Some open access (OA) publishers charge authors fees to make their articles freely
available online. This paper reviews literature on article processing charges (APCs) that has …

Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide
during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article …

Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Objective Medical journals have a role in promoting representation of neurosurgeons who
speak primary languages other than English. We sought to characterize the language of …

This paper comes from the third stage (H‐3) of the long‐running Harbingers of Change
project (2015), which has investigated the scholarly communication beliefs and practices of …

It is widely accepted that science is universal by nature. However, to make science
universal, access to research findings is imperative. The open access model of publication …

There are many claims to the benefits of open access publishing in general and for Africa in
particular. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of scholarly journals expected to …

Research outputs are a form of testimony with researchers serving as expert testifiers.
Research outputs align with philosophical understandings of testimony, as research …

Article processing charges (APCs) ensure the financial viability of open access (OA)
scholarly journals. The present study analyses the number of gold OA articles published in …

While guest or honourary authorship in academic papers is a broadly and widely discussed
phenomenon in biomedical research, the issue of the use—or abuse—of article-processing …