2012
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Getting started publishing in OA journals
You (or perhaps your advisor) saw an advertisement for a new Open Access journal that looks like a good choice for publishing the paper you just completed. What’s the next step? A good place to start is a new FAQ put together by Paul Frantz, the Libraries’ Head of Reference. Open Access journals aren’t very [...]
Avoiding scams
Many of us saw the article in the Chronicle of Higher Ed last week, ‘Predatory’ Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish. Open access journals provide huge benefits for widespread readership, reduced costs of production and distribution for scholarship, and incentives to explore further innovation in scholarly publishing. It would appear that they [...]
High-impact open access journals
Librarians are sometimes asked to identify high-impact open access journals. That’s a hard question, in part because there’s not much consensus about how to measure journal impact. But we’ll try in this and some following posts. One approach is to look at statistics that measure the average number of citations that have occurred to articles published in [...]
