Chinese

The research literature on open access (OA) publishing has mainly dealt with journals publishing in English, and studies focusing on OA journals in other languages are less common. This article addresses this gap via a case study focusing on Chinese-language OA journals. It starts with the identification of the major characteristics of this market, followed by eight semi-structured interviews t...

Open Access publishing and scholarly communications in non-scientific disciplines

Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want

Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez are Science Librarians in Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. The authors would like to commend the York Libraries administration for their wholehearted support of Open Access initiatives at York. © Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez. Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...