scholarly journals Sustainable open access for scholarly journals in 6 years - the incubator model at Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Sondervan ◽  
Fleur Stigter
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals

scholarly journals The Scholarly Communications Needs of Faculty: An Evidence-Based Foundation for the Development of Library Services

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Communications Services ◽  
Article Processing Charges ◽  
The University

Abstract Objectives – This exploratory research seeks to broadly understand the publishing behaviours and attitudes of faculty, across all disciplines, at the University of Saskatchewan in response to the growing significance of open access publishing and archiving. The objective for seeking this understanding is to discover the current and emerging needs of researchers in order to determine if scholarly communications services are in demand here and, if so, to provide an evidence-based foundation for the potential future development of such a program of services at the University Library, University of Saskatchewan. Methods – All faculty members at the University of Saskatchewan were sent personalized email invitations to participate in a short online survey during the month of November 2012. The survey was composed of four parts: Current Research and Publishing Activities/Behaviours; Open Access Behaviours, Awareness, and Attitudes; Needs Assessment; and Demographics. Descriptive and inferential statistics were calculated. Results – The survey elicited 291 complete responses – a 21.9% response rate. Results suggest that faculty already have a high level of support for the open access movement, and considerable awareness of it. However, there remains a lack of knowledge regarding their rights as authors, a low familiarity with tools available to support them in their scholarly communications activities, and substantial resistance to paying the article processing charges of some open access journals. Survey respondents also provided a considerable number of comments – perhaps an indication of their engagement with these issues and desire for a forum in which to discuss them. It is reasonable to speculate that those who chose not to respond to this survey likely have less interest in, and support of, open access. Hence, the scholarly communications needs of this larger group of non-respondents are conceivably even greater. Conclusion – Faculty at the University of Saskatchewan are in considerable need of scholarly communications services. Areas of most need include: advice and guidance on authors’ rights issues such as retention of copyright; more education and support with resources such as subject repositories; and additional assistance with article processing charges. The University Library could play a valuable role in increasing the research productivity and impact of faculty by aiding them in these areas.

scholarly journals A Survey of Scholarly Journals Using Open Journal Systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian D Edgar ◽  
John Willinsky
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Peer Reviewing ◽  
Limited Degree ◽  
Source Journal ◽  
Acceptance Rates ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
Open Journal Systems

A survey of 998 scholarly journals that use Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open source journal software platform, captures the characteristics of an emerging class of scholar-publisher open access journals. The journals in the sample follow traditional norms for peer-reviewing, acceptance rates, and disciplinary focus, but as a group are distinguished by the number that offer open access to their content, growth rates in new titles, participation rates from developing countries, and extremely low operating budgets. The survey also documents the limited degree to which open source software can alter a field of communication, for OJS appears to have created a third path, dedicated to maximizing access to research and scholarship, as an alternative to traditional scholarly society and commercial publishing routes.

Status and quality of open access journals in Scopus

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadamin Erfanmanesh
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Health Profession ◽  
Average Quality ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Open Access Journals

Purpose This study aims to provide an extensive overview of OA journals’ status and quality in 27 research areas based on all Scopus-indexed journals. It shows the volume of OA journals, proportion of publications in OA journals and the quality of these journals in comparison with subscription-based counterparts. Design/methodology/approach This research investigated 22,256 active peer-reviewed journals indexed by Scopus in 2015. Data were gathered using the Journal Metrics website. The current research adopted four indicators to compare the quality of OA and non-OA journals indexed in Scopus under each subject area, namely citedness rate, CiteScore, SNIP and SJR. Findings OA journals comprised approximately 17 per cent out of the total journals indexed by Scopus in 2015. The results revealed an uneven spread of OA journals across disciplines, ranged from 5.5 to 28.7 per cent. Studying the quality of journals as measured by CiteScore, SJR SNIP leads us to the finding that, in all research areas, except for health profession and nursing, non-OA journals attain statistically significant higher average quality than do OA journals. Originality/value Although OA publishing improves the visibility of scholarly journals, this increase is not always coupled with increase in journals’ impact and quality.

scholarly journals Co-building Open Science: Portrait of the University Library as a Publisher

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-523
Author(s):  
Emilie Barthet ◽  
Jean-Luc De Ochandiano ◽  
Irina S. Boldyreva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Online Publishing ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
University Library ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The University

Located in Lyon, France, the Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University is home to 30 000 students in law, management and humanities, around 600 academic staff and 18 research units. A dedicated research support team was implemented within the University library in 2015, to promote open access to their results. In 2017, answering to requests expressed by researchers to be helped in their online publishing, the library launched an in-house incubator for open access journals in social sciences and humanities. Staff from the research units was offered an open access standard-compliant publishing platform, technical and editorial assistance, training for publications, and program to have the backlog of issues addressed.The journal incubator raison d’être is to allow the University’s research to be available on an open access basis, to reinforce good open access journal publishing practices among research units and to improve the overall visibility of the research produced by Jean Moulin Lyon 3 researchers. The project quickly gathered momentum: two other higher educational institutions have approached the library to see if they could publish on the platform, thus expanding its role beyond the limits of its parent institution. The project played an instrumental role in forming, in late 2018, a network of French incubators and publishing platforms in social sciences and humanities. Named REPÈRES, the network promotes sharing good practices among public-funded open access publishers. The Jean Moulin Lyon 3 library project is a contribution to bibliodiversity since it supports an open access model and the use of vernacular languages (French in the case at hand). The project also reinforces the intertwining of academic and library staff for the common goal of scientific publishing. Thus, the library becomes a full participant of the scientific process.

scholarly journals Enclosure and emancipation in scholarly journals publishing: Overview, critical, global and communication perspectives

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-53
Author(s):  
Heather Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Commercial System ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Strong Potential ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Current State ◽  
Open Access Journals

The current state of scholarly communication is presented as one of contest between an increasingly commercial system that is dysfunctional and incompatible with the basic aims of scholarship, and emerging alternatives, particularly open access publishing and open access archiving. Two approaches to facilitating global participation in scholarly communication are contrasted; equity is seen as a superior goal to the donor model, which requires poverty or inequity to succeed. The current state of scholarly communication within the discipline of communication is examined. A relatively healthy percentage of not-for-profit publishers and at least 76 fully open access journals suggest strong potential for emancipating scholarship in communication from commercial imperatives. Specific sites of struggle and actions for scholars, including developing open access journals and self-archiving, are presented.

scholarly journals Editorial

2010 ◽  
pp. 158-160
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Learning Support ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Set Up

Welcome to the December 2010 issue of SiSAL Journal, a publication set up this year to disseminate ongoing research and practice within the field of self-access and out of class learning support. The journal is an online, open access publication whose pages receive, on average, around fifty views per day. The journal was recently evaluated by several indexes for suitability for inclusion. I am delighted to report that SiSAL Journal will be indexed by Academia.edu, DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals), EBSCO Publishing, Open J-Gate (open-access movement for scholarly journals), Ulrich’s Periodicals Directory and WilsonWeb Journal Directory. It is also available for download as an e-book on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk.

Open access resources for Mexican art

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-26
Author(s):  
Elsa Barberena ◽  
Evelin Garduño Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Mexican Art ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Open Access Resources

Free and unrestricted access to online educational or scholarly material, without subscription or registration requirements, seeks to eliminate traditional financial, legal and technical barriers. Indeed it provides greater accessibility to scholarly materials, substantially increasing the visibility of research. This article introduces the Mexican open access journals that specialize in art and culture, and analyzes their visibility in the databases of Latin American scholarly journals.

scholarly journals Open access editorial policies of SciELO health sciences journals

2021 ◽  
pp. 016555152110151
Author(s):  
Cristina Bojo-Canales ◽  
Remedios Melero
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Editorial Policies ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Caribbean

SciELO promotes open access and cooperative publication of scholarly journals, based mainly in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. SciELO was created to offer solutions to increase the visibility of participating journals and facilitate free access to their full texts. This work aims to analyse the open access editorial policies implemented by the health sciences journals of the SciELO network (411 journals at the time of this study) in terms of authors’ rights, copyright issues, self-archiving policies and openness. From SciELO health sciences journals network, 92% of the 411 journals use a Creative Commons licence, 89% require transfer of author copyright and 14% apply author processing charges. According to the past SHERPA/RoMEO taxonomy of self-archiving policies, 8.5% of the journals were classified as white, 81.5% blue and 10% green. The openness of journals calculated through the Open Access Spectrum approach was higher than 60% in more than 80% of the total journals. Out of the 411 journals in SciELO portals, 380 have their own website. Discrepancies were found between licences stated in SciELO compared with the ones used in their websites, mainly due to the lack of declared licences in either of the two sources or because the licences did not match. The licences used on the websites and in SciELO were also compared with their corresponding records in the Directory of Open Access Journals and Crossref, and again the differences were narrowly related to the data supplier.

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