Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. The total
number of articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science has grown exponentially in recent …

The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers
of such journals expand, in so far as they undermine scientific integrity, quality, and …

Transformative agreements, also known as 'offsetting','read and publish', or 'publish and
read'agreements, have shifted the focus of scholarly journal licensing from cost containment …

We aim to estimate the total amount of article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish
open access (OA) in journals controlled by the five large commercial publishers (Elsevier …

The emergence of open access (OA) publishing has altered incentives and opportunities for
academic stakeholders and publishers. These changes have yielded a variety of new …

Open access (OA) publishing has created new academic and economic niches in
contemporary science. OA journals offer numerous publication outlets with varying editorial …

This introductory article looks beyond the conventional framing of open access (OA) debates
in terms of paywalls and copyrights, to examine the historical processes, institutional and …

We study the phenomenon of the big deal, a subscription model for scientific journals that
emerged at the turn of the millennium aimed especially at library consortia, which were …

Open access (OA) publishing is often viewed as a promising solution for the future of
scholarly publishing, as it has the potential to reduce global inequalities in access to …

There is no clear-cut boundary between Free and Open Source Software and Open
Scholarship, and the histories, practices, and fundamental principles between the two …