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New Web Services That Help Authors Choose Journals, Amy Louise Forrester, Bo-Christer Björk, Carol Tenopir
New Web Services That Help Authors Choose Journals, Amy Louise Forrester, Bo-Christer Björk, Carol Tenopir
School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works
The motivations for an author to choose a journal to submit to are complex and include factors relating to impact and prestige, service quality, and publication costs and policies. Authors require information about multiple characteristics of journals that may be difficult to obtain. This article compares and contrasts the new author-oriented journal comparison tools and services that have emerged to assist researchers in this important step of the scholarly publishing process. Many of these tools combine factors to provide full web-based manuscript submission decision tools, however all have limitations that reduce their usefulness.
Imagining A Gold Open Access Future: Attitudes, Behaviors, And Funding Scenarios Among Authors Of Academic Scholarship., Carol Tenopir, Elizabeth D. Dalton, Lisa Christian, Misty K. Jones, Mark Mccabe
Imagining A Gold Open Access Future: Attitudes, Behaviors, And Funding Scenarios Among Authors Of Academic Scholarship., Carol Tenopir, Elizabeth D. Dalton, Lisa Christian, Misty K. Jones, Mark Mccabe
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The viability of gold open access publishing models into the future will depend, in part, on the attitudes of authors toward open access (OA). In a survey of academics at four major research universities in North America, we examine academic authors’ opinions and behaviors toward gold OA. The study allows us to see what academics know and perceive about open access models, their current behavior in regard to publishing in OA, and possible future behavior. In particular, we gauge current attitudes to examine the perceived likelihood of various outcomes in an all-open access publishing scenario. We also survey how much …
Survey Of Scholarly Reading (Finland), Carol Tenopir, Lisa Christian, Elina Late
Survey Of Scholarly Reading (Finland), Carol Tenopir, Lisa Christian, Elina Late
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An survey of academics and phd students in Finland asked respondents a series of questions based on their scholarly reading behavior. For example, how they accessed scholarly publications and where the obtained them, reading format, and numbers of publications read per month. Respondents were also asked about their social media habits.