Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review: Journal of Documentation: Vol 73, No 2

Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review: Journal of Documentation: Vol 73, No 2
Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs) represent an increasingly important part of the scholarly communication landscape. OAMJs, such as PLOS ONE, are large scale, broad scope journals that operate an open access business model (normally based on article-processing charges), and which employ a novel form of peer review, focussing on scientific “soundness” and eschewing judgement of novelty or importance. The purpose of this paper is to examine the discourses relating to OAMJs, and their place within scholarly publishing, and considers attitudes towards mega-journals within the academic community.