[GOAL] Who benefits from for-profit open access publishing? A case study of Hindawi and Egypt

2015-04-10 Thread Heather Morrison
a blogpost by Jihane Salhab Heather Morrison Abstract The highly successful Egypt-based open access publisher Hindawi is presented as a model of quality publishing and commercial success. However, this success is not accompanied by obvious benefits to Egypt’s own research and researchers.

[GOAL] Re: CC-BY and open access question: who is the Licensor?

2015-04-10 Thread Graham Triggs
On 10 April 2015 at 20:00, Heather Morrison heather.morri...@uottawa.ca wrote: is PLOS and not the author that is the Licensor? That's a fair reading. Two reasons why this is important: 1. If other publishers are making works available to PLOS under CC-BY licenses, do they have the