Some open access journals — those that don’t charge their readers a fee — require that researchers pay to publish with them. Removing author fees helps more researchers to publish their work.
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Lack of free access to research leads to discrimination, both in academia and for us all. The new guidance from the US is a huge step in the right direction.
Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.
Peer review is an essential part of academic publishing, but it can be exploitative, opaque and slow. There’s plenty journals, publishers and universities can do to make the system work better.
Blogs can be useful sources of data for the urban planning research community if the researchers know how to assess them critically.
Three-quarters of the academic journals that folded served the arts, social sciences and humanities. The losses weaken the academic communities and activities that formed around these journals.
Open access to COVID-19 research accelerated the development of solutions. The urgency of climate change demands the same approach, but more than half of Australian research is still behind paywalls.
The idea is publicly funded Australian research should be free for the public to read when published. But if it means taking money from universities struggling for research funding, that poses risks.
Expectations that academics raise funds themselves and aim to publish in certain ‘quality’ publications are shaping research and where it is published.
Can college professors rap their way into academic publishing? One professor makes an album to prove they can.
The rejection culture of academia is damaging. Rejections are inevitable, but there are better ways of managing the process that don’t leave individuals to bear the whole burden of coping.
In many other countries, a majority of research publications are now open access, but the system of paying for access still dominates academic publishing in Australia.
Budget cuts and outsourcing content have affected the amount and quality of science journalism. Scientists should learn to communicate their own findings directly and clearly to the public.
Universities that pay academics to publish their research should do so with caution.
Journal comments are responses to previously published articles. The gender disparity in the authorship of these comments both reflects and contributes to women’s opportunities in scientific research.
Scientific results are being rushed out quicker than ever to fight coronavirus. Here’s what you need to know about preprints, peer review and the difference between the two.
The UC libraries let their Elsevier journal subscriptions lapse and now the publisher has cut their online access. It’s a painful milestone in the fight UC hopes may transform how journals get paid.
Open access publishing still profits publishers, with little added value for researchers.
South Africa is ahead of the pack when it comes to research output in Africa. But this ranking is not a celebration.
In South Africa, open access publishing should be mandatory and publicly funded data generated by universities, should be freely available.
Top contributors
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Director, Open Access Australasia, Queensland University of Technology
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Program Lead, Innovation in Knowledge Communication, Curtin University
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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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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor, School of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology, University of Sydney
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Professor, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
