Discovering Open Access Engineering Journals

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 ...

Open-access mega-journals

Purpose – Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty...

Open-Access Journals

Open-Access Mega-Journals: A Bibliometric Profile

In this paper we present the first comprehensive bibliometric analysis of eleven open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs are a relatively recent phenomenon, and have been characterised as having four key characteristics: large size; broad disciplinary scope; a Gold-OA business model; and a peer-review policy that seeks to determine only the scientific soundness of the research rather than eval...

The Economics of Open-Access Journals

A new business model for scholarly journals, open access, has gained wide attention recently. An open-access journal’s articles are available over the Internet free of charge to all readers; revenue to cover publication costs comes from authors’ fees. In this paper, we present a model of the journals market. Drawing upon the emerging literature on two-sided markets, we highlight the features di...