Authors and electronic publishing: what authors want from the new technology

Open Access Publishing: What Authors Want

Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez are Science Librarians in Steacie Science & Engineering Library at York University; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. The authors would like to commend the York Libraries administration for their wholehearted support of Open Access initiatives at York. © Rajiv Nariani and Leila Fernandez. Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by...

Scholarly communication in the digital environment: what do authors want?

Executive summary This report summarises the key findings of a large-scale survey of journal authors' opinions, possibly the largest such survey ever carried out. We report here the views and attitudes of nearly 4,000 senior researchers from 97 countries in relation to what they want from the journals system at a time of change and uncertainty. There is no longer any doubt that the journals cri...

Predatory publishing: what authors, reviewers, and editors need to know.

The expansion of the Internet and the increasing pressure to provide new scientific content to the public as quickly as possible have led to rapid changes in the publishing industry. Recently, new publishing models have arisen, such as open access (content available to readers at no charge), hybrid (some combination of print and online content delivery), and early online access to print journal...

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