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Academic authors favour peer review over open access.

Information World Review

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A massive 96.2% of academics support the system of peer review for publication of scholarly articles, according to a new survey from the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), based at University College, London.

The research, which was sponsored by The Publishers Association and the International Association of STM Publishers, was based on responses from 5,513 academics.

Although there was overwhelming support for peer review, many respondents were critical of the cost of journals and the length of time between submission and publication.

Nearly half believed ...

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