Open access megajournals: The publisher perspective (part 2: Operational realities)

Learned Publishing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 313-322

  Wakeling, Simon ^a   Spezi, Valérie ^b   Creaser, Claire ^b   Fry, Jenny ^c   Pinfield, Stephen ^a   Willett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85028703936     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: 17414857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/leap.1118     Document Type: Article

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