Changing dynamics of scholarly publication: a perspective towards open access publishing and the proposed one nation, one subscription policy of India

Koley, Moumita; Lala, Kanchan

doi:10.1007/s11192-022-04375-w

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“…It has been 20 years since the Budapest Open Access Initiative promoted the OA movement. Rizor and Holley (2014) reviewed the development history of OA and found that an immense number of studies have examined the OA movement, drawing research questions and investigating OA from various aspects (Björk & Solomon, 2012a, 2012b; Ji‐Xu et al, 2022; Koley & Lala, 2022; Solomon & Björk, 2012; Solomon & Björk, 2013; Suber, 2012). There are four major models of open access (i.e., Green, Gold, Bronze, and Diamond OA).…”

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Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

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Zhao

2022

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Although the open access citation advantage (OACA) has been discussed extensively, scholars lack a clear understanding of the mechanisms through which switching from subscription-based model to open access (OA) model affects the citation impact of a scholarly journal. Many journals have switched from subscription to OA, yet they later also flipped their preswitching articles (i.e., those under subscription model) to OA, thus leaving no subscription article to be compared with their postswitching OA counterparts. To detect the switching effect, our study instead focused on 60 journals that "reverse flipped" from OA to subscription. We use a difference-in-difference (DiD) analytical framework to analyze two propositions related to OACA, based on the bibliographic and citation data of pre-and postswitching publications in these journals. Our findings indicate that reverse flipping is unlikely to affect the journals' impact through changing the visibility of their articles. Instead, it could lead to a systematical shift in the submissions to the journals and thus considerably affect their impact. Our findings have important theoretical and practical implications for subsequent studies, funding agencies, and scholarly journals considering a reverse flip.

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Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

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2022

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“…2022 ist eine Studie erschienen, nach der im Jahr 2020 in Indien etwa 200 Millionen US-Dollar für "subscriptions of knowledge resources" ausgegeben wurden. 62 Gleichwohl haben nur wenige elitäre Institutionen in Indien Zugang erhalten. 63 Den meisten fehlt dafür schlicht das Geld.…”

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“…62 Gleichwohl haben nur wenige elitäre Institutionen in Indien Zugang erhalten. 63 Den meisten fehlt dafür schlicht das Geld. 64 Mittlerweile hat sich darum die indische Regierung dieses Themas angenommen.…”

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Zugang zu Wissen im Digitalen – ein rechtsvergleichendes Plädoyer

Durantaye¹

2022

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Theoretisch könnten wir in einer globalen Wissensgesellschaft leben. Praktisch tun wir dies nicht. Das hat unter anderem urheberrechtliche Gründe. Der Aufsatz beleuchtet exemplarisch, wie derzeit um das angemessene Maß an Zugang zu urheberrechtlich geschützten Inhalten gerungen wird. Er präsentiert dafür drei Fallbeispiele, die unterschiedlichen rechtlichen und kulturellen Kontexten entstammen. Die Beispiele bieten Anlass für grundsätzlichere Überlegungen, wie der Zugang zu Wissen im Digitalen strukturiert sein sollte und welchen Beitrag wir Wissenschaftler:innen leisten können, um Zugang zu Wissen zu verbessern.

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“…Another study highlights the OA publication across subscription and non-subscription models in diverse disciplines (Nazim et al, 2019). The study by Koley and Lala (2022b) highlights the changing dynamics of the open access scenario in India by showing the growth of various OA forms across disciplines. All these studies provide an empirical evidence that publishing and sharing scientific knowledge are changing in India.…”

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Limitations of the “Indian one nation, one subscription” policy proposal and a way forward

Koley

Lala

2023

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Indian science funding agencies have taken several policy measures to expedite access to scholarly knowledge. The proposed “one nation, one subscription” plan is one such initiative. The main aim of this initiative is to facilitate the availability and accessibility of research articles for all higher educational institutions (HEI). This paper reflects upon the suitability and aptness of this suggested policy through an analysis of Open Access (OA) publication trends. Using Scopus and other web sources, this article tracks how the OA publishing scenario (STEM fields) is changing in India and other top publishing countries. Based on the findings, we argue that a national subscription contract is limiting its scope by considering only the option of subscription and disregarding OA publishing options. However, subscription and open access publishing deals are short-term gains and will ultimately increase the dependency on commercial publishers. In the long term, encouraging research that helps solve local context-specific problems can only be addressed by strengthening the publishing infrastructure by national research funding agencies or respective higher educational institutions through publishing and promoting open access content.

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Changing dynamics of scholarly publication: a perspective towards open access publishing and the proposed one nation, one subscription policy of India

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

Rethinking the open access citation advantage: Evidence from the “reverse‐flipping” journals

Zugang zu Wissen im Digitalen – ein rechtsvergleichendes Plädoyer

Limitations of the “Indian one nation, one subscription” policy proposal and a way forward

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