Behind the ScenesBehind the Scenes: How to Set Up a Diamond Open Access Journal?
By Muriel Strange
In this post, we explore the practical steps and considerations involved in setting up a Diamond Open Access (OA) journal.
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Behind the Scenes
OpinionStop Formatting Before the Desk Reject: A Proposal for Staged Submissions
By Bert Bakker & Jakob Kasper
Many flagship journals reject most manuscripts at the desk-review stage, with rates of 40–80% being common
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InterviewJOTE in Conversation: Michael Burke. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"
By Marcel Hobma & Stefan Gaillard
Professor of rhetoric at Utrecht University Michael Burke talks about failure and academic publishing. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"
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OpinionNot All That Shines Is Diamond: Why Open Access Publication Favors Rich Authors, Prestigious Universities and Industry-Funded Research
By Marcel Hobma
More and more researchers pay processing costs for publishing in Open Access, but these costs disadvantage authors who are female, early in their career or, from low-income countries.
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Behind the ScenesBecoming an Open Access Online Journal
By Stefan Gaillard & Max Bautista Perpinya
The how-to articles on setting up the infrastructure needed for a journal have been for us a rough sketch of a road that we have been traveling mostly, and proudly, off-road.
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