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Open-access mega-journals: The publisher perspective (Part 2: operational realities)
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posted on 2018-12-06, 10:59 authored by Simon Wakeling, Valerie Spezi, Claire Creaser, Jenny FryJenny Fry, Stephen Pinfield, Peter WillettThis paper is the second of two Learned Publishing articles in which we
report the results of a series of interviews, with senior publishers and editors
exploring open access megajournals (OAMJs). Megajournals (of which
PLoS One is the best known example) represent a relatively new approach
to scholarly communication and can be characterized as large, broad-scope,
open access journals, which take an innovative approach to peer review,
basing acceptance decisions solely on the technical or scientific soundness
of the article. Based on interviews with 31 publishers and editors, this
paper reports the perceived cultural, operational, and technical challenges
associated with launching, growing, and maintaining a megajournal. We
find that overcoming these challenges while delivering the societal benefits
associated with OAMJs is seen to require significant investment in people
and systems, as well as an ongoing commitment to the model.
Funding
The research was funded by a grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/M010643/1).
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Learned PublishingVolume
30Issue
4Pages
313-322Citation
WAKELING, S. ... et al., 2017. Open-access mega-journals: The publisher perspective (Part 2: operational realities). Learned Publishing, 30(4), pp. 313-322.Publisher
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-08-11Publication date
2017-09-04Copyright date
2017Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1741-4857Publisher version
Language
- en