Die Zahl der wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen und der Wissenschaftsjournale steigt kontinuierlich. Wissenschaftler sehen sich in wachsendem Umfang neuer wissenschaftlicher Lektüre in ihrem Fachgebiet gegenüber und sind mit dem Anspruch konfrontiert, im Wettbewerb mit Fachkollegen eigene Ergebnisse sichtbar zu publizieren. Gleichzeitig ist die Einschätzung, welche Zeitschriften seriöse Publikationsorgane sind, zunehmend schwierig, insbesondere für Nicht-Wissenschaftler. Unter der Vielzahl neu gegründeter Online-Zeitschriften finden sich auch sogenannte Pseudo-Journale, deren Auswahl, Redaktion und Begutachtung der eingereichten Beiträge zuweilen intransparent ist oder wissenschaftlichen Standards nicht genügt. Darauf weisen die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina, die französische Académie des sciences und die britische Royal Society hin. Die Akademien haben gemeinsame Leitsätze für hochwertige Publikationen in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften formuliert. Diese wurden dem EU-Kommissar für Forschung Wissenschaft und Innovation, Carlos Moedas, gestern in Brüssel vorgestellt.
Publishing in open access journals is perfectly compatible with publishing in high-impact journals.
The UOC Virtual Library has launched the Third edition of the Observatory of High-Impact Open-Access Journals It aids access to open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and present in the Journal Citation Report (JCR) and SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR).
DOAI (Digital Open Access Identifier) is an alternate DOI (Digital Object Identifier) resolver that takes you to a free version of the requested article, when available.
To use it, replace dx.doi.org by doai.io in any DOI link.
ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information. We aggregate Open Access articles from a variety of sources – opening them up to commenting and discussion. Manuscripts submitted to ScienceOpen will be published Open Access and evaluated in a fully transparent Post-Publication Peer Review process.
Open Access 2020 is an international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.
vgl. dazu z.B. http://www.helmholtz.de/wissenschaftspolitik/globale-initiative-gestartet-5453/ und https://www.mpg.de/10397978/neue-initiative-zur-staerkung-von-open-access
ROAD provides a free access to a subset of the ISSN Register (1,8 millions of bibliographic records). This subset comprises bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access which have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network : journals, conference proceedings and academic repositories.
ROAD records are also downloadable as a MARC XML dump and are available as RDF triples.
The bibliographic records are enriched, when appropriate, by metadata about the coverage of the resources by indexing, abstracting, citation databases, registries and journal indicators.
ESAC is an initiative originated to
- address the challenges associated with the management of Open Access article charges (alias: APCs, article processing charges, article page charges, article fee etc.);
- start the discussion on efficient workflows involving all parties such as funders, libraries, authors, standardization initiatives, and publishers;
- propose good practices and proven workflows.
OBJECTIVES OF ESAC
- To keep transaction costs for Open Access article charges at a minimum level.
- To support and to contribute to the development of a transparent and efficient APC market.
QOAM is a market place for scientific and scholarly journals which publish articles in open access. Quality scoring of the journals in QOAM is based on academic crowd sourcing; price information includes institutional licensed pricing.