The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership

Piwowar, Heather; Priem, Jason; Orr, Richard

doi:10.1101/795310

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“…Fukuzawa (2017) asserts that the share of OA journals more than doubled between 2004 and 2012 moving from about 7-15% of all journals. This steady progress in OA has been corroborated by a recent groundbreaking preprint of Piwowar et al (2019). Based on their findings that about a third of all articles are OA and that these OA articles received more than half of all article views in 2019, they predict a sustained decline of the closed access model with 44% of all articles being available as OA and their share in article views rising to 70% by 2025.…”

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Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Boufarss

2020

Scientometrics

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The purpose of this study is to chart the scholarly journal landscape in the UAE in order to provide a scientific perspective on research productivity, distribution, and access in the country and lay the foundations for further research in this area. The study aims also to contribute to research endeavoring to paint a global picture of scholarly publishing. We carried out a mapping of scholarly journals published in the UAE compiled from international and local sources. The resulting journal list was studied focusing on the share of OA titles, language of publication, discipline, and type of publisher. Our results show that: (1) 534 journals are published in the UAE and that the share of OA is quite noteworthy with about 64% of all online journals; (2) the APC-based OA model is prevalent with around 75% of OA journals levying a publication fee; (3) UAE journals are predominantly in English while the number of Arabic-language journals is marginal; (4) science, technology and medicine prevail as the most prevalent subject areas of the journals; and (5) commercial publishers control most of the publications especially in the medical field. The study lays a foundation for further studies on scholarly journals in the UAE. The combination of regional indexes and international directories to measure the country's scholarly journal output can also be replicated and built upon for other countries where the major international bibliometric databases do not provide a comprehensive representation of scholarly publishing activities.

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Section: Share Of Oa Journalsmentioning

confidence: 89%

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Boufarss

2020

Scientometrics

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“…Heather Piwowar and her colleagues estimate that in 2019 31% of all journal articles were open access and these articles accounted for 52% of article views. By 2025, they project 44% of all articles will be open access, and 70% of article views are be to these open assess articles (Piwowar, et al, 2018 andOrr, 2019). So, a full open access publishing system does not seem beyond the realm of possibility.…”

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Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?

Lewis

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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This article uses Alan B. Krueger’s analysis of the music industry in his book Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life as a lens to consider the structure of scholarly publishing and what could happen to scholarly publishing going forward. Both the music industry and scholarly publishing are facing disruption as their products become digital. Digital content provides opportunities to a create a better product at lower prices and in the music industry this has happened. Scholarly publishing has not yet done so. Similarities and differences between the music industry and scholarly publishing will be considered. Like music, scholarly publishing appears to be a superstar industry. Both music and scholarly publishing are subject to piracy, which threatens revenue, though Napster was a greater disrupter than Sci-Hub seems to be. It also appears that for a variety of reasons market forces are not effective in driving changes in business models and practices in scholarly publishing, at least not at the rate we would expect given the changes in technology. After reviewing similarities and differences, the prospects for the future of scholarly publishing will be considered.

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“…Piwowar et al (2018) showed that the global proportion of open access articles was about 45% for those published in 2015, compared to around 5% before 1990. A more recent projection suggests that 44% of all outputs ever published will be freely accessible in 2025 (Piwowar et al, 2019).…”

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Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment

Huang

Neylon

Hosking

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Open Access to research outputs is becoming rapidly more important to the global research community and society. Changes are driven by funder mandates, institutional policy, grass-roots advocacy and culture change. It has been challenging to provide a robust, transparent and updateable analysis of progress towards open access that can inform these interventions, particularly at the institutional level. Here we propose a minimum reporting standard and present a large-scale analysis of open access progress across 1,207 institutions world-wide that shows substantial progress being made. The analysis detects responses that coincide with policy and funding interventions. Among the striking results are the high performance of Latin American and African universities, particularly for gold open access, whereas overall open access levels in Europe and North America are driven by repository-mediated access. We present a top-100 of global universities with the world's leading institutions achieving around 80% open access for 2017 publications.

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The Future of OA: A large-scale analysis projecting Open Access publication and readership

Cited by 67 publications

References 6 publications

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Is Scholarly Publishing Like Rock and Roll?

Evaluating institutional open access performance: Methodology, challenges and assessment

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