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Feature of Transformative agreements
Academia and research libraries worldwide have been promoting and asserting for a change in the scholarly journal publishing ecosystem to move from a [...]
Does Journal Citation Indicator work as per Clarivate’s claim?
Clarivate Analytics, a big name in the field of research analytics, has announced an addition of a new metric “Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)” a rel [...]
Normalizing OA among Scholarly Publishing Community by Fully OA Publishing Agreements
Open Access or OA is an immediate, permanent, toll-free online access to the full texts of peer-reviewed research journal articles and free of most co [...]
Transparency in the APC waiver policy is needed to meet the goals of Open Access
Open access (OA) journals have made their content freely and openly available for anyone to read and re-use without having to pay for a subscription f [...]
Clarivate-ProQuest landscape and its effects on Library Market
Clarivate provides insights and analytics to fast-track the pace of innovation for improving the ways the world creates, protects, and advances innova [...]
Is Journal Impact Factor a Proxy for Quality Research?
There is a situational imperative to dictate a ‘publish or perish’ credo within the academic group. As, publishing has benefits of career advancement, [...]
Article Sharing Framework and EU’s Copyright Directive
Scholarly collaboration networks or SCNs have made possible the rapid and efficient dissemination of information within the academic community. Platfo [...]
Digital Books – A Hope for Revival of Monograph Publication
Global pandemic with a heightened sense of urgency created momentum that is revolutionizing strategies developed by institutions and publishers worldw [...]
Are social science researchers writing articles that fulfill the bare minimum needs of a journal article?
An independent researcher investigated how often essential details of the research process are present in the journal article.
A minimum general ex [...]
Advantages of Training the Peer Reviewer
The peer review system is the engine that keeps the scholarly journals functioning properly, ensuring the publishing of quality articles and enhances [...]