The Writing’s on the Firewall: Assessing the Promise of Open Access Journal Publishing for a Public Sociology of Sport

The process of digitization has transformed the ways in which content is reproduced and circulated online, rupturing long held distinctions between production and consumption in the (virtual) public sphere. In accordance with these developments over the past fifteen years, proponents for open access publishing in higher education have argued that the (not yet absolute) transition from physical to digital modes of journal production opens up unprecedented opportunities for redressing the restrictive terms of ownership and access currently perpetuated within an increasingly untenable journal publishing industry. Through this article, I advocate that the sociology of sport community hastens to question, challenge and reimagine its position within this industry in anticipation of a reformed publishing landscape. The impetus for the paper is to ask not whether sociologists of sport should or should not publish open access, but rather as open access publishing inevitably comes to pass in some form, what say will the field’s associations, societies and members have in these changes, and how might they help invigorate a public sociology of sport?

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Reforming Science Publishing

10.31221/osf.io/mfhx7 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Khaled Moustafa

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Peer Review ◽

Scientific Community ◽

Review Process ◽

Publishing Industry ◽

Peer Review Process ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

The Past ◽

Open Access Journals

Over the past few years, different changes have been introduced into the science publishing industry. However, important reforms are still required at both the content and form levels. First, the peer review process needs to be open, fair and transparent. Second, author-paid fees in open access journals need to either be removed or reconsidered toward more affordability. Third, the categorization of papers should include all types of scientific contributions that can be of higher interest to the scientific community than many mere quantitative and observable measures, or simply removed from publications. Forth, word counts and reference numbers in online open access journal should be nuanced or replaced by recommended ranges rather than to be a proxy of acceptance or rejection. Finally, all the coauthors of a manuscript should be considered corresponding authors and responsible for their mutual manuscript rather than only one or two.

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What Matters More in Open Access Journal Publishing: Scientific Rigor or Financial Vigor?

Human Technology An Interdisciplinary Journal On Humans In ICT Environments ◽

10.17011/ht/urn.202106223976 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 5-21

Author(s):

Barbara J. Crawford

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Scientific Rigor ◽

Journal Publishing ◽

Current State ◽

Academic Association ◽

Take Back ◽

The World

Academics and librarians around the world are raising concern about the current state of scholarly journal publishing in that the majority of journals are under the control of five multinational commercial journal publishing companies. Some are advocating for scholars to take back control of scholarly communication, particularly because it is the academics who are supplying and managing most of the content for journals. Open access publishing is one option, but the question of sustainability in funding streams raises concerns. Also the roles of scholarly societies, academic association, and universities in looking for stability in nonprofit journal publishing are discussed.

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Neuroglia: A New Open-Access Journal Publishing All Aspects of Glial Research

Neuroglia ◽

10.3390/neuroglia1010001 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Arthur Butt ◽

Delia Mihaila ◽

Alexei Verkhratsky

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Journal Publishing

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Scholarly communication in the digital environment

Aslib Proceedings ◽

10.1108/00012530510634226 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 57 (6) ◽

pp. 481-497 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Ian Rowlands ◽

David Nicholas

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Substantial Contribution ◽

Disciplinary Culture ◽

Content Type ◽

Journal Publishing ◽

Institutional Repositories ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Regional Location

PurposeThis paper aims to make a substantial contribution to the ongoing debate about the potential of open access publishing and institutional repositories to reform the scholarly communication system. It presents the views of senior authors on these issues and contextualises them within the broader framework of their journal publishing behaviour and preferences.Design/methodology/approachA highly representative online opinion survey of more than five and half thousand journals authors, building on an earlier (January 2004) benchmarking study carried out by CIBER.FindingsSenior researchers are rapidly becoming more informed about open access publishing and institutional repositories but are still a long way off reaching a consensus on the likelihood that these new models will challenge the existing order, nor are they in agreement whether this would be a positive or a negative development. Disciplinary culture and, to a less extent, regional location are key determinants of author attitudes and any policy response should avoid “one‐size‐fits‐all” solutions.Research limitations/implicationsThis survey reflects the opinions of senior corresponding authors who have recently published in a “top” (i.e. ISI‐indexed journal) with 95 per cent confidence. The findings should not be generalised to represent the views of all authors in all journals, open access or otherwise.Originality/valueThe journal publishing sector is facing enormous challenges and opportunities as content increasingly migrates to the web. The value of this research is that it provides an objective, non‐partisan, assessment of the attitudes and opinions of more than 5,000 senior researchers, a key stakeholder group, and thus contributes both to the development of public policy as well as more realistic commercial strategies.

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Welcome to a new, international open-access research journal with a particular focus on the development of theoretical and experimental techniques and methodology

Astronomy Studies Development ◽

10.4081/asd.2011.705 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. e1

Author(s):

Fulvio Melia

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Original Research ◽

Past Century ◽

The Past ◽

Research Journal ◽

History Of ◽

Mathematical Techniques ◽

Instrumental Development ◽

Astronomy And Astrophysics

I have recently had the privilege of being appointed Editor-in-Chief of this very exciting and innovative Open Access Journal, and hereby extend a warm welcome to everyone as we launch Astronomy Studies Development, which will seek to publish high quality, peer-reviewed, original manuscripts in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics, though with a particular focus on mathematical techniques and methodology and innovative ideas for instrumental development and modeling in astronomy and astrophysics. The journal will also seek to publish simulations in all areas, including cosmology, particle astrophysics, accretion, and diffuse media. Our journal will include both full length research articles and letter articles, and its coverage extends over solar, stellar, galactic and extragalactic astronomy and astrophysics, and will report original research in all wavelength bands. Astronomy and Astrophysics are rather mature disciplines, with a history of quality journals over the past century or more. So one may reasonably ask why a new journal such as this is needed. Obviously, I myself have answered this question in the affirmative. After a long career in research and publishing, I have the perspective to provide several good reasons for helping to promote the evolution of publishing in Astronomy and Astrophysics to a place more in line with present technology..........

