Open Access Infrastructure in Greece: Current Status, Challenges and Perspectives

Togia, Aspasia; Koseoglou, Eleftheria; Zapounidou, Sofia; Tsigilis, Nikolaos

doi:10.4000/proceedings.elpub.2018.26

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“…Most authors of course do not report any problems in the clearance process, but there is a considerable percentage that has problems mainly in understanding both the licenses to choose when depositing the work and in understanding the concepts of copyright. A small number of members of the academic community report difficulties in obtaining permission from publishers, which is likely expected given the limited number of publications published in journals or books in Greek institutional repositories (Togia et al 2018). Libraries, on the other hand, are more likely to declare they do not have a copyright clearance policy.…”

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Institutional repositories and copyright in Greek academic libraries

Kyprianos

Lygnou

2022

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Institutional repositories were created to collect, preserve, and make available the academic institution's scientific output. The purpose of this study is to investigate and illustrate how Greek academic libraries with institutional repositories deal with copyright challenges. The study aims to identify and describe if institutional repository managers apply a certain copyright clearance protocol, the problems they encounter, and how they deal with them. For this study, a quantitative research method based on questionnaires was employed. The questionnaire consisted of twenty-nine (29) questions separated into three (3) sections and was sent to thirty-one (31) academic libraries. According to the survey results, the majority of academic libraries have an institutional repository and provide open access to its content. It was found that academic institutional repositories face intellectual property difficulties. The biggest issue highlighted was a lack of knowledge of the notion of copyright. Finally, communication amongst libraries seems to be the foundation for developing a common policy and addressing the difficulties that have arisen in institutional repositories as a result of Greek copyright legislation limits.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Institutional repositories and copyright in Greek academic libraries

Kyprianos

Lygnou

2022

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“…van Leeuwen et al (2018) have found that the Gold OA publishing in Denmark, The Netherlands, and Switzerland, though relatively low, is becoming increasingly important and shows slow growth. Togia et al (2018) while observing a significant increase in OAJs in Greece reveal that majority of the OAJs are published in the fields of Arts/Humanities, Social Sciences and Medical Sciences with academic institutions and societies in lead in terms of publishing OAJs followed by research centers and commercial publishers. Liu and Li (2018) on "examining the characteristics and evolutionary trends of open access (OA) publications in natural and social sciences" observe a dramatic growth of OAJs in both the fields.…”

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Evolving landscape of scholarly journals in open access environment

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Gupta

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Purpose Open access journals (OAJs) offer immediate, free and unrestricted online access to the scholarly literature. The purpose of this study is to trace the status and characteristics of OAJs published across the globe. Various trends that have evolved in OAJ market have been studied. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on data collected from one of the largest OA journal directory – Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The data were downloaded on 02 January 2018 and details of OAJs added to DOAJ till 31 December 2018 were harvested, codified and further analyzed in SPSS software. A Microsoft-Excel template application – MAKESENS – developed by Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) in 2002, was explored to perform Mann–Kendall Test and Sen’s Slope Estimates. Findings A less score of OAJs offer access to their archival content. An increasing trend is witnessed in the OAJ publishing with Elsevier, Sciendo and BioMed Central (BMC) as the top publishers. Majority of publishers are from high-income zone countries, followed by upper-middle and lower-middle zone countries. Majority of OA publishers are from the UK, Indonesia and Brazil. A lesser score of journals offer article processing charges and/or author submission charges. Majority of OAJs from high- and lower-middle-income zone countries levy submission/processing charge to authors compared to OA journals from upper-middle- and lower-income zone countries (p < 0.01). OJS stays a prioritized platform for hosting OA journal content. Portico and CLOCKSS/LOCKSS are mostly used for long-term preservation purposes. Majority of OAJs from high-income zone countries participate in digital arching initiatives compared to ones from other income zones. Majority of the journals adopt a peer review (double-blind peer review, blind peer review, peer review and open peer review) process for validation of their scholarly content. The time lag between submission and publication ranges from one to 53 weeks, with majority of OAJs having a time lag of 11-20 weeks. Creative Commons Licenses are mainly adopted by OAJs. Research limitations/implications As the study is based on the data offered by DOAJ, any gaps in the DOAJ data will also get reflected in the study. Further, there might be other OAJs also that have yet to show compliance with DOAJ standards and get indexed with it. Originality/value The study tries to showcase the current status and characteristics of OAJs.

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