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Volume 33 No 3 July 2020
| EDITORIAL: Publishing during pandemic: Innovation, collaboration, and change |
Pippa Smart, Editor in Chief, Learned Publishing |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers |
David Nicholas and Tatiana Polezhaeva, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia, Hamid R Jamali, Charles Sturt University, Australia, Eti Herman and Anthony Watkinson, CIBER Research Ltd, UK, Abdullah Abrizah, University of Malaya, Malaysia, Blanca Rodriguez, Universidad de León, Spain, Cherifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Université de Lyon, France, Jie Xu, Wuhan University, China, Marzena Swigon, Uniwersytet Warmińsko‐Mazurski, Poland |
| ORGIGINAL ARTICLE: The changed – and changing – landscape of serials publishing: Review of the literature on emerging models |
Eti Herman, David Dicholson, John Akeroyd and Anthony Watkinson, CIBER Research Ltd, UK , Gaelle Bequet, ISSN International Centre/CIEPS/Centro internacional del ISSN, France |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Measuring the scientific publications of double first‐class universities from mainland China |
Fangfang Wei, University of Jinan, China and Guijie Zhang, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China |
| ORGIGINAL ARTICLE: Chinese researchers' perceptions and use of open access journals: Results of an online questionnaire survey |
Jie Xu, Chen He, Zixian Wang and Wenhui Tang, Wuhan University, China,, Jing Su, Shaanxi Normal University, China, Yuanxiang Zeng, Sichuan University China, Fei Fang, Peking University, Beijing, China |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Normative drift and self‐correction in scholarly book publishing: The case of Makerere University |
François van Schalkwyk, University, Stellenbosch, South Africa |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Attitudes of researchers towards plagiarism: A study on a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Sumayyia D. Marar and Muaawia A. Hamza, Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sharing research with academia and beyond: Insights from early career researchers in Australia and Japan |
Margaret Merga, Edith Cowan University, Australia and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Thousands of Australian academics on the editorial boards of journals run by predatory publishers |
Mike Downes, Australia |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: Selling rights: Changes and challenges for rights professionals |
Clare Hodder, Rights2, UK |
| CASE STUDY: Collaborating for public access to scholarly publications: A case study of the partnership between the US Department of Energy and CHORUS |
H. Frederick Dylla, American Institute of Physics, USA, Jeffrey Salmon, U.S. Department of Energy, USA |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Evaluation of untrustworthy journals: Transition from formal criteria to a complex view |
Jiří Kratochvíl, Lukáš Plch, Martin Sebera and Eva Koriťáková, Masaryk University, Czech Republic |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Factors influencing the choice of a publication venue in library and information science |
Jongwook Lee and Kiduk Yang, Kyungpook National University, South Korea Dong‐Geun Oh, Keimyung University, South Korea |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Token‐curated registry in a scholarly journal: Can blockchain support journal communities? |
Artyom Kosmarski and Nikolay Gordiychuk, State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN), Russia |
| INDUSTRY UPDATE: The Platform for Responsible Editorial Policies: An initiative to foster editorial transparency in scholarly publishing |
Serge P.J.M. Horbach, Wytske M. Hepkema and Willem Halffman, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands |
| REVIEW: Four reports on the OA monograph: Review |
Tom Hill, Copyright Licensing NZ, New Zealand |
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 (January 2016), University Press Redux (October 2016 and September 2018), Discoverability (January 2017), Accessibility (January 2018) and Question Everything: the future of scholarly publishing (January 2019). The Future of Scholarly Publishing (January 2020)
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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 |
| Early Career Editor |
Megan Ainsworth, Liverpool University Press, UK |
| 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
Casey Busher, bepress, USA
Todd Carpenter, NISO, USA
Chris Graf, Wiley, UK
Phill Jones, Double L Digital, 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
Ann Michael, PLOS
Charlie Rapple, Kudos, UK
Shengli Ren, NSFC, China
Wayne Sime (ALPSP) Chief Executive ALPSP, UK
Andrew Stammer, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Stone, TBI Communications, USA
Helen (YH) Zhang, Zhejiang University Press, China |
