Open access to scholarly publications. National Policy and executive plan by the research community in Finland for 2020–2025 (1)

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.

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Perspectives on Openness: Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing

10.25071/10315/38038 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Stacy Allison-Cassin ◽

Sean Hillier ◽

Alan Odjig Corbiere ◽

Deborah McGregor ◽

Joy Kirchner

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Panel Discussion ◽

Scholarly Communication ◽

Ways Of Knowing ◽

Research Community ◽

University Libraries ◽

Cultural Expression ◽

Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽

Taking Action ◽

Equity And Inclusion

York University Libraries Open Access Week 2020 panel discussion entitled, "Perspectives on Openness: Honouring Indigenous Ways of Knowing", moderated by Stacy Allison-Cassin, in conversation with Alan Ojiig Corbiere, Deborah McGregor, and Sean Hillier, that took place online on October 20, 2020. The theme for Open Access Week 2020 is Open With Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion. The basis of the discussion for the panel is the question, "In an era of open scholarship and research, how do we as a research community navigate and balance openness while respecting Indigenous knowledge and cultural expression?". This panel discussion offers the opportunity to encourage broader participation in conversations and actions around emerging scholarly communication issues, by centering on Indigenous approaches to open scholarship and research.

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Library Supported Open Access Funds: Criteria, Impact, and Viability

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice ◽

10.18438/eblip29623 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 21-37

Author(s):

Amanda B. Click ◽

Rachel Borchardt

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Best Practices ◽

Financial Stability ◽

Journal Impact Factor ◽

High Impact ◽

H Index ◽

Publication Data ◽

Scholarly Publications ◽

Journal Impact ◽

Article Impact

Abstract Objective – This study analyzes scholarly publications supported by library open access funds, including author demographics, journal trends, and article impact. It also identifies and summarizes open access fund criteria and viability. The goal is to better understand the sustainability of open access funds, as well as identify potential best practices for institutions with open access funds. Methods – Publication data was solicited from universities with open access (OA) funds, and supplemented with publication and author metrics, including Journal Impact Factor, Altmetric Attention Score, and author h-index. Additionally, data was collected from OA fund websites, including fund criteria and guidelines. Results – Library OA funds tend to support faculty in science and medical fields. Impact varied widely, especially between disciplines, but a limited measurement indicated an overall smaller relative impact of publications funded by library OA funds. Many open access funds operate using similar criteria related to author and publication eligibility, which seem to be largely successful at avoiding the funding of articles published in predatory journals. Conclusions – Libraries have successfully funded many publications using criteria that could constitute best practices in this area. However, institutions with OA funds may need to identify opportunities to increase support for high-impact publications, as well as consider the financial stability of these funds. Alternative models for OA support are discussed in the context of an ever-changing open access landscape.

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The impact of the open access movement on medical based scholarly publishing in Nigeria

First Monday ◽

10.5210/fm.v12i10.1957 ◽

2007 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alasia Datonye Dennis

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Developing World ◽

Scholarly Publishing ◽

Global Distribution ◽

Scholarly Research ◽

Medical Journals ◽

Current State ◽

Scholarly Publications ◽

The Impact

The open access movement and its initiatives -- which advocate a shift from predominant print-based publication to electronic and Internet sources -- is expected to improve the global distribution of scholarly research and impact positively on the current state of scholarly publications in the developing world. This review examines the current state of medical journals in Nigeria and assesses the impact of the open access movement and its initiatives on medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria. The resulting appraisal shows that open access initiatives have impacted positively on medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria, with the African Journals Online and the African Index Medicus projects being the most significant influences. There are enormous prospects for further developing medical scholarly publishing in Nigeria using open access initiatives; these opportunities should be exploited and developed.

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COVID-19 and the scientific publishing system: Growth, open access and scientific fields

10.31235/osf.io/ntrpx ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Tina Nane ◽

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia ◽

Francois van Schalkwyk ◽

Daniel Torres-Salinas

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Research Community ◽

World Health ◽

Crucial Aspect ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Scientific Outputs ◽

Health Organization ◽

Scientific Fields ◽

Large Corpus

We model the growth of scientific literature related to COVID-19 and forecast the expected growth from 1 June 2021. Considering the significant scientific and financial efforts made by the research community to find solutions to end the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented volume of scientific outputs is being produced. This questions the capacity of scientists, politicians and citizens to maintain infrastructure, digest content and take scientifically informed decisions. A crucial aspect is to make predictions to prepare for such a large corpus of scientific literature. Here we base our predictions on the ARIMA and exponential smoothing models and use two different data sources: the Dimensions and World Health Organization COVID-19 databases. These two sources have the particularity of including in the metadata information on the date in which papers were indexed. We present global predictions, plus predictions in three specific settings: by type of access (Open Access), by NLM source (PubMed and PMC), and by domain-specific repository (SSRN and MedRxiv). We conclude by discussing our findings.

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Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia

PLoS ONE ◽

10.1371/journal.pone.0242509 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (12) ◽

pp. e0242509

Author(s):

Balázs Bodó ◽

Dániel Antal ◽

Zoltán Puha

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Access Publishing ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Lower Income ◽

Scholarly Book ◽

Scholarly Publications ◽

The Social ◽

Knowledge Absorption ◽

Limited Usefulness ◽

Knowledge Access

Library Genesis is one of the oldest and largest illegal scholarly book collections online. Without the authorization of copyright holders, this shadow library hosts and makes more than 2 million scholarly publications, monographs, and textbooks available. This paper analyzes a set of weblogs of one of the Library Genesis mirrors, provided to us by one of the service’s administrators. We reconstruct the social and economic factors that drive the global and European demand for illicit scholarly literature. In particular, we test if lower income regions can compensate for the shortcomings in legal access infrastructures by more intensive use of illicit open resources. We found that while richer regions are the most intensive users of shadow libraries, poorer regions face structural limitations that prevent them from fully capitalizing on freely accessible knowledge. We discuss these findings in the wider context of open access publishing, and point out that open access knowledge, if not met with proper knowledge absorption infrastructures, has limited usefulness in addressing knowledge access and production inequalities.

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Born-Open Data for E-Prime

10.31234/osf.io/kyuvs ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Denis Cousineau

Keyword(s):

Open Access ◽

Open Data ◽

Open Science ◽

Research Community ◽

Data Repository ◽

Data Frame ◽

Science Practices ◽

Data Practices ◽

Data Files ◽

Access Data

Born-Open Data experiments are encouraged for better open science practices. To be adopted, Born-Open data practices must be easy to implement. Herein, I introduce a package for E-Prime such that the data files are automatically saved on a GitHub repository. The BornOpenData package for E-Prime works seamlessly and performs the upload as soon as the experiment is finished so that there is no additional steps to perform beyond placing a package call within E-Prime. Because E-Prime files are not standard tab-separated files, I also provide an R function that retrieves the data directly from GitHub into a data frame ready to be analyzed. At this time, there are no standards as to what should constitute an adequate open-access data repository so I propose a few suggestions that any future Born-Open data system could follow for easier use by the research community.

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