Access to Journals

Access to medical journals in Malaysia.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the use of the best available research evidence to improve the quality of medical judgments and clinical care . Every year, the Julius Centre, University of Malaya organises workshops on EBP. During these workshops, we teach participants EBP skills. Despite being equipped with these skills, the participants continue to face the challenge of accessing databases a...

Access to journals through peer reviewers.

In a CMAJ editorial, John Fletcher states that the bread and butter of an academic journal is disseminating science, which is also an ethical imperative of researchers and academics who contribute to the processes of peer review for scientific publications. Some journals give their peer reviewers free access to their journals as a token of thanks, but how frequently is this policy practised? An...

Open-access mega-journals

Purpose – Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty...

Open-Access Journals

predatory open access journals

سخن سردبیر editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره پانزدهم، آبان 1395، 808-807 مجلات یغماگر با دسترسی آزاد predatory open access journals محسن رضائیان[1]،[2] m. rezaeian پیدایش و رشد «مجلات با دسترسی آزاد» (open access journals) در سالیان اخیر، نویدبخش دوره جدیدی از چاپ و انتشار یافته های نوین علمی بود. قرار بود که در این دوره جدید، نویسندگان یک مقاله علمی با پرداخت هزینه های چاپ، نتیجه ...