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You’ve already heard from your peers that publishing in top journals is hard, given that their acceptance rate is currently under 10%. What can you do to increase your…
- Marisha Fonseca
- February 21, 2020
- 875 views
With a definitive shift towards open access in the academic publishing landscape, journals and publishers are providing more avenues for open access publishing. Mirror…
- Kakoli Majumder
- February 7, 2020
- 2k views
Have you heard of Plan S? It has been one of the hottest topics of discussion among academics over the past few months. Most of you might be aware of what it is. If you…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- May 9, 2019
- 5.1k views
A presubmission inquiry helps you find out if a journal would be interested in your research without you having to go through the processes of manuscript submission and…
- Fatima Qureshi
- March 28, 2019
- 5.6k views
French theoretical physicist and founder of the Dolos list, Professor Alexander Georges, shares his views on the emergence of predatory publishing and discusses how this…
- Professor Alexandre Georges
- March 14, 2019
- 1.9k views
Iryna Kuchma is the Open Access Programme Manager for EIFL, a not-for-profit organization that helps libraries enable access to knowledge in developing and transition…
- Jayashree Rajagopalan
- October 23, 2018
- 2.4k views
Predatory behavior is growing rapidly in the publishing industry: it is no longer just the predatory journals and publishers; even predatory conferences are on the rise…
- Kakoli Majumder
- August 2, 2018
- 7.7k views
Why are researchers choosing open access? A growing realization of the benefits of switching from the traditional subscription model to the open access model has…
- Sneha Kulkarni
- October 26, 2017
- 14.6k views
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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
- 30.4k views
Open access is the way forward for scholarly communication as it gives research maximum outreach. However, many researchers are not keen on publishing open access…
- Kakoli Majumder
- October 25, 2017
- 15.3k views