Open Access publishing versus Quality

25 February 2021 | Category: Open Access, Open Science, Publication strategy

Anna Besse-Lototskaya¹ and Marcel Zwietering² ¹ Programme leader WUR Open Science & Education, WUR Library, anna.besse@wur.nl ² Chair of Food Microbiology, Wageningen University & Research (WUR), marcel.zwietering@wur.nl ‘I want to be read’, the famous Dutch writer Multatuli (1820-1887) said. The most important outcome of  Open Access publishing is that more…

The WUR Journal Browser – the tool for Open Access publishing

22 February 2021 | Category: Open Access, Open Science, Publication strategy

Open Access publishing is becoming the standard in academics. Open Access publishing increases the accessibility, affordability and transparency of your research, and accordingly your scientific and societal impact. Furthermore, the Dutch Government, Wageningen University & Research and many major research funders often require you to make your scientific work publicly…

ORCID: all of your research output in one place

17 January 2018 | Category: Impact, ORCID, Publication strategy

Perhaps you have heard of ORCID: the unique, persistent identifier for researchers. ORCID distinguishes itself from other initiatives such as Academia and ResearchGate in how it identifies researchers; and this brings with it many advantages. This blog post introduces ORCID and explains how you can use it to its fullest…

Scholarly culture vs. copyright culture?

12 December 2017 | Category: Open Access, Publication strategy

Authors: Justine Post-Smithuis and Marijn Post. Social networking sites such as ResearchGate contain many illegal, publisher-owned PDFs that have been posted by academics. How important are copyright issues to you as a researcher or teacher of Wageningen University & Research (WUR)? Scholars and copyright A recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen…

Your scholarly wallet

25 April 2017 | Category: Publication strategy

Each of us has a number of different cards in our real-life wallet: driving license, ‘OV-chipkaart’, credit card, health insurance card, sports facilities card, etcetera. We complain occasionally that all this is a bit too much, especially when we have difficulty finding the right one. But let’s accept that these…

Watch out for predatory publishers!

14 November 2016 | Category: Open Access, Publication strategy

The dark side of the transitions towards an open access publishing system is that some publishers only try to make a profit out of this and just publish everything that is submitted without any peer review. When I recently checked a publication list of one our institutes I came across…

Citation advantage for Open Access publications

25 October 2016 | Category: Open Access, Publication strategy

Open access (OA) is free access to scientific information such as journal articles. The main argument for OA publishing is that the outcome of scientific studies should be available to the public, industries, third world countries etc. However, there is a more direct interest for the authors themselves. This blog…
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