scholarly journals Open Access Articles and Position Papers

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. iv-v
Author(s):  
Gerda Wielander
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Alternative Models ◽  
Early Career Researchers

In addition to an overview of the issue, this article is a reminder that we are fully open access, free of charge, double-blind peer reviewed, and offer well-above-average editorial support, especially for early-career researchers. All of the editorial team work in a voluntary capacity. We are committed to finding alternative models of publishing, to reclaim the project of Open Access and key it to a different register of shared creativity and responsibility and work towards a more accessible, ethical, transparent, and creative form of scholarly communication. 

scholarly journals The ascent of SOAPbox

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niamh Brennan ◽  
Shane Collins ◽  
Linda Doyle ◽  
Helen Shenton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Open Research

‘The Open Science revolution will be led by early-career researchers.’  Professor Linda Doyle (Dean of Research, Trinity College Dublin). Major challenges in scholarly communication worldwide have occurred over the past twenty years, but real change has been slow. However, this generation of early career researchers looks likely to finally transform the culture. SOAPbox is a drive led by Trinity College Dublin students to rapidly transform their publishing culture and processes to open access, and in doing so, to fully integrate them into the dynamically-evolving open research environment. While student open access publishing is not new, SOAPbox is distinguished by its agility, its scale and its collective focus and ambition, sustained by its alignment with global and institutional policies and objectives. This has enabled SOAPbox to capture the imagination of a university and, more than any other single initiative, galvanise its community into positive engagement with open access. In this presentation, we outline SOAPbox, its rapid progress and the cultural factors that define it. We explore how this multidisciplinary, inter-generational Open Science community of practice works; we identify early learnings from the project and provide insights into the key issues facing early-career researchers engaged in Open Science publishing. Trinity College Dublin has a history of leadership and collaboration in Open Science, technically (e.g. early CRIS/IR integration; eDeposit Ireland) and from the policy perspective (e.g. EURAB Scholarly Publication Group (Chair, 2007); EC OSPP Board and Working Group representation; Ireland’s National Open Research Forum). In 2018, the Dean of Research and the College Librarian created the TCD Open Scholarship Taskforce which includes faculty deans, researchers, library & HR personal, IT professionals and students. Central to this initiative is an understanding that the successful transition to Open Science requires radical changes in how we approach and value the practice of research. The Taskforce supports projects like SOAPbox that have a transformative effect on research culture.   We will explore the SOAPbox Key Signifiers of Transformation: The Big Bang. Very rapid platform development with lightning-fast transformation of a significant number of journals (student-run alongside illustrious academic journals); Inclusiveness. A multi-disciplinary Open Science publishing community of practice across all disciplines and all research career stages (undergraduate and postgraduate students ­– alongside senior academics managing centuries-old journals); Ethical, Sustainable, Global Responsibility. Supporting positive societal, economic and cultural impact of research, with a specific emphasis on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals; Cultural Change: an embedded, creative training and education strand, employing innovation expertise, a Certificate in Scholarly Communication (an additional extrinsic motivator) and periodic surveys to inform an understanding of the experience; Alignment: with the strategic goals of the University and with its graduate attributes, championed by the Dean of Research and supported by the Graduate Students’ Union. SOAPbox is a scholar-led, community-driven, inclusive publishing initiative which has embraced the spirit of ‘glocalisation’. It instills a life-time commitment to Open Science amongst its participants, changing the world, from one university out.

scholarly journals Scholarly Communication and Open Access in Psychology: Current Considerations for Researchers

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Bowering Mullen
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Specific Discipline ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Citation Metrics ◽  
Gold Open Access

Scholarly communication and open access practices in psychological science are rapidly evolving. However, most published works that focus on scholarly communication issues do not target the specific discipline, and instead take a more “one size fits all” approach. When it comes to scholarly communication, practices and traditions vary greatly across the disciplines. It is important to look at issues such as open access (of all types), reproducibility, research data management, citation metrics, the emergence of preprint options, the evolution of new peer review models, coauthorship conventions, and use of scholarly networking sites such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu from a disciplinary perspective. Important issues in scholarly publishing for psychology include uptake of authors’ use of open access megajournals, how open science is represented in psychology journals, challenges of interdisciplinarity, and how authors avail themselves of green and gold open access strategies. This overview presents a discipline-focused treatment of selected scholarly communication topics that will allow psychology researchers and others to get up to speed on this expansive topic. Further study into researcher behavior in terms of scholarly communication in psychology would create more understanding of existing culture as well as provide early career researchers with a more effective roadmap to the current landscape. As no other single work provides a study of scholarly communication and open access in psychology, this work aims to partially fill that niche.

scholarly journals How is open access publishing going down with early career researchers? An international, multi-disciplinary study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas ◽  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Jie Xu ◽  
Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Openness To Change ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Scholarly Communications ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Many

This study explores early career researchers’ (ECRs) appreciation and utilisation of open access (OA) publishing. The evidence reported here results from a questionnaire-based international survey with 1600 participants, which forms the second leg and final year of a four year long, mixed methods, longitudinal study that sought to discover whether ECRs will be the harbingers of change when it comes to scholarly communications. Proceeding from the notion that today’s neophyte researchers, believed to hold millennial values of openness to change, transparency and sharing, may be best placed to power the take-up of OA publishing, the study sought to discover: the extent to which ECRs publish OA papers; the main reasons for their doing or not doing so; and what were thought to be the broader advantages and disadvantages of OA publishing. The survey data is presented against a backdrop of the literature-based evidence on the subject, with the interview stage data providing contextualisation and qualitative depth. The findings show that the majority of ECRs published in OA journals and this varied by discipline and country. Most importantly, there were more advantages and fewer disadvantages to OA publishing, which may be indicative of problems to do with cost and availability, rather than reputational factors. Among the many reasons cited for publishing OA the most important one is societal, although OA is seen as especially benefiting ECRs in career progression. Cost is plainly considered the main downside.

National comparisons of early career researchers' scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 370-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Cherifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

OpenCon2014 in Washington DC, November 2014. Early Career Researchers and Open Access Advocacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
Matt Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Experience Levels ◽  
The Right ◽  
Academic Resources

Purpose – This paper aims to give an overview of OpenCon 2014, organized by the Right to Research Coalition, SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and an organizing committee of students and early career researchers from around the world that took place between the 14th and 17th of November 2014 in Washington DC. Design/methodology/approach – A narrative approach was used to describe events. Findings – OpenCon 2014 is an exciting new conference that targets early career librarians and researchers who are involved with and/or interested in aspects of the open-access movement. It is attempting to galvanize the upcoming generation of scholars to demand more of traditional publishing models by bringing together a selective group that spans diverse interests and experience levels. Originality/value – This report outlines the author's takeaways and opinions concerning the events of the conference, as well as identifies some of the themes and issues that were relevant to librarians in research institutions.

Chinese Early-Career Researchers' Scholarly Communication Attitudes and Behaviours: Changes Observed in Year Two of a Longitudinal Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Xu ◽  
David Nicholas ◽  
Yuanxiang Zeng ◽  
Jing Su ◽  
Anthony Watkinson
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

A global questionnaire survey of the scholarly communication attitudes and behaviours of early career researchers

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicholas ◽  
Hamid R. Jamali ◽  
Eti Herman ◽  
Anthony Watkinson ◽  
Abdullah Abrizah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Early Career Researchers

scholarly journals Open Access: what's in it for me as an early career researcher?

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. C04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Pontika
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
Online Research ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Good Reputation ◽  
Early Career Researcher ◽  
Research World

When entering the research world, Early Career Researchers (ECRs) may encounter difficulties building a good reputation for their research, its quality and the research results. Open access is the movement that could assist ECRs to: (a) widely disseminate their scholarly outputs, (b) demonstrate the research and societal impact of their work and, (c) organise online research portfolios that can be accessed by all researchers, as well as prospective employers.

Open Access Journals: A Boon or Bane for Early Career Researchers in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok K. Sundramoorthy
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Junior Research ◽  
Funding Support ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Research Faculty

Background : It is demonstrated that for a junior research faculty in India, a proper guidelines and funding resources are required to publish research articles in the Open Access (OA) journals. Recently, many of the important scientific journals are turned out to be OA journals. When we need to publish in an OA journal, the funding support for article processing charge (APC) is uncertain due to the limited funds or absence of institutional level support. Objective: To find out the total number of open access and subscription based articles published from the top ten countries in the scientific journals up to July 2020. Materials and Methods: For the data collection a keyword of “Chemistry” was used in all fields in the “Scopus database” on 07 July 2020. Results: From the articles published by top ten countries, it was found that USA has published more number of publications (open access plus subscription based) followed by China, Japan, Germany, UK, India, France, Canada, Italy, and Russian Federation. However, if we carefully look at the total numbers of OA publications up to July 2020, Japan (33.47%) has published more percentage of OA documents compared to UK (26.92%), Germany (24.63%) and USA (24.53%). In this list, India (13.02%) and Russian Federation (10.14%) have published lowest numbers of OA publications compared to other countries.

scholarly journals Creating a Diamond Open Access community journal for Seismology and Earthquake Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martijn van den Ende ◽  
Lucile Bruhat ◽  
Gareth Funning ◽  
Alice-Agnes Gabriel ◽  
Stephen Hicks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Earth Science ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Nature Publishing Group ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Funding Agencies ◽  
Publishing Group ◽  
Earthquake Science

On 24 November 2020, the Springer Nature publishing group announced the introduction of Open Access (OA) articles in Nature and its sibling journals. The corresponding OA publication fee (charged directly to the authors) was set to €9,500/$11,390/£8,290, an amount that may be well out of reach for many researchers. This is especially a problem for researchers in developