Open access publishers: The new players

Rodrigues, Rosângela Schwarz; Abadal, Ernest; Araújo, Breno Kricheldorf Hermes de

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“…In this study, commercial publishers managed 16.2% of the journals used in Social Sciences and 7.3% of the journals used in Humanities, Literature & Arts. These results seem to confirm that commercial publishers have had, historically, a low economic interest on these type of journals as their number have been traditionally low since the print era (Rodrigues et al, 2020). As Table 1 outlines, 60.5% of the money spent on APC during 2019 was directed towards the publication of 2443 documents (54.3%) in the areas of Health & Medical Sciences along with Life & Earth Sciences.…”

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Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation

Krauskopf

2021

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The National Agency of Research and Development from Chile is proposing, for the first time, a national OA policy aiming to ensure access to the scientific knowledge contained in publications resulting from research projects and graduate thesis. Since no information regarding APC expenditure in Chile is available, this study examined the cost of APC for the 2019 publications that included at least one Chilean affiliation. The total expenditure for the year 2019 was estimated at USD 9,129,939. The results confirm that almost one third of the total APC was spent on publications from Health & Medical Sciences, research area with the highest APC (USD 6000). Furthermore, five commercial publishers collected 52% of the total APC expenditure. Unfortunately, the cost of publishing in some journals is so high that it causes detrimental effects on the research capacity of under resourced individuals. In the Chilean scenario, APC is not well suited to scale as most universities do not have an OA budget to support researchers that are eager to publish their work in OA journals. Perhaps the implementation of an OA policy ought to be accompanied by sustainable APC funding grants aimed at supporting under resourced researchers that want to make their research freely available.

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Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation

Krauskopf

2021

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“…found that market power is an important driver of APCs, through market concentration, publisher size and, in particular, the choice of hybrid publishing model. On market concentration among OA journals, see also SchwarzRodrigues et al (2020).10 WhileBjörk (2017) estimated that the number of hybrid OA journals increased from approximately 2,000 in 2009 to nearly 10,000 in 2016 and the number of hybrid articles increased from 8,000 to 45,000 over the same period,Pinowar et al (2018, table 3) found that among a sample of 100,000 articles published between 2009 and 2015 in hybrid journals and indexed in the Web of Science, only 4.3% were open access. See alsoSTM (2018, 107f.…”

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Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

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Scheufen

2021

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Journal des Sçavans, was founded by Denis de Sallo, appeared already in January 1665 in Paris, reappeared after the French Revolution as the Journal des Savants, and still exists as a leading journal in the humanities. Only a few weeks later, Henry Oldenbourg, the first secretary of the Royal Society of London, established a second scholarly journal, the Philosophical Transactions, with a focus on science. The purpose of these journals was to formalize the extensive correspondence between philosophers and scientists. 1 In the 18th and the 19th century, more specialized journals gained in importance, most of which were published by learned societies. At the end of the 19th century, university presses too began to publish scholarly journals. Another traditional means of academic publishing are the various types of scholarly books, in particular monographs, edited volumes, reference works (specialist dictionaries, encyclopedias, and specialty reference manuals), and technical handbooks. 2 A narrow definition of academic works would exclude textbooks and books for the broader public. Shavell (2010, 337-39) employs four criteria to determine whether a journal or book is academic in nature: (1) the authors and/or the publisher are usually academics; (2) the readers are mainly academics; (3) the content is academic in character; (4) only low royalties are paid, if any.

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“…El acceso abierto ha impactado en el sistema editorial tradicional, propiciando la aparición de nuevos actores en el sistema, los editores de acceso abierto (Rodrigues et al, 2020) también forzando a las editoriales tradicionales como Elsevier, Springer-Nature y Sage, a crear divisiones de acceso abierto y a migrar hacia un nuevo sistema de financiación basado en el pago de tasas por parte de los autores (APC, Article Processing Charges) en vez del pago de las suscripciones por parte de los lectores.…”

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Ciencia abierta: un modelo con piezas por encajar

Abadal

2021

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La ciencia abierta constituye una transformación radical en la manera de llevar a cabo la investigación científica. Se trata de un nuevo modelo de hacer ciencia que se basa en el trabajo colaborativo entre personas de la academia y también en la apertura y la transparencia de todas las fases de la investigación (no solo la publicación final, sino también la recogida de datos, el peer review o los criterios de evaluación, entre otros aspectos). La ciencia abierta tiene sus antecedentes en el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) por quienes investigan y en la consolidación del acceso abierto a las publicaciones. Por otro lado, en su desarrollo también ha contado con tres elementos facilitadores: su conexión con los valores clásicos de la ciencia, la acción de responsables políticos con capacidad resolutiva en sus organizaciones, y el apoyo institucional, en especial de la Comisión Europea y de diversas agencias de financiación de la investigación. En el artículo se analizan diversas definiciones de ciencia abierta para destacar sus características fundamentales: apertura, transparencia y reutilización de contenidos. Se considera la ciencia abierta como un término «paraguas» que agrupa diversas piezas o elementos como el acceso abierto, los datos abiertos (FAIR, en sus siglas en inglés, findable, accessible, interoperable y reusable), la revisión abierta, el uso de preprints, la ciencia ciudadana y los nuevos modelos de evaluación. A pesar de que existe discrepancia sobre cuáles son esas piezas elementales, el artículo se centra en los seis elementos mencionados, repasa la situación actual de cada uno de ellos, y pone especial énfasis en su grado de desarrollo y en lo que aportan a la ciencia abierta. Se constata una notable diversidad en el desarrollo de cada una de las piezas y también la ausencia de una acción coordinada, lo que podría suponer una ralentización de las prácticas de ciencia abierta. A pesar de los destacados avances en acceso abierto, de la notable compartición de datos de investigación y de un respetable uso de preprints, se ha avanzado muy poco en el establecimiento de nuevas métricas y de nuevos modelos de evaluación, aun cuando estos son un elemento clave para incentivar la expansión de la ciencia abierta en todas las disciplinas.

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Open access publishers: The new players

Cited by 30 publications

References 21 publications

Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation

Article processing charge expenditure in Chile: The current situation

Economic perspectives on the future of academic publishing: Introduction to the special issue

Ciencia abierta: un modelo con piezas por encajar

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