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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
- 440k views
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
- 295.5k views
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
- 76.5k views
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
- 73.1k views
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
- 64.9k views
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
- 39.3k views
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
- 38k views
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
- 37.8k views
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
- 36.6k views
As an author, are you interested in whether or not to publish your research in an open access (OA) journal? OA publishing has come under a lot of scrutiny in the…
- Tarryn Greenberg
- October 31, 2016
- 32.9k views