Preprints have become more widespread in a number of disciplines over the last few years, partly to counter the slow pace of the traditional publishing process and partly to allow authors to reach a broader audience. Knowledge Exchange, in collaboration with Research Consulting, investigated this phenomenon in order to explore the current place of preprints in the scholarly communication process.
The 23rd edition of the International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ElPub) took place in June 2019 in Marseille, France.
The posters and slides are online.
The OSPP (Open Science Policy Platform) asked their stakeholders some questions on the future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication. These are the answers prepared by the OPERAS Core Group. OPERAS is the European Research infrastructure for open scholarly communication in the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
At the end of August, as part of a second meeting on research equity, Ugandan National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST) and INASP brought together journal editors in Uganda to help improve them their publishing standards to meet the requirements of the Journal Publishing and Practice Standards (JPPS) and increase visibility of their journals and the research they contain.
Because the cost of continually upgrading technology can be both operationally and financially daunting, content providers too often go with the quick-and-easy option. Is that wise?
This article explores how the Scopus curation and re-evaluation processes help exclude poor-quality and predatory publications from Scopus. Also highlighted are the new approaches being developed to ensure both quality and breadth of coverage. Scopus content continues to be unrivalled and highly trusted.
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) 2019 Annual Conference will take place in Shanghai on 23-26 September. Themed ‘Open Science and Open Innovation’, the conference is part of a bigger event co-organised with the Shanghai Competitive Intelligence Forum (SCIF) and the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC) and generously hosted by Shanghai Library/Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of Shanghai (ISTIS). The conference will also present high-level ITOC (Information Trends and Opportunities Committee) and TACC (Technical Activities Coordinating Committee) workshops on 26th September 2019.
Registration is open.
The preliminary programme is online.
Despite growing awareness of predatory publishing and research on its market characteristics, the defining attributes of fraudulent journals remain controversial. This study aims to develop a better understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analysing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria. As a result, there is an overlap between journals and publishers included in blacklists and whitelists. Blacklists and whitelists differ in their criteria for quality and the weight given to different dimensions of quality.
A new model for developing a university press has been designed to be applicable to a range of business models, including subscription, open access and hybrid. The guiding principles, publishing stages and strategic points all constitute the building blocks necessary to implement and maintain a sustainable university press. The model highlights the overall importance of working in partnership and building relationships as key to developing and maintaining a successful press.
