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The changing landscape of scholarly journals

Given the great potential of new technological advances, the scholarly publishing industry has not been effective in adopting real changes and developing more optimal scholarly communication systems (Lewis, 2020 ; Oppenheim et al., 2000 ; Pourret, 2020). Still, slow progress is happening in all areas of the publishing landscape (Fyfe et al., 2017). Besides the rapid development of technology, it could be expected that Open Access (OA) to journal articles, research data and other kinds of research output will become the default practice for communicating research results and the primary driver of changes. Published content is increasingly available in different formats more suitable for discovery, retrieval and computer processing. Editorial policies and practices are becoming more transparent, and standards are being developed to ensure more robust collaboration and faster development of science while respecting ethical standards and contributing to responsible research. The peer review process also emerges from the “black box”, allowing Open Access to the reviewers’ reports and/or identities. There are also lively discussions in the scholarly publishing community about authorship criteria (Aliukonis et al., 2020 ; Holcombe, 2019), journals’ added visibility and indexing (Edelmann & Schoßböck, 2020), multilingualism (Balula & Leão, 2021 ; Sivertsen, 2018), and measuring impact (Sugimoto & Larivière, 2018).

scholarly publishing, open access, journal

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