Continuous Publication: Changing the publishing model

Open access: changing global science publishing

The article reflects on open access as a strategy of changing the quality of science communication globally. Successful examples of open-access journals are presented to highlight implications of archiving in open digital repositories for the quality and citability of research output. Advantages and downsides of gold, green, and hybrid models of open access operating in diverse scientific envir...

Changing ethical standards in scientific publication.

The changing landscape of scholarly publishing: will radiation research survive?

As a society published journal, Radiation Research has been a successful and enduring project of the Radiation Research Society (RRS). In 59 years of publication, the journal has produced 732 issues and 10,712 articles. As a nonprofit organization, RRS, like most societies, has used revenues from subscriptions to support, in part, the life of the organization (meetings, conferences and grants t...

Measuring publication impact, and publishing and funding models

Scholary Publication and Copyright in Networked Electronic Publishing

THE PuBLicATioN OF SCHOLARLY WORKS in a networked electronic environment presents many opportunities for solving some of the problems that currently exist in the print world. At the same time, copyright law, a form of legal protection developed primarily for printed works, has been used to create stumbling blocks both for faculty authors and their institutions. This has occurred because publish...