Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review

Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review

Purpose: Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a n...

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Main Authors: Valerie Spezi, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Peter Willett
Format: Default Article
Published: 2017
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Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified
Information systems not elsewhere classified
Library and information studies not elsewhere classified
Open access
Mega-journals
Scholarly communication
Scholarly publishing
Research dissemination
Peer review
Article-processing charges
Information Systems
Library and Information Studies
Business and Management not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/22861
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