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Scholarly Communication/Publication: Publishing Trends

This LibGuide provides researchers and postgraduate students with assistance and resources on publishing (conventional, open publishing and self-publishing) and related issues.

Trends

Articles

Affordable Publishing
An Elsevier African Megajournal Proposal Re-colonizing the university in Africa?
Elsevier is tricking authors into surrendering their rights
Enabling Higher Education Development through Challenging Commercial Academic Publishing
Four Berkeley professors launch new nonprofit to advance the publishing rights of authors in the digital age | PressReleasePoint
From the Open Road to the High Seas? Piracy, Damnation and Resistance in Academic Consumption of Publishing | Steffen Boehm - Academia.edu
How scholarship is being transformed (Create Change)
Impact of Social Sciences - How academics and their research make a difference
Impact of Social Sciences – The lack of reward mechanisms for public scholarship severely limits the future of public engagement in the academy.
In the Open Access Fight, Big Publishers Are the Biggest Hurdle
Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?
Jon Tennant: The Cost of Knowledge
On Open Access and journal futures | Haidy Geismar - Academia.edu
Open and closed | TLS
Print or Perish? Authors’ Attitudes Toward Electronic-Only Publication of Law Journals by Richard Danner, Kiril Kolev, Marguerite Most :: SSRN
Research Blogs and the Discussion of Scholarly Information
The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of non-commercial open access scholarly communications
The risk of open access becoming integrated into existing commercial publishing - the need of a global system of non-commercial open access scholarly communications
Scholarship: Beyond the paper : Nature : Nature Publishing Group
Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University | Imagining America
Scholastica finds niche in academic journal publishing - In Other News - Crain's Chicago Business
Scientific publishing is a rip-off. We fund the research – it should be free
South Africa: Huge journal profits hit universities - University World News
The vicious cycle of scholarly publishing
When Crises Collide: The Tension Between Null Results and Reproducible
Why we are not ready for radical changes in science publishing?

Double Dipping - Publishers

Academic Boycott of Publishers

Actions by Publishers

Reactions to Publishers' policies