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Building transparency and trust in industry-sponsored clinical research through open access publishing

European Science Editing ◽

10.3897/ese.2020.e54172 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

Author(s):

Barbara DeCastro ◽

Anna Geraci ◽

Jayme Trott ◽

G. Peter Snyder ◽

Yaswant Dayaram

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Clinical Research ◽

Publishing Industry ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Forests’ First Decade: A Bibliometric Analysis Overview

Forests ◽

10.3390/f10010072 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 72 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Juan Uribe-Toril ◽

José Ruiz-Real ◽

Julia Haba-Osca ◽

Jaime de Pablo Valenciano

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Bibliometric Analysis ◽

Forest Ecology ◽

Scientific Information ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Online Databases ◽

Graphical Visualization ◽

Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Area

Forests is a Swiss open access journal in the field of forestry and forest ecology founded in 2010. Currently, the journal celebrates its 10th anniversary. Therefore, the purpose of this research for the special issue A Decade of Forests Open Access Publishing is to present a whole bibliometric overview of the journal and highlight the state of the art of forestry as an interdisciplinary knowledge area. A bibliometric analysis of 2094 articles, reviews, editorials and corrections was conducted using two different scientific information platforms which publish indexes in online databases: Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The most influential countries and their relationship with funding institutions, the most leading and outstanding authors and the most significant articles published in Forests have been analyzed. A complete keyword concurrence network with a graphical visualization and a cluster analysis are adopted for identifying the main trends and opening issues to address in the coming decade, such as genetic diversity, forest productivity, resistance or resilience. This article has identified climate change, remote sensing, biomass and forest management as the main trends in forestry research during the last ten years.

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Cited analysis of articles with keywords of ‘Instructional Design’ in DOAJ

International Journal of Learning and Teaching ◽

10.18844/ijlt.v12i1.4567 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 55-71

Author(s):

Feriha Emel Yaman ◽

Zehra Ozcinar

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

Instructional Design ◽

Open Access ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Research Approach ◽

Spreadsheet Program ◽

The Past ◽

Screening Model ◽

Number Of Citations ◽

Number Of Authors

The purpose of this study was to provide 158 Open-Access Magazine Guides, 158 of which were found in the magazines covered by the Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ; from the beginning until the end of 2016) subjects; number of authors; number of citations; distribution of keywords; and distribution of magazines by country, author and citations. The authors of the most cited articles, the number of citations and years, the number of citations the authors have taken on a country basis, and page numbers and bibliographic numbers are examined. It is believed that in the current literature there is only one study on instructional design and it is necessary and important because of its contribution to the field. The fact that the articles published in the electronic magazines published in the DOAJ Open Access Guide used the term ‘Instructional Design’ in the keywords to reach the relevant articles constitutes the limitation of this study. This research is a quantitative study in the screening model because it is a research approach that identifies the situation that exists in the past and the present. Content analysis was done because the articles were examined in terms of content. The titles were searched, and the obtained data were uploaded to the spreadsheet program and the tables were created. The data were analysed by interpreting the tables by calculating the frequencies and percentages. Keywords: Citation analysis, DOAJ, instructional design, open access.

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The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0020961 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. e20961 ◽

Cited By ~ 261

Author(s):

Mikael Laakso ◽

Patrik Welling ◽

Helena Bukvova ◽

Linus Nyman ◽

Bo-Christer Björk ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Journal ◽

Journal Publishing

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Liberation through Cooperation: How Library Publishing Can Save Scholarly Journals from Neoliberalism

10.31229/osf.io/7a6y9 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Dave S. Ghamandi

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Publishing Industry ◽

Scholarly Journal ◽

Economic Aspects ◽

Scholarly Journals ◽

Journal Publishing ◽

Article Processing Charges ◽

Systems Of Domination ◽

Fair Deal

This commentary examines political and economic aspects of open access (OA) and scholarly journal publishing. Through a discourse of critique, neoliberalism is analyzed as an ideology causing many problems in the scholarly journal publishing industry, including the serials crisis. Two major efforts in the open access movement that promote an increase in OA funded by article-processing charges (APC) —the Open Access 2020 (OA2020) and Pay It Forward (PIF) initiatives—are critiqued as neoliberal frameworks that would perpetuate existing systems of domination and exploitation. In a discourse of possibility, ways of building a post-neoliberal system of journal publishing using new tactics and strategies, merging theory and praxis, and grounding in solidarity and cooperation are presented. This includes organizing journal publishing democratically using cooperatives, which could decommodify knowledge and provide greater open access. The article concludes with a vision for a New Fair Deal, which would revolutionize the system of scholarly journal publishing by transitioning journals to library publishing cooperatives.

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