Content management for journal publishers

The Traditional Scholarly Journal Publishers Legitimize the Web

for acceptance by users. In part, the problem the early electronic scholarly journals faced is the problem all new scholarly journals have—that of building a reputation and finding one’s place on the academic food-chain (Peek, 1996). Another major issue was the reality that the traditional publishers, those who had published the print journals, were not producing electronic journals beyond expe...

Citation and content analysis of Hormozgan Medical Journal

Introduction: One of the most important branches of scientometrics is citation analysis which offers patterns showing authors’ information searching behavior and authors’ authorship. Citation Analysis provides a pattern of authors’ Information-seeking behavior and also Content Analysis provides a pattern of authorship. This study aimed to analyze the citations and content of p...

Libraries for the Blind as Accessible Content Publishers: Copyright and Related Issues

Libraries for the blind developed as charities, circulating and producing, for the most part, Braille. Their seeking of copyright licenses to permit them to produce such books did not pose any particular threat to copyright holders and publishers. But as they started taking their places as libraries that rendered library services, and as technological developments enabled them to make and circu...

Predatory publishers: Time for action

Plenty is being written about predatory publishers (Clark & Thompson, 2017; Pickler et al., 2015) but little is being done to stop them. The one valiant effort to expose them: Beall’s List of Predatory publishers, has been forcibly removed from the Internet (Watson, 2017a), and while someone else has made the list available online (http://beallslist. weebly.com/; accessed 18 September 2017), th...

Editorial Note: Past Report and Future Direction for Iranian Journal of Management Studies