Open Access Journals and Academics' Behavior

Migheli, Matteo; Ramello, Giovanni B.

doi:10.1111/ecin.12131

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“…The responses reveal a good degree of familiarity, without noticeable gaps at any level of the academic hierarchy. This is consistent with the findings of other studies conducted on different samples (Xia, 2010;Migheli & Ramello, 2012). PhD students and post-doc fellows are less familiar with OA than the mean for the population, and familiarity increases steadily with academic rank (and hence with seniority).…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In Economics and Social Studies there is greater openness toward OA, though traditional publishing outlets continue to be very important. From this, and consistently with the previous literature, we can tentatively conclude that many discipline fields still regard OA journals as complementing, rather than substituting for, traditional journals (Faber Frandsen, 2009;Xia, 2010;Migheli & Ramello, 2012). The outlier here is Medicine, where nearly 40% of respondents say they direct publications to OA journals, with a 99% significant deviation from the mean.…”

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confidence: 85%

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Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice

Migheli

Ramello

2013

SSRN Journal

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The aim of this paper is to shed light on scholarly communication and its current trajectories by examining academics' perception of Open Access, while also providing a reference case for studying social norm change. In this respect, the issue of publication choice and the role of Open Access journals casts light on the changes affecting the scientific community and its institutional arrangements for validating and circulating new research. The empirical investigation conducted also offers a useful vantage point for gauging the importance of localised social norms in guiding and constraining behaviour. JEL classification: K19, Z13, O33, L17 15 This assertion is robustly confirmed by the recent statistics reported by the Italian National Agency for Evaluation of University Research (ANVUR; http://www.anvur.org/sites/anvurmiur/files/tabella_1_mediane_candidati_commissari_non_bib.pdf).). These give the median of publications over the past decade as books (column "libri"), articles or contributions to edited books (column "articoli su rivista e capitoli di libri") and first-tier journal articles ("articoli in riviste di fascia A"). Though there is wide variance between disciplines, so that the articles and contribution column for many already includes international publications, the 'first-tier journal

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Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice

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Ramello

2013

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“…scholars generally express strong support for OA, but do not subsequently transfer this enthusiasm to their publication choices. This is believed to have roots in the perceived low quality of OA journals (Migheli and Ramello 2014). Fortunately, however, APC-funded journals are generally of high reputation and prestige, so that they equal subscription ones in their citation performance, while outperforming other Gold journals funded by other means (Solomon et al 2013;Björk and Solomon 2012).…”

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The citation advantage of author-pays model: the case of Springer and Elsevier OA journals

2015

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Aiming to investigate the citation advantage of author-pays model, the present communication compares open access (OA) and Toll Access (TA) papers recognition in author-pays OA journals in 2007-2011. This is the first large scale study concentrating on all APC-funded OA journals published by Springer and Elsevier as the two greatest publishers authorizing and embracing the model. According to the research findings, the OA papers have been exponentially increased in recent years. They are, also, found to outperform the TA ones in their impacts whether in the annual comparisons or across disciplines. The annual OA citation advantages range from 21.36 % for 2009 to 49.71 % for 2008. Social Sciences and Humanities (with 3.14 %) and Natural Sciences (with 35.95 %) gain the lowest and the highest advantages, respectively. The citation advantage can be attributed to the higher visibility of the OA articles, implying the popularity and usefulness of the OA author-pays model to their readership. It may, also, have roots in the selectivity of the authors in choosing the author-pays outlet to publish their high-quality papers, signifying the overall prestige of the OA papers published in the model. Whatever may be the ultimate interpretation, i.e. correlation or causation, the OA citation advantage may encourage the authors who are willing to support OA movement, while seeking to get published in the well-established traditional journals. This may help approach the not-yetachieved critical mass necessary to evaluate the success of the model.

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“…Most of this research was conducted based on surveys to assess authors perceptions on different aspects: on a given discipline (e.g. Pelizzari, 2003;Antelman, 2006;Voronin, Myrzahmetov, & Bernstein, 2011;Mischo & Schlembach, 2011;Hahn, 2014;Migheli & Ramello, 2014;Hahn & Wyatt, 2014, Graziotin, 2014, on an university (Borges, 2006;Kim, 2010;Kim, 2011; Migué is, 2012;); or on a broader vision (country, Europe, World) (Swan & Brown, 2004;Nicholas, Huntington, & Rowlands, 2005;Fry et al 2009;Creaser, 2010. One may find a synoptic table of some of these, and other studies in Togia & Koroboli (2014).…”

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Narrowing the Gap Between Publication and Access: Is a Mandate Enough to Get Us Closer?

Borges¹,

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2019

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Changes brought about by the Internet to Scholarly Communication and the spread of Open Access movement, have made it possible to increase the number of potential readers of published research dramatically. This two-phase study aims, at first, to assert the satisfaction of the potential for increased open access to articles published by authors at the University of Coimbra, in a context when there was no stimulus for the openness of published science other than an institutional mandate set by the University policy on Open Access (“Acesso Livre”). The satisfaction of the access openness was measured by observing the actual archiving behavior of researchers (either directly or through their agents). We started by selecting the top journal titles used to publish the STEM research of the University of Coimbra (2004-2013) by using Thomson Reuters’ Science Citation Index (SCI). These titles were available at the University libraries or through online subscriptions, some of them in open access (21%). By checking the journals' policy at the time regarding self-archiving at the SHERPA/RoMEO service, we found that the percentage of articles in Open Access (OA) could rise to 80% if deposited at Estudo Geral, the Institutional Repository of the University of Coimbra, as prescribed by the Open Access Policy of the University. As we concluded by verifying the deposit status of every single paper of researchers of the University that published in those journals, this potential was far from being fulfilled, despite the existence of the institutional mandate and favorable editorial conditions. We concluded, therefore, that an institutional mandate was not sufficient by itself to fully implement an open access policy and to close the gap between publication and access. The second phase of the study, to follow, will rescan the status of published papers in a context where the Portuguese public funding agency, the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, introduced in 2014 a new significant stimulus for open access in science. The FCT Open Access Policy stipulates that publicly funded published research must be available as soon as possible in a repository of the Portuguese network of scientific repositories, RCAAP, which integrates the Estudo Geral.

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Open Access Journals and Academics' Behavior

Cited by 30 publications

References 26 publications

Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice

Open Access, Social Norms & Publication Choice

The citation advantage of author-pays model: the case of Springer and Elsevier OA journals

Narrowing the Gap Between Publication and Access: Is a Mandate Enough to Get Us Closer?

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