scholarly journals Is open access publication useful for all research fields? Presence of funding, collaboration and impact

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 689-716
Author(s):  
Fernanda Morillo
Author(s):  
Takashi Hibiki

The article “One-dimensional drift-flux correlations for two-phase flow in medium-size channels” written by Takashi Hibiki, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 17 April 2019 without open access. After publication in Volume 1, Issue 2, page 85–100, the author(s) decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2020 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.


Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Carmen López-Vergara ◽  
Pilar Flores Asenjo ◽  
Alfonso Rosa-García

Technological development has transformed academic publication over the past two decades and new publication models, especially Open Access, have captured an important part of the publishing market, traditionally dominated by the Subscription publication model. Although Health Sciences have been one of the leading fields promoting Open Access, the perspectives of Health Science researchers on the benefits and possibilities of Open Access remain an open question. The present study sought to unveil the perspective of researchers on scientific publication decisions, in terms of the Subscription and Open Access publication model, Gold Road. With this aim, we surveyed Spanish researchers in Health Sciences. Our findings show that the value of publishing in Open Access journals increases as the experience of the researcher increases and the less she/he values the impact factor. Moreover, visibility and dissemination of the results are the main determinants of publication when choosing an Open Access journal as the first option. According to the response of the researchers, the reduction of fees and the increase in financing are important economic incentive measures to promote the Open Access publication model. It is widely accepted that the volume of Open Access publications will increase in the future.


2013 ◽  
Vol 126 (7) ◽  
pp. 563-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Shea ◽  
Vinay Prasad

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman

The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion. Approaching Religion aims at offering an accessible, open and explorative forum for scholarly debate on timely issues and concepts related to the study of religion and culture. In order to fulfil the goals of availability and visibility, we have created our journal as an online, open access publication, supported by the internationally compatible Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. Approaching Religion is primarily a publication channel for articles presented at seminars and conferences arranged by the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History in Åbo, Finland. The journal addresses an international readership and our aim is to present articles of highest academic standard that approach the field of religion from a broad, theoretically and methodologically diverse perspective.


Author(s):  
Eric Archambault ◽  
Colleen Campbell ◽  
Lorcan Dempsey ◽  
Roy Kaufman ◽  
Kamran Naim ◽  
...  

In their report, delegates of the Who Decides? workgroup of the OSI2016 conference put forth three proposals in which key stakeholders might convene to enact an economically viable and sustainable transformation of the current scholarly communications system to one of open access. The “Global Flip” workgroup of OSI2017 discussed the previous year’s “Proposal 3: Transformation: a “global flip” of research journals to open access” in which “libraries, publishers, and funders, convened by an organization with global standing, come together to redirect subscription funding toward transforming existing journals to open access publication.”  Tasked with creating broad action plans for further research into the feasibility and impact of such a transformation, we identify a number of driving forces in the envisioned transformation, which could be further developed to assure its ultimate success as well as possible barriers to its desired fruition and suggested actions to remove them.


2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 1051-1051
Author(s):  
Marco Magliulo ◽  
Jakub Lengiewicz ◽  
Andreas Zilian ◽  
Lars A. A. Beex

The article “Non-localised contact between beams with circular and elliptical cross-sections”, written by “Marco Magliulo, Jakub Lengiewicz, Andreas Zilian and Lars A. A. Beex”, was originally published Online First without open access. After publication in volume 65, issue 5, page 1247–1266 the authors decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an open access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to ©   The Author(s) 2020


Author(s):  
Jianzhong Lin ◽  
Hailin Yang

The article [A review on the flow instability of nanofluids], written by [Jianzhong LIN, Hailin YANG], was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume [40], issue [9], page [1227-1238] the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) [2019] and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.


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