Purpose 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...

Purpose – This paper aims to report on the findings of the second phase of the Behavioural strand of the EC‐funded PEER project ( http://www.peerproject.eu/ ). The paper seeks to explore authors' and readers' behaviours in relation to authors' peer‐reviewed accepted manuscripts in open...

Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss the question of “openness” in e‐Science. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on 12 in‐depth interviews with principal investigators, project managers and developers involved in UK e‐Science projects, together with supporting...