Electronic scholarly publishing and open access

Oppenheim, Charles

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“…The "scholarly communication crisis" (also known as the "publishing" or "serials" crisis) and the economically unsustainable trajectory of journal publishing have been well documented [1,2]. The primary triggers and implications of the crisis include the increase of journal subscription costs in excess of inflation; diminished university subscription rates as a result of the price barriers and reductions in library budgets; reduced public access to research results, especially where the research has been funded by federal or state agencies or where the potential public benefit is high; obstructions to access to those without university affiliations and researchers in economically disadvantaged countries or regions; and considerations of copyright, journal preservation, and the "publish or perish" demands of academic employment.…”

Section: The Scholarly Communication Crisis and Trends In Open Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result of a variety of factors, including developments in communication technologies and impecunious library budgets, academic publishing has undergone rapid transformation, particularly during the last thirty years [1][2][3][4]. The OA movement has gained momentum during this time, as scholars, libraries, institutions, and funding bodies have continued to respond to the ethical inequities and technical limitations of subscription-based academic publishing paradigms.…”

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Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities

Gross

Ryan

2015

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Abstract:It is widely known now that scholarly communication is in crisis, resting on an academic publishing model that is unsustainable. One response to this crisis has been the emergence of Open Access (OA) publishing, bringing scholarly literature out from behind a paywall and making it freely available to anyone online. Many research and academic libraries are facilitating the change to OA by establishing institutional repositories, supporting OA policies, and hosting OA journals. In addition, research funding bodies, such as the Australian Research Council (ARC), are mandating that all published grant research outputs be made available in OA, unless legal and contractual obligations prevent this. Despite these broader changes, not all scholars are aware of the new publishing environment. In particular, the rate of adoption of OA models in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) has historically been lower than Science, Technology and Medicine (STM) disciplines. Nevertheless, some local and international OA exemplars exist in HSS. At Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, the faculty-administered environmental humanities journal, Landscapes, was migrated to the institutional open access repository in 2013. Subsequently, researchers in the Faculty of Education and Arts were surveyed regarding their knowledge, understandings, and perceptions of OA publishing. The survey was also designed to elicit the barriers to OA publishing perceived or experienced by HSS researchers. This article will present the findings of our small faculty-based OA survey, with particular attention to HSS academics (and within this OPEN ACCESSPublications 2015, 3 66 subject group, particular attention to the arts and humanities), their perceptions of OA, and the impediments they encounter. We argue that OA publishing will continue to transform scholarship within the arts and humanities, especially through the role of institutional repositories. The "library-as-publisher" role offers the potential to transform academic and university-specific publishing activities. However, the ongoing training of university researchers and personnel is required to bring into balance their understandings of OA publisher and the demands of the broader Australian and international research environment.

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Section: The Scholarly Communication Crisis and Trends In Open Accessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities

Gross

Ryan

2015

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“…Generally the prices for individual subscription rates were much lower than institutional prices and often the subscription fee was associated with membership to a professional organization (Oppenheim 2008). However, as online editions of journals became more widely accessible, the business model for publishing and distribution of these materials changed dramatically (Wood 2005).…”

Section: The History Of Electronic Publishing and Electronic Journalsmentioning

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Asia-Pacific Science Education (APSE): expanding opportunities for publishing science education research

Martin

Chu

2015

Asia Pac. Sci. Educ.

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We are pleased to introduce a new journal, Asia-Pacific Science Education, which was created to provide researchers in the Asia-Pacific region with a central channel for disseminating research in local contexts about issues in science education to both science educators in the geographical region and researchers in the extended international community. APSE is unique in that our journal focuses on the publication of scholarly articles examining issues related to science teaching and learning in Asia as well as articles that address the issues facing science teachers and science learners who are members of the Asian Diaspora.1 As a result, we expect the scholarly works published in APSE will encompass diverse topics of interest that will be significant for a wide readership.In this introductory issue, we describe the origins of APSE and we share findings from an analysis of publication data from other major journals in the field that demonstrate a need for APSE. Next we share our vision for the role APSE can play in supporting the development of an academic community where studies conducted in the Asia-Pacific region and studies conducted with participants from the Asian Diaspora will be valued and accessed by scholars who are concerned about science education issues affecting these communities. We conclude by offering a detailed description of the unique features APSE offers our authors and readers, including a supportive peerreview process that is considerate of the challenges facing non-native English speakers. Finally, we explain how our open access (OA) publication model ensures that researchers and teachers anywhere in the world can access and read all content in our journal for free.

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“…The Open Access (OA) movement, which postulates gratis and unrestricted online access to publicly funded research findings for anyone, has significantly gained momentum in recent years (Oppenheim, 2008). Besides several hybrid models that are pushed primarily by publishers, two main ways of achieving "true" OA have emerged (for classifications, see Bernius, Hanauske, König, & Dugall, 2009;Jubb, 2011).…”

Section: Introduction and Research Motivationmentioning

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Exploring the effects of a transition to open access: Insights from a simulation study

Bernius

Hanauske

Dugall

et al. 2013

J Am Soc Inf Sci Tec

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The Open Access (OA) movement, which postulates gratis and unrestricted online access to publicly funded research findings, has significantly gained momentum in recent years. The two ways of achieving OA are self‐archiving of scientific work by the authors (Green OA) and publishing in OA journals (Gold OA). But there is still no consensus which model should be supported in particular. The aim of this simulation study is to discover mechanisms and predict developments that may lead to specific outcomes of possible market transformation scenarios. It contributes to theories related to OA by substantiating the argument of a citation advantage of OA articles and by visualizing the mechanisms of a journal system collapsing in the long‐term due to the continuation of the serials crisis. The practical contribution of this research stems from the integration of all market players: Decisions regarding potential financial support of OA models can be aligned with our findings, as well as the decision of a publisher to migrate his/her journals to Gold OA. Our results indicate that for scholarly communication in general, a transition to Green OA combined with a certain level of subscription‐based publishing and a migration of few top journals is the most beneficial development.

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Electronic scholarly publishing and open access

Cited by 38 publications

References 28 publications

Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities

Landscapes of Research: Perceptions of Open Access (OA) Publishing in the Arts and Humanities

Asia-Pacific Science Education (APSE): expanding opportunities for publishing science education research

Exploring the effects of a transition to open access: Insights from a simulation study

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