Fair use in US scholarly publishing

Fair use in US scholarly publishing

Fair use – the use of a limited amount of copyright material without permission – is ill-defined in law; the volume and variety of scholarly publishing is vast; publishers, editors, and authors can be informed or innocent, meticulous or careless, reticent or frank. No short article can adequately summarize this small but vital part of the publishing world. I will merely outline the range of cur...

Wikis in scholarly publishing

Scientific research is a process concerned with the creation, collective accumulation, contextualization, updating and maintenance of knowledge. Wikis provide an environment that allows to collectively accumulate, contextualize, update and maintain knowledge in a coherent and transparent fashion. Here, we examine the potential of wikis as platforms for scholarly publishing. In the hope to stimu...

Scholarly publishing threatened?

How many invitations did you receive last week to publish your latest research data in a journal with a name very similar to those of our classic scientific journals? The reason for this generosity must be the high chance of cheating researchers so that they pay article processing charges. These journals have been denominated 'predatory journals' and have interested a Canadian librarian, Charle...

Resources for Scholarly Publishing

Resources for Scholarly Publishing