scholarly journals Global Flip & Other Studies Workgroup Report

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Archambault ◽  
Colleen Campbell ◽  
Lorcan Dempsey ◽  
Roy Kaufman ◽  
Kamran Naim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Communications System

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.

scholarly journals Librarians’ Perceptions of the Challenges for Researchers in Rwanda and the Potential of Open Scholarship

Libri ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cox ◽  
Pamela Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
System A ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
Major Reform ◽  
Global North ◽  
Communications System ◽  
Poor Infrastructure

Abstract Open scholarship is a major reform movement within research. This paper seeks to understand how open scholarship might address the challenges faced by research in Africa, through a study based on a participatory collaborative workshop to create a partnership with librarians in Rwanda. The literature review identifies three broad perspectives on the apparent under-performance of Rwandan research: one locating the issue in the unequal scholarly communications system, a second pointing to a country deficit and a third blaming cognitive injustices. The Rwandan librarians see researchers as challenged through the pressures on them to publish, the costs of research, poor infrastructure, lack of skills and limited access to literature. Collectively these challenges constitute a critical barrier to research. These limits fit largely the country deficit perspective. Open scholarship as conceived in the Global North is only a small part of the answer to the challenges faced by Rwandan scholars. To promote equity, notions of open scholarship need to take into account the conditions under which research is conducted in less privileged contexts such as Rwanda.

scholarly journals Correction to: One-dimensional drift-flux correlations for two-phase flow in medium-size channels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takashi Hibiki
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Two Phase Flow ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Phase Flow ◽  
Two Phase ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Internet Portal ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Drift Flux

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.

scholarly journals Presenter: Werner Paulus, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster. Publishing A High-quality, Non-commercial Neuropathology Journal Without a Publisher: The First Nine Months

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (s2) ◽  
pp. S11-S11
Author(s):  
Marta Margeta ◽  
Peter Gould ◽  
Lili-Naz Hazrati ◽  
Veronica Hirsch-Reinshagen ◽  
Werner Paulus
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Final Decision ◽  
List Type ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Commercial Publishing

Scholarly communication faces increasing economical and ethical challenges, including pricing policies and overbearing behavior of commercial publishing houses. Based on the hypothesis that a diamond open access neuropathology journal of a high scientific and technical quality can be run entirely by neuropathologists, we launched Free Neuropathology (FNP; freeneuropathology.org) in January 2020. Classical publisher activities, such as copyediting, layout, website maintenance, and journal promotion, are undertaken by neuropathologists and neuroscientists using free open access software. The journal is free for both readers and authors, and papers are published under a Creative Commons BY SA licence, where copyright remains with the authors. Based on 26 articles published by August 2020, it takes FNP 11.1 days from submission to first, and 19.9 days to final, decision. High-quality copyediting, layout, and online publishing in the final format is accomplished in only 8 days. Absence of a commercial publisher enables prioritization of democratic and scientifically-driven decisions on editorial structure, website design, journal promotion, paper formatting, special article series, and number of accepted papers. This new model of journal publishing, which returns the control of scholarly communication to scientists, will be of interest to neuropathologists and wider scientific community alike.Learning ObjectivesSummarize the current state and driving forces behind commercial and non-commercial scientific publishing in neuropathology.Describe the advantages and challenges of a non-commercial publishing platform for neuropathology.

scholarly journals Incentives to Open Access: Perspectives of Health Science Researchers

Publications ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Carmen López-Vergara ◽  
Pilar Flores Asenjo ◽  
Alfonso Rosa-García
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Economic Incentive ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Open Access Journal ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
The Impact

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.

Open Issues with Open Access Publication

2013 ◽  
Vol 126 (7) ◽  
pp. 563-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Shea ◽  
Vinay Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Open Issues

scholarly journals Almost Halfway There: An Analysis of the Open Access Behaviors of Academic Librarians

2011 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 443-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Scholarly Communications

Academic librarians are increasingly expected to advocate for scholarly communications reforms such as open access to scholarly publications, yet librarians do not always practice what they preach. Previous research examined librarian attitudes toward open access, whereas this article presents results of a study of open access publishing and self-archiving behaviors of academic librarians. Following an analysis of open access to library and information science literature in 2008, several strategies to encourage academic librarians to continue to embrace open access behaviors are discussed.

scholarly journals Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Ruth Illman
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Academic Standard ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Academic Discussion ◽  
Diverse Perspective ◽  
Open Journal Systems

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.

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