Helsingin yliopisto
During the spring, the Helsinki University Library has published a guide, Assessing open access journal quality, to help researchers find reliable publishers and identify dubious publishers – or predatory publishers. The guide includes checklists and other tools to help you choose a publication channel. There is a section dedicated to the much discussed MDPI and Frontiers publishers.
Challenges of becoming too popular – arXiv growth requires updating maintenance
The most important repository of mathematical and physical sciences already contains 1.6 million e-prints. arXiv provides a platform for sharing e-prints openly for peer review. Over the years arXiv has grown into a giant, encouraging the birth of similar repositories in other scientific fields. This has been a challenge for arXiv maintenance, both in the technical and administrative sense. In this article, bibliometrics expert Eva Isaksson describes arXiv history, development and challenges.
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