Libertas Academica

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Libertas Academica (LA) is an open access academic journal publisher specializing in the biological sciences and clinical medicine. It was acquired by SAGE Publications in September 2016. [1]

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Background

Libertas Academica is a publisher of open access ("OA") scientific, technical and medical journals. It is privately funded and was founded specifically to publish OA journals. It was established in late 2004 with the launch of two journals, Evolutionary Bioinformatics and Cancer Informatics. Additional journals have been published since. It was included on a list of "predatory" open access publishers in 2010 [2] but later removed.[ when? ] In 2013, a sham study reporting that a compound isolated from lichen can kill cancer cells was submitted to one of the journals published by Libertas for peer review. After review, the sham study was correctly rejected for publication. [3]

Journal indexing and archiving

As articles become suitable, indexing on DOAJ, PubMed, and MEDLINE is sought for all journals, as is archiving in PubMed Central. Articles also appear on indexes and repositories, including OAIster and Pubget. The publisher offers an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

Green and Gold OA

SHERPA/RoMEO has identified LA as a Green OA publisher. [4] This means that authors are permitted to archive their work prior to and after publication. LA is also a gold OA publisher because all articles are freely available online immediately upon publication.

All articles, including meta-data and supplementary files, are published under the Creative Commons Attribution license (often referred to as the "CC-BY" license). This means that:

Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.

All journals fully indexed by DOAJ have been awarded the SPARC Europe Seal owing to the use of this copyright policy. [5]

Subject home pages

Pages containing the most recent papers published in the entire set of journals are available for some subjects, including bioinformatics, biology, biomarkers, cancer, chemistry, drugs & therapeutics, genes & therapeutics, and medicine.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open access</span> Research publications distributed freely online

Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. Under some models of open access publishing, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright.

PubMed is a free search engine accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health maintain the database as part of the Entrez system of information retrieval.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Directory of Open Access Journals</span> Curated list of peer-reviewed Open-Access journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a website that hosts a community-curated list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA). It was launched in 2003 with 300 open access journals. The project defines open access journals as scientific and scholarly journals making all their content available for free, without delay or user-registration requirement, and meeting high quality standards, notably by exercising peer review or editorial quality control. DOAJ defines those as open access journals where an open license is used so that any user is allowed immediate free access to the works published in the journal and is permitted to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of [the] articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose. The mission of DOAJ is to "increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Postprint</span> Electronic version of a scholarly manuscript after peer review

A postprint is a digital draft of a research journal article after it has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication, but before it has been typeset and formatted by the journal.

A hybrid open-access journal is a subscription journal in which some of the articles are open access. This status typically requires the payment of a publication fee to the publisher in order to publish an article open access, in addition to the continued payment of subscriptions to access all other content. Strictly speaking, the term "hybrid open-access journal" is incorrect, possibly misleading, as using the same logic such journals could also be called "hybrid subscription journals". Simply using the term "hybrid access journal" is accurate.

SHERPA is an organisation originally set up in 2002 to run and manage the SHERPA Project.

<i>Biomarker Insights</i> Academic journal

Biomarker Insights is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on biomarkers and their clinical applications. The journal aims to be a venue for rapid communications in the field. The journal was established in 2006 and was originally published by Libertas Academica. SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. The editor in chief is Karen Pulford.

<i>Cancer Informatics</i> Academic journal

Cancer Informatics is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal focusing on the application of computational biology to cancer research. It was established in 2005 and was originally published by Libertas Academica. SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. The editor in chief is J. T. Efird.

<i>Evolutionary Bioinformatics</i> Peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on computational biology in the study of evolution

Evolutionary Bioinformatics is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal focusing on computational biology in the study of evolution. The journal was established in 2005 by Allen Rodrigo and is currently edited by Dennis Wall. It was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016.

<i>Drug Target Insights</i> Academic journal

Drug Target Insights is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on drug treatment targets and clinical therapeutics. The journal was founded in 2006 by Monica Milani and is currently edited by Giulio Zuanetti. It was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. In 2020, the journal was transferred to AboutScience Srl.

<i>Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology</i> Academic journal

Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on clinical applications of oncology. The journal was founded in 2007, and was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. The editor in chief is William Chi-shing Cho.

<i>Bioinformatics and Biology Insights</i> Academic journal

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal focusing on the application of bioinformatics to biological research. The journal was originally published by Libertas Academica, but SAGE Publications became the publisher in September 2016. The journal is edited by Erich Bornberg-Bauer.

An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires or recommends researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their published, peer-reviewed journal articles and conference papers open access (1) by self-archiving their final, peer-reviewed drafts in a freely accessible institutional repository or disciplinary repository or (2) by publishing them in an open-access journal or both.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association</span> Industry association in scholarly publishing

The Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association of open access journal and book publishers. Having started with an exclusive focus on open access journals, it has since expanded its activities to include matters pertaining to open access books and open scholarly infrastructure.

<i>Open Biology</i> Academic journal

Open Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Royal Society covering biology at the molecular and cellular levels. The first issue was published in September 2011 with an editorial about the launch of the journal. All papers are made freely available under an open access model immediately on publication. The editor-in-chief is Jonathon Pines appointed in 2020.

This is a summary of the different copyright policies of academic publishers for books, book chapters, and journal articles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Predatory publishing</span> Fraudulent business model for scientific publications

Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. The phenomenon of "open access predatory publishers" was first noticed by Jeffrey Beall, when he described "publishers that are ready to publish any article for payment". However, criticisms about the label "predatory" have been raised. A lengthy review of the controversy started by Beall appears in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Who's Afraid of Peer Review?</span> Science article by John Bohannon

"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by Science correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open-access journals. Between January and August 2013, Bohannon submitted fake scientific papers to 304 journals owned by fee-charging open access publishers. The papers, writes Bohannon, "were designed with such grave and obvious scientific flaws that they should have been rejected immediately by editors and peer reviewers", but 60% of the journals accepted them. The article and associated data were published in the 4 October 2013 issue of Science as open access.

Kowsar is an STM publishing company which was founded in 2002 by S.M. Miri and Seyed-Moayed Alavian. Kowsar journals have been peer reviewed and are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution License Non Commercial 4.0. The company is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.

Ethics in Progress a Polish open access peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to ethics and philosophy, published electronically, mainly in English.

References

  1. ↑ "Libertas Academica Journals to be published by SAGE | SAGE Publications Inc". 2021-11-07. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  2. ↑ Beall, Jeffrey (April 2010). ""Predatory" Open-Access Scholarly Publishers". The Charleston Advisor. 11 (4): 10–17.
  3. ↑ Knox, Richard (3 October 2013). "Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, for a Fee". NPR.
  4. ↑ "SHERPA/RoMEO Search - Libertas Academica" . Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  5. ↑ "Directory of open access journals: SPARC Europe and the Directory of Open Access Journals Announce the Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals". 2008-04-23. Archived from the original on 2009-12-12. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
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