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Open Access Mega Journals
Mega journals are a recent publishing phenomenon. They are open access journals and constitute a major departure from traditional scholarly journal publishing on several levels, and in particular the way they approach peer review, journal scope and size. The concept was pioneered by PLOS One, launched in 2006, and has now been emulated by almost all major publishers. Mega journals have a lower selectivity threshold; they are applying the concept of scientific soundness peer review. This means that they check that the research ahs been conducted ethically, the research methods are sound and valid and that the findings and conclusions are supported by the data. They do not attempt to make a judgement on the importance, significance and impact of the paper in the future, as conventional scholarly journals traditionally do. blablabla There a number of projects looking at the impact of mega journals on scholarly communications and publishing, e.g. http://oamj.org/