Purpose – Information about the former and current status of many scientific journals is summarized. Design …/methodology/approach – Newly‐created journals (sometimes based on old ones), cessation of issues, journals incorporated into others, merged and … split journals are mentioned. Information about a large number of scientific publishers (publishing houses, scientific …

systematised. Scientific journals, newsletters and magazines of mycological scope, along with their publishers, are presented …

of authors to publishing in OA journals were; and what authors felt were the implications of OA publishing. Design …

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 … their place within scholarly publishing, and considers attitudes towards mega-journals within the academic community. Design …

engineering” journals in Science Citation Index. Journal papers cited in these papers (14,618 extracted from 17,015 citations in … all) were analyzed to discover the core source journals for aerospace research. The availability of the core journals in … research institutions are in China and the USA. Journals are the most important information resources. While 20 per cent of …

considered as trustees of both journals and their stocks of knowledge. Their profiles and multiple roles are elucidated and …