Open Access and the Serials Crisis: The Role of Academic Libraries

Jurchen, Sarah

doi:10.1080/07317131.2020.1728136

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“…Now, the digital development has shifted the roles of academic librarians from acquirers and caretakers of items in a collection to maintaining subscriptions and negotiating license terms for bundles of ebooks and online journals provided by international publishing houses -at steep prices (Suber 2012). As a result, enabling open-access publishing is one responsibility that has been added to the academic librarian's to-do list ( Jurchen 2020).…”

Section: Curating In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Curating collections in LAMs

Colbjørnsen¹,

Brenna²,

Edquist³

2022

Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition

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Section: Curating In Librariesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Curating collections in LAMs

Colbjørnsen¹,

Brenna²,

Edquist³

2022

Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Transition

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“…The gold open access model is becoming one of the most common business models under which new open access articles are being published (Jurchen, 2020;Piwowar et al, 2019), although this varies between different areas of research and geographic regions (Gumpenberger et al, 2013;Hadad & Aharony, 2022;Momeni et al, 2021;Segado-Boj et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2018). The gold open access model can exacerbate the monoculture of knowledge production, calling to mind previous findings that Western male faculty members are overrepresented in positions of power among the world's top sociology departments (Demeter & Toth, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Missing a golden opportunity? An analysis of publication trends by income level in the Directory of Open Access Journals 1987–2020

Druelinger

2023

Learned Publishing

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The growing prevalence of the gold open access model can exacerbate the monoculture of research and inequality in knowledge production. This study examines publication trends in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) journals by countries' income level from 1987 to 2020. By combining article metadata from journals listed in the DOAJ with World Bank country income data, this analysis examines the trends visible in plots of historical open access publication data. In 2020, the number of articles published in DOAJ journals by authors affiliated with high-income countries exceeds the sum of the other income categories. Article processing charge waivers seem to have more impact on high-and low-income countries than middle-income countries. The results show that the gold open access model has not been able to improve the extremely low number of open access articles from low-income regions. In addition, authors in middle-income countries publish in gold open access DOAJ journals at lower rates than authors based in other economic regions. The gold open access model is disadvantageous to researchers outside of high-income countries, highlighting the importance of supporting the diamond open access model as a potential means of improving global equity and epistemic diversity in knowledge production.

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“…Universities in the West have a crucial role to play in this monetisation of academic publishing by acting as subscription agents (Ware and Mabe, 2015). The inelastic demand-pricing relationship of journal subscription (Jurchen, 2020) and access to scientific knowledge has given rise to brandings of ‘prestigious journal’, ‘impact-factor’, ‘scientific journal ranking’, etc. which were initially devices for libraries to identify which journals to subscribe to base on demand.…”

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confidence: 99%

Digital platform for open and equitable sharing of scholarly knowledge in India

Koley¹,

Namdeo

Suchiradipta

et al. 2022

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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The academic publishing model is very inequitable currently – most commercial publishers demand exorbitant prices for access to journal articles, either through subscription or article processing charges. In this digital era, when publishing costs are negligible, and the peer review process is voluntary, it is unreasonable to have such high access barriers. In this article, we have explored the idea of an accessible and equitable knowledge dissemination platform using next-generation technologies and emerging models in publication to challenge the commercial publishers’ oligopoly in knowledge dissemination. Some of the upcoming practices, open peer review systems, transparent research data practices, and finally leveraging the advancements in digital technologies in publishing can be effective in creating efficient, transparent and cost-effective publishing systems. Encouraged by these recent developments, we have explored the possibilities of launching a digital publishing platform in India. We have analysed the existing open-source technologies like Open Journal System (OJS) and compared them with proprietary models like Editorial Manager to understand the gaps in both and explored avenues to conceive a cost-effective digital publishing platform. We hope that the open-access digital publishing platform will help the Indian journals upgrade their publishing systems up to the international standard, if not better, and help researchers explore a non-commercial avenue to publish open access articles.

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Open Access and the Serials Crisis: The Role of Academic Libraries

Cited by 25 publications

References 17 publications

Curating collections in LAMs

Curating collections in LAMs

Missing a golden opportunity? An analysis of publication trends by income level in the Directory of Open Access Journals 1987–2020

Digital platform for open and equitable sharing of scholarly knowledge in India

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