Availability of Open Access journals by scientific fields, specialization and Open Access regulations in the YERUN universities

Mañana-Rodríguez, Jorge; Guns, Raf

doi:10.1590/2318-0889202234e210064

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“…The OAL dataset comprised a subset of the publications' dataset containing information about 1,607 articles published between 2019 and 2021, with funding acknowledgments from 2019 projects. This subset allows us to test if there is a linear relationship between the expenditure in APC (as a fraction of the total funding) and the availability of OA journals in the various fields of knowledge calculating the OAL indicator (Mañana- Rodríguez & Guns, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For the last question (RQ5), we used the OAL indicator (Mañana- Rodríguez & Guns, 2022). The indicator provides a proxy for the starting position of projects in different fields concerning OA publication mandates: less abundance of OA journals without APCs in the fields in which the projects' published results might affect the proportion of funding used for APC expenses.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The cost of Open Access: Comparing public projects’ budgets and Article Processing Charges expenditure

Alonso-Álvarez,

Sastrón-Toledo,

Mañana-Rodríguez

2024

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Open Access (OA) publication often entails payment of Article Processing Charges (APCs), particularly in the so-called Hybrid and Gold journals. The growth of Gold OA publications linked to the development of OA mandates has forced funders, research institutions, and researchers to develop strategies to pay APCs. Thus, this research tries to estimate the percentage of the budget of the projects funded by the Spanish State Plan for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I, Spain's two main public project funding calls in Spain. The period studied is 2013-2019. Additionally, we study the relationships between publication intensity, funding attraction, and the availability of OA journals with APC expenditure at the area level. The results show that €43.67 million were spent on APCs, with most projects spending 3-8% of their budgets. However, numerous outliers with rates over 10% suggest further study on the role of APCs in the financial performance of the research activity. Estimations shown in the paper have to be taken cautiously as the APCs of the publications related to the projects studied in this analysis might not have been fully paid with the projects’ budget but using other funding strategies. Further research is needed to address the researchers’ decisions better when paying APCs. Finally, publication intensity, funding attraction, and the availability of OA journals are highly correlated with the investment in APCs in different fields. These results show that the current APC framework affects disciplines differently and raises questions about alternative publishing and funding models.

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Section: Oal Datasetmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Oal Calculationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The cost of Open Access: Comparing public projects’ budgets and Article Processing Charges expenditure

Alonso-Álvarez,

Sastrón-Toledo,

Mañana-Rodríguez

2024

Preprint

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Improving our understanding of open access: how it relates to funding, internationality of research and scientific leadership

2023

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As open publication has become a goal in scholarly communication, interest in how it relates to other features of the research process has grown. This paper focuses on the relationship between funding and open access (OA) in the Spanish National Research Council’s Web of Science publications in three scientific fields with different research practices, namely, Biology & Biomedicine (BIOL), Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS) and Materials Science (MATE). Firstly, the three fields are characterised in relation to OA practices (OA status and OA routes) and acknowledged funding (funding status and funding origin). Secondly, the relationship between OA and funding is explored, and the role of additional influential factors, such as the internationality of research and national/foreign leadership of papers, is unravelled through logistic regression. BIOL shows a higher OA share (66%) than do the other two fields (around 33%). Funded research shows higher OA rates than unfunded research in the experimental fields, but not in HSS, where it is related to a shift towards more publications with article-processing charges. The internationality of research, measured through international collaboration or foreign funding, increases OA, albeit with differences across fields. Foreign-funded papers are more likely to be led by foreign researchers in all three fields, but a foreign first author increases the chances of OA publication in HSS only, perhaps because Spanish leaders in this field have not internalised the importance of OA. The research’s policy implications are reviewed.

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Compliance with open access mandates and its effects on research visibility: the case of the Spanish National Plan of R&D

Sastrón-Toledo,

Alonso-Álvarez,

Mañana-Rodríguez

2024

Scientometrics

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Availability of Open Access journals by scientific fields, specialization and Open Access regulations in the YERUN universities

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

The cost of Open Access: Comparing public projects’ budgets and Article Processing Charges expenditure

The cost of Open Access: Comparing public projects’ budgets and Article Processing Charges expenditure

Improving our understanding of open access: how it relates to funding, internationality of research and scientific leadership

Compliance with open access mandates and its effects on research visibility: the case of the Spanish National Plan of R&D

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