African academics and universities have been caught in the predatory journal web. It’s time for the continent’s universities to start taking this threat to their integrity seriously.
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South Africans’ access to important knowledge and research is incredibly limited. In this time of Open Access, why is this the case – and will it ever change?
To the mark the eighth annual Open Access Week, we asked our readers what they wanted to know about the initiative. Here are their questions with answers from our experts.
We have the technology and the will to expand open access to publicly funded research, but large vested interests are still putting up stiff resistance.
Open access, publication consultants and growing author lists: where is the academic-publishing industry heading?
Researchers who feel pressured to publish in high ranking journals are more likely to cut corners, or even commit academic fraud.
Public engagement of academics has increased enormously in recent decades. But this new level of engagement is producing problems and conflicts for which many academics are ill-prepared.
Just as no one ever assumed that everything in print was trustworthy, neither should that be the case for open access content.
Why do predatory and vanity academic publishers and conferences exist? Why are they flourishing now? And what can they tell us about the failings of academia?
A new policy by publisher Elsevier is threatening to wind back the gains made by the open access movement.
As you snuggle by the fire this holiday season to watch Love Actually, you should know that you’re also viewing the work of a published academic neuroscientist. That’s right – actor Colin Firth is cited…
The open-access movement, which aims to provide researchers and the public with free access to academic work, has been growing. But most academic research remains behind expensive paywalls, which decreases…
Most academic papers today are published only after some academic peers have had a chance to review the merits and limitations of the work. This seems like a good idea, but there is a growing movement…
Top contributors
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Director, Open Access Australasia, Queensland University of Technology
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Director of Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Rhodes University & Visiting Research Professor in Center for International Higher Education, Boston College, Rhodes University
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Lecturer in History of Medicine/Life Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Literature, Technology and Publishing, Birkbeck, University of London
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Emeritus Professor, University of Nottingham, (currently CEO and Senior Vice President of the PETRA Group), University of Nottingham
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Penn State
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
