Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing

Tennant et al. have authored Ten Myths Around Open Scholarly Publishing. I find it interesting that the "'Myths’ were identified through a discussion on Twitter and then distilled into the ten most prevalent by the authors" (Tennant et al., 2019).

The team presented these ten myths:

1. Preprints get your research scooped;
2. Journal Impact Factor and journal branding are important quality measures;
3. Peer review proves trustworthiness;
4. Peer review improves the quality of reported results;
5. Open Access creates predatory publishers;
6. Copyright transfer protects authors;
7. Paying to publish is necessary;
8. Embargo periods are required;
9. Web of Science and Scopus are global knowledge databases;
10. Publishers add no value to scholarly communication.

-DD