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Several authors are now opting for the fast-publication track. Journals also benefit from the rapid publication model. This post lists and shares additional information…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- March 11, 2015
Science is becoming open and how! Gone are the days when researchers and institutions believed in keeping scientific data behind strict and complex institutional…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- June 29, 2015
Dr. Caroline Sutton is an active expert on open access publishing and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing. She is also Director at Infrastructure Services for Open Access…
- Editage Insights
- September 4, 2014
The conventional pre-publication peer review process is time-consuming and may not be favorable to all scientific disciplines. Some journals and publishers offer rapid…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- February 13, 2015
There is a definitive shift in the publishing industry towards open access. The share of open access journal publishing is steadily increasing through the launch of new…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 23, 2017
In addition to predatory journals and publishers, researchers now need to be wary of predatory conferences as well. But how does one know if a conference is legitimate…
- Mohamad Mostafa
- October 25, 2017
Have you received an e-mail inviting you to submit your paper to a journal that sounds familiar and the list of editorial board members are well-credentialed…
- Editage Insights
- February 21, 2016
Predatory scholarly conferences pose a new threat to scholarly communications as researchers find themselves inundated with spam emails soliciting their attendance at…
- Jeffrey Beall
- July 29, 2015
The increasing popularity of open access has made it easy for individuals to set up bogus journals that guarantee publication but charge steep article-processing fees…
- Dr. Shazia Khanam
- October 21, 2013
Open access is steadily gaining momentum in academia, but many young researchers are still unclear about it. What is open access? What are the different venues for…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 22, 2017