DINI unterzeichnet „Action Plan for Diamond Open Access“

Internationalisation of information services for publishers' open access policies: the DINI multilingual integration layer

It is essential for the strategy of open access self-archiving that scientific authors are given comprehensive information on publisher copyright policies. DINI, the German Initiative for Networked Information, has developed a German (and potentially multilingual) interface to the English SHERPA/RoMEO service to provide additional information on German publishers' open access policies. As a nex...

Diamond Open Access in the quest for interdisciplinarity and excellence

Being a small independent scholarly journal owned by 3 Croatian universities, the Croatian Medical Journal (CMJ) needs to compete with many other biomedical journals, mostly belonging to the big commercial publishers. With the 2016 impact factor of 1.619, the CMJ seems to fare very well in this competition, positioning itself in the second quartile of its group. The CMJ is currently 25 years ol...

Open access barriers: An action research

ICT has provided the infrastructure to enable easy access to scientific information. Despite this, libraries are suffering from the rising of journal subscriptions. Additionally, the structure of scholarly publications is creating a wasteful situation where publicly funded research is being paid for several times over. University libraries are struggling to deal with these new realities at the ...

Basis for an Action Plan for Nutrition

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 ...