Ten hot topics around scholarly publishing

Jonathan P. Tennant; Harry Crane; Tom Crick; Jacinto Davila; Asura Enkhbayar; Johanna Havemann; Bianca Kramer; Ryan Martin; Paola Masuzzo; Andy Nobes; Curt Rice; Bárbara Rivera-López; Tony Ross-Hellauer; Susanne Sattler; Paul D. Thacker; Marc Vanholsbeeck

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Ten hot topics around scholarly publishing

Jonathan P. Tennant^*, Harry Crane, Tom Crick, Jacinto Davila, Asura Enkhbayar, Johanna Havemann, Bianca Kramer, Ryan Martin, Paola Masuzzo, Andy Nobes, Curt Rice, Bárbara Rivera-López, Tony Ross-Hellauer, Susanne Sattler, Paul D. Thacker, Marc Vanholsbeeck

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The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of 'Open Science' or 'Open Research' has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated topics. Evidence-based rational debate is regularly drowned out by misinformed or exaggerated rhetoric, which does not benefit the evolving system of scholarly communication. This article aims to provide a baseline evidence framework for ten of the most contested topics, in order to help frame and move forward discussions, practices, and policies. We address issues around preprints and scooping, the practice of copyright transfer, the function of peer review, predatory publishers, and the legitimacy of 'global' databases. These arguments and data will be a powerful tool against misinformation across wider academic research, policy and practice, and will inform changes within the rapidly evolving scholarly publishing system.

Original language	English
Article number	34
Journal	Publications
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020034
Publication status	Published - Jun 2019

Keywords

Copyright
Impact factor
Open access
Open science
Peer review
Research evaluation
Scholarly communication
Scopus
Web of science

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Business and International Management
Communication
Media Technology
Computer Science Applications
Library and Information Sciences

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