A recent article by Leetaru (2016) in Forbes asked why academics had not embraced open access. After all, according to Leetaru, the academic community had been at the forefront, over the past two decades, of populating, using and promoting the spread of the Internet. The Internet, of course, is the medium for open access, yet it appears that open access regarding research findings is still not ...

Most, if not all, academic librarians are by now familiar with the term “predatory publishing.” Beall in 2012 defined predatory publishers as “those that unprofessionally exploit the gold open-access model for their own profit,” often taking advantage of junior faculty and graduate students [1]. This problem has grown at an almost exponential rate. Whereas Beall identified 23 suspected predator...

By wide margins, the House cast preliminary votes on Mar 2, 1995 for a bill that would prohibit federal agencies fi-om protecting wetlands or endangered species unless landowners are compensated for any resulting decline in their property's value. The bill, which is strongly opposed by the Clinton administration, would make it easier for landowners to file claims against the government when the...

This paper interrogates and situates theoretically from a Marxist perspective various aspects and tensions that inhere in the contemporary academic publishing environment. The focus of the article is on journal publishing. The paper examines both the expanding capitalist control of the academic publishing industry and some of the efforts being made by those seeking to resist and subvert the cap...

introduction: anger is one of ordinary and often healthy emotions in psychology. consequences of anger are expressed in literature, and philosophical, religious, and scientific texts throughout history. the aim of the present writing was to study anger from the viewpoints of different religions regarding islamic bases to develop islamic instruments and methods of assessment and management of an...

David W. Lewis is Dean of the University Library, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2013 David W. Lewis, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC The existence of a ubiquitous and cheap worldwide communications network that increasingly makes documents easily and freely available will require a transformati...