Payment for publication is an increasingly prevalent component of the scholarly publishing
landscape, and librarians have a professional requirement to be aware of the current …

With this paper, we hope to foster debate about the place of open access (OA) in scholarly
publishing. After providing a background to OA's development and current state, we …

Scholarly publishing has undergone major changes over the past 50 years. Funder
mandates and organisational reporting obligations have heralded the creation of open …

This paper proposes a new role for academic libraries as part of a wider 'research
practice'activity for research institutions, incorporating support, training and expertise in …

This paper reports the findings from a research project which focused on determining the
factors influencing acceptance of open access journals (OAJs) among Iranian medical …

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remove this page Build It and They Will Come? Support for Open Access in Australia …

Scholarly communication change and open access (OA) initiatives in Australia have
followed an Odyssean path in the last decade. The stop-start nature of early initiatives …

The study analyses open access publications across the 10 central universities of North East
India, focusing on publication trends, disciplinary distribution, citation impact, collaboration …

In this paper, we respond to five rebuttals to Kingsley and Kennan (2015). Four researchers
in the information systems field and a university library director of research infrastructure …

This research project examines Open Access journal publishing in Indonesia focusing
specifically on government policies. Using a multi-method approach, five studies were …