Open access publishing models: opportunity or threat to scholarly and academic publishers?

Lamb, Christine

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“…Plausible causes of such a trend include the increasing number of scientists worldwide [7], the consequently larger number of discoveries worth communication to peers, public and posterity [8], as well as administrative pressure to publish e.g. in order to get or maintain postdoctoral and tenured positions at academic institutions [9].…”

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Publication Growth in Biological Sub-Fields: Patterns, Predictability and Sustainability

Pautasso

2012

Sustainability

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Abstract:Biologists are producing ever-increasing quantities of papers. The question arises of whether current rates of increase in scientific outputs are sustainable in the long term. I studied this issue using publication data from the Web of Science (1991Science ( -2010 for 18 biological sub-fields. In the majority of cases, an exponential regression explains more variation than a linear one in the number of papers published each year as a function of publication year. Exponential growth in publication numbers is clearly not sustainable. About 75% of the variation in publication growth among biological sub-fields over the two studied decades can be predicted by publication data from the first six years. Currently trendy fields such as structural biology, neuroscience and biomaterials cannot be expected to carry on growing at the current pace, because in a few decades they would produce more papers than the whole of biology combined. Synthetic and systems biology are problematic from the point of view of knowledge dissemination, because in these fields more than 80% of existing papers have been published over the last five years. The evidence presented here casts a shadow on how sustainable the recent increase in scientific publications can be in the long term.

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Publication Growth in Biological Sub-Fields: Patterns, Predictability and Sustainability

Pautasso

2012

Sustainability

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“…The most often cited consequence deals with economics and the failing business model of traditional scientific publishers (see for instance Lamb, 2004). With the invention of the printing press and ever since humanists like Justus Lipsius and Desiderius Erasmus had their works reproduced by the Antwerp publisher Christoffel Plantijn, there has been a strategic alignment between producers of knowledge (scholars, scientists, researchers) and publishers.…”

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Scholarly communication and social work in the Google era

Steyaert¹

2011

JSI

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J a n S T e ya e r T S c h o l a r ly c o m m u n I c aT I o n a n d S o c I a l w o r k I n T h e G o o G l e e r a A b s t r A c t Scholarly communication and social work in the Google eraIn this text, we outline how new media has an impact on international scholarly communication and focus on how these changes (can) influence the traditional gap between research and practice.We do so by describing the dreams of yesterday, the facts of today and the possible consequences for the near future.The most significant development on the interface between science and information technology is not so much the increased computational power but the increased availability of scientific information, be it communication between scientists through virtual libraries or discussion lists, or between scientists and students through electronic learning environments.Through this development of more digital scientific communication and more visibility of that communication in the public realm, the traditional schism between science and practice changes.

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“…At the authors' level the production process of a new article starts with reading a specific number of papers (3). In this connection, we assume that authors can only read those articles, which are published in a journal licensed by the author's library, or which are archived in an open access repository.…”

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“…In order to regain broad access to research findings, alternative ways of publishing scientific literature have been developed and receive increasing attention. These new models are summarized under the term "Open Access" [3].…”

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Open Access to Scientific Literature - Increasing Citations as an Incentive for Authors to Make Their Publications Freely Accessible

Bernius

Hanauske

2009

2009 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Open access publishing models: opportunity or threat to scholarly and academic publishers?

Cited by 22 publications

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Publication Growth in Biological Sub-Fields: Patterns, Predictability and Sustainability

Publication Growth in Biological Sub-Fields: Patterns, Predictability and Sustainability

Scholarly communication and social work in the Google era

Open Access to Scientific Literature - Increasing Citations as an Incentive for Authors to Make Their Publications Freely Accessible

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