You have probably received spam e-mail solicitations from previously unknownpublishers inviting you to submit amanuscript to one of their journals, join an editorial board, or, perhaps, complete an ad hoc peer review of a scholarly manuscript. In fact, if you are like most researchers in the biomedical sciences, you have probably received such e-mails on a daily basis. Most of these spam e-mail...

BACKGROUND Web-based delivery of educational programmes is becoming increasingly popular and is expected to expand, especially in medicine. The successful implementation of these programmes is reliant on their ability to provide access to web based materials, including high quality published work. Publishers' responses to requests to access health literature in the context of developing an elec...

I analyze a model where two independent regulators in two open economies strategically set regulatory stringency in their domestic lemon market. Since firms are allowed to enter either market, foreign regulation affects domestic firms’ outside options. I then link the regulations to the fundamentals of the two economies. When the difference in fundamentals between the two economies is moderate,...

The right to quiet has been defined as a public commons (Franklin, 1993). Public space in Australia is becoming increasingly sound designed. This presentation investigates the variety of approaches by sound artists who have installed public space drawing on the three year ARC Australian Sound Design Project's research, website, http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au and public outreach Hearing P...

BACKGROUND A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and journals with highly questionable marketing and peer review practices. These so-called predatory publishers are causing unfounded negative publicity for open access publishing in general. Reports about this branch of e-business have so...

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As the Internet continues to grow, the Internet advertising industry flourishes as a means of reaching the appropriate market segments. Internet advertisers provide the monetary incentive for Internet publishers to display advertisements on their Web sites. Internet advertisers and publishers contract through a commissioner that takes care of the accounting issues, and earns a commission on the...

The consolidation of the scientific publishing industry has been the topic of much debate within and outside the scientific community, especially in relation to major publishers' high profit margins. However, the share of scientific output published in the journals of these major publishers, as well as its evolution over time and across various disciplines, has not yet been analyzed. This paper...