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January 2019 issue now online
Volume 32 No 1 January 2019
| EDITORIAL: Bring the facts, bust the myths |
Andrew Plume, Guest Editor, Learned Publishing |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Open access mythbusting: Testing two prevailing assumptions about the effects of open access adoption |
Dan Pollock, Silicon Guru Ltd, London, UK and Ann Michael, Delta Think Inc., Philadelphia, USA |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Is open access affordable? Why current models do not work and why we need internet-era transformation on of scholarly communications |
Toby Green, OECD Publishing, Paris, France |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Do we need to move from communication technology to user community? A new economic model of the journal as a club |
John Hartley and Ellie Rennie, Curtin University, Australia; Lucy Montgomery, Jason Potts, and Cameron Neylon, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: Do Journal Administrators solve the reviewer assignment problem as well as editors? Consideration of reviewer rigour and timeliness |
Noel McGlinchey, Tom Hunter, Jack Bromley, Ruth Fisher and Thomas Gaston, Wiley, Content Review, Oxford UK, Anna Debiec-Waszak, Wiley Research Insights, Oxford, UK |
| RESEARCH ARTICLE: How prevalent are plagiarized submissions? Global survey of editors |
Pippa Smart, PSP Consulting, Oxford, UK and Thomas Gaston, Wiley, Oxford, UK |
RESEARCH ARTICLE: Why do researchers decide to publish in questionable journals?
A review of the literature |
Tove Faber Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark, |
RESEARCH ARTICLE: Is the drive for reproducible science having a detrimental effect
on what is published? |
Chris Drummond, Digital Technologies Research Centre, National Research Council, Canada |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: How can we ensure visibility and diversity in research contributions? How the Contributor Role Taxonomy (CRediT) is helping the shift from authorship to contributorship |
Liz Allen, F1000, London, UK, Alison O’Connell, Collaborative Knowledge Foundation, San Francisco, USA and Veronique Kiermer, Executive Editor, PLOS, San Francisco, USA |
INDUSTRY UPDATE: Can we transform scholarly communication on with open source and
community-owned infrastructure? |
Alison McGonagle-O’Connell and Kristen Ratan Collaborative Knowledge Foundation,USA |
| INDISTRY UPDATE: Mythbusting AI: What is all the fuss about? |
Michael Upshall, Head of Business Development, UNSILO, Denmark |
| OPINION PIECE: Is the term ‘serials’ relevant any longer? Some thoughts on the matter… |
Eleanor I. Cook, Joyner Library, East Carolina University, USA and Regina Romano Reynolds, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., USA |
OPINION PIECE: Does the early career ‘publish or perish’ myth represent an opportunity
for the publishing industry? |
Gareth Dyke, Evolutionary Zoology, University of Debrecen, Hungary and The Charlesworth Group, UK |
| OPINION PIECE: The pursuit of publishing: Was a masters in publishing worthwhile? |
Charlotte Mauti, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK |
REVIEW: White paper: Paths to reference—how today’s students find and use
reference resources: Review |
Rachel Kessler, PrpQuest LLC, USA |
| Thanking our reviewers |
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About Learned Publishing
Read by publishers, librarians, academics and others working in publishing around the world Learned Publishing has a fully international authorship. Articles on all aspects of scholarly communication, from the author perspective to reviewing, technology, marketing and discoverability, new initiatives, readership, data, internationalization, and more, are included.
Promotion and dissemination of academic works has been a core publisher function for the last several hundred years of scholarly communications. As discussed in a recent Learned Publishing white paper, publishers are under more pressure than ever to reach readers beyond the traditional confines of journals and faculty tenure cycles. Read more about what Learned Publishing authors have been saying on the Reach & Impact of Research Articles Beyond the Academy
Occasional special issues are also produced including , Peer Review in January 2016 and University Press Redux in October 2016, Discoverability in January 2017, Accessability in January 2018 and the University Press Redux in September 2018. The theme for January 2019 is: Question Everything: the future of scholarly publishing. Published quarterly in print, Learned Publishing is distributed to all ALPSP members with online access to SSP members. All articles are free to view after 24 months.
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Editorial Board and Associate Editors
The editorial team and Learned Publishing board are dedicated to making sure the content is relevant, up-to-date and high quality.
Editor-in-Chief: Pippa Smart editor@alpsp.org
North American Editor: Lettie Conrad US-editor@alpsp.org
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Associate Editors
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Anthony Cond, Liverpool University Press, UK
Jenny Neophytou, Wiley, UK
Andrew Plume, Elsevier, UK
Adrian Stanley, Digital Science, USA |
| Statistical Editors |
Kornelia Junge, Wiley, Germany
Xiaofeng Wang, Chinese Laser Press, China |
| Reviews Editors |
Tom Hill, Copyright Licensing New Zealand, NZ
Rachel Kessler, ProQuest, USA |
Editorial Board
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Rick Anderson, SSP, and Assoc Dean, Marriott Library, University of Utah USA
Peter Ashman, The BMJ, UK
Casey Busher, bepress, USA
Todd Carpenter, NISO, USA
Chris Graf, Wiley, UK
Sun Huh, Hallym University and Korean Council of Science Editors, South Korea
Phill Jones, UK
Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associates, USA
Rachael Lammey, Crossref, UK
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies, USA
Monica McCormick, University of Delaware Library and Press, USA
Vivek Mehra, SAGE India, MD India
Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK
Shengli Ren, NSFC, China
Andrew Stammer, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Stone, TBI Communications, USA
Helen (YH) Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, China
Wayne Sime (ALPSP) Interim Chief Executive ALPSP, UK
Rick Anderson (SSP) Utah University Press, USA |
