Equality, equity, and reality of open access on scholarly information

Seo, Jeong Wook; Chung, Hosik; Seo, Tae Sul; Jung, Youngim; Hwang, Eun Seong; Yun, Cheol Heui; Kim, Hyung Sun

doi:10.6087/kcse.97

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“…Library services using OA resources are the ultimate goal of current OA initiatives [18]. The production of OA documents is important, and the visibility of those open documents can be enhanced by the development of research technologies [19] and timely library services for various types of users not limited to academic scholars.…”

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Changes in the absolute numbers and proportions of open access articles from 2000 to 2021 based on the Web of Science Core Collection: a bibliometric study

Seo¹

2023

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Purpose: The ultimate goal of current open access (OA) initiatives is for library services to use OA resources. This study aimed to assess the infrastructure for OA scholarly information services by tabulating the number and proportion of OA articles in a literature database.Methods: We measured the absolute numbers and proportions of OA articles at different time points across various disciplines based on the Web of Science (WoS) database.Results: The number (proportion) of available OA articles between 2000 and 2021 in the WoS database was 12 million (32.4%). The number (proportion) of indexed OA articles in 1 year was 0.15 million (14.6%) in 2000 and 1.5 million (48.0%) in 2021. The proportion of OA by subject categories in the cumulative data was the highest in the multidisciplinary category (2000–2021, 79%; 2021, 89%), high in natural sciences (2000–2021, 21%–46%; 2021, 41%–62%) and health and medicine (2000–2021, 37%–40%; 2021, 52%–60%), and low in social sciences and others (2000–2021, 23%–32%; 2021, 36%–44%), engineering (2000–2021, 17%–33%; 2021, 31%–39%) and humanities and arts (2000–2021, 11%–22%; 2021, 28%–38%).Conclusion: Our study confirmed that increasingly many OA research papers have been published in the last 20 years, and the recent data show considerable promise for better services in the future. The proportions of OA articles differed among scholarly disciplines, and designing library services necessitates several considerations with regard to the customers’ demands, available OA resources, and strategic approaches to encourage the use of scholarly OA articles.

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Changes in the absolute numbers and proportions of open access articles from 2000 to 2021 based on the Web of Science Core Collection: a bibliometric study

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2023

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“…2. Inequity caused by unequal privileges could be reduced through equitable distribution of resources for scholarly communication (Seo et al, 2017). It can also be reduced by ensuring that researchers have unhindered access to knowledge through OA availability of research outputs.…”

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“I Am in a Privileged Situation”: Examining the Factors Promoting Inequity in Open Access Publishing

Ayeni

2023

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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Despite increasing advocacy for open access (OA), the uptake of OA in some disciplines has remained low. Existing studies have linked the low uptake in OA publishing in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) to disciplinary norm, limited funding to pay for article processing charges (APCs), and researchers' preferences. However, there is a growing concern about inequity in OA scholarly communication, as it has remained inaccessible and unaffordable to many researchers. This study therefore investigated inequity in OA publishing in Canada. Using semi‐structured interviews, qualitative data was collected from 20 professors from the HSS disciplines of research‐intensive universities in Canada. Data was analyzed with NVivo software following the reflexive thematic analysis approach. Findings revealed three main causes of inequity in OA publishing among the participants. These are the cost of APCs, unequal privileges, and gender disparities. Hence, there is a need for concerted efforts by funding agencies, stakeholders, higher education institutions, and researchers to promote equity in OA scholarly communication. Some recommendations for improving equity in OA publishing are provided in this paper.

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“…Para peneliti tidak memiliki anggaran yang cukup untuk hal tersebut, terlebih untuk para peneliti junior. Menurut Seo et al (2017) perlu adanya perombakan untuk alokasi dana publikasi hasil penelitian. Selain itu perlu dilakukan kerja sama antara lembaga penyedia dana atau penerbit untuk meringankan biaya publikasi akses terbuka (Ward & Joanie, 2016).…”

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Hambatan Implementasi Komunikasi Ilmiah Akses Terbuka: Tinjauan Sistematis

Devi

Rahmi

2021

baca.j.dok.inf.

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Barriers to the implementation of open access globally need to be studied further using a systematic review. The purpose of this study is to look at the barriers from various countries in implementing open access. This study uses a systematic review method with a qualitative approach. The data collection method is in the form of planning, implementation, and synthesis of search results. This study uses Google Scholar to capture all research on implementing scientific communication with open access in the global realm. The search results on Google Scholar using Boolean logic found 273 articles. After the elimination process based on research objectives became 16 articles. This study shows that the biggest obstacle in implementing open access is the perception of the researchers (33.3%) which indicates that the quality of open access journals is less guaranteed, that is, many of them fall into the category of predatory journals. In addition, another obstacle identified was policy (25.6%). The government or stakeholders must make policies that regulate the standards for the quality of open access journals, the editorial board, and the time intervals for publishing journals. Other obstacles include financial factors where many researchers have minimal research funds but open access publications require large funds (23.1%), followed by copyright (10.3%) and language (7.7%) because not all researchers are fluent in English. The results of this study can be used as a reference for further research in assessing the obstacles that have also been happened in Indonesia.

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Equality, equity, and reality of open access on scholarly information

Cited by 7 publications

References 16 publications

Changes in the absolute numbers and proportions of open access articles from 2000 to 2021 based on the Web of Science Core Collection: a bibliometric study

Changes in the absolute numbers and proportions of open access articles from 2000 to 2021 based on the Web of Science Core Collection: a bibliometric study

“I Am in a Privileged Situation”: Examining the Factors Promoting Inequity in Open Access Publishing

Hambatan Implementasi Komunikasi Ilmiah Akses Terbuka: Tinjauan Sistematis

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