The proliferation of sub-standard journals may be attributed to the proliferation of universities in Nigeria and this demands urgent attention.
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Australia’s top scientist Alan Finkel says too many poor quality research papers are being published in Australia, and the system may inadvertently encourage academics to behave badly.
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.
An urgent discussion is needed around the cost of research publications.
If South Africa’s Copyright Amendment Bill is accepted as is, it will be detrimental to academic content production.
Digital publishing hasn’t resulted in the free and open access to information many envisioned. Universities are increasingly fed up with a system they see as charging them for their own scholars’ labor.
Parents have engaged in forms of ‘sharenting’ for generations. The digital age has complicated things, but while critics make some valid points, they’re not seeing the forest for the trees.
Globally, the scholarly publishing system is in dire need of financial and legislative change.
Researchers should try to make their literature reviews as reliable as possible and adhere to strict standards.
Could the real open access please stand up? If more research was published according to true open access principles, we’d see better application of evidence for everyone’s benefit.
Everything you need to know about predatory publishers.
African Studies remains a colonised space rife with misrepresentation, homogenisation and essentialising about Africa.
The public loses when their only choices are inaccessible, impenetrable journal articles or overhyped click-bait about science. Scientists themselves need to step up and help bridge the divide.
The academic medical community largely views Wikipedia with suspicion. But some traditional journals are starting to take the site more seriously – and some journals work very closely with it.
There are many exciting new publishing opportunities opening up for academics who want to take their work beyond traditional spaces like journals.
Very few academics do a great deal to share their often important and relevant research with the general public. What’s holding them back?
African research is largely invisible, kept in the shadows by publishing barriers and structural obstacles. A platform built in Brazil and rolled out across the developing world could be the solution.
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.
Academic metrics are only problematic if they’re poorly implemented. If they’re used carefully, they can be a powerful tool to allow talent to rise to the top.
Metrics are changing the way research is conducted and funded, and for the worse. They need to be radically revised to measure genuine scientific output.
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University Librarian and Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Distinguished Professor of Marine Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor in Education & Technology, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor, University of Regensburg
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NHMRC Research Fellow, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Zoology and Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
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Professor, James Cook University
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Researcher, University of Pretoria
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Medical Doctor, Epidemiologist and Biostatistician, University of the Witwatersrand
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Penn State
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Professor, Griffith University
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Researcher, Nelson Mandela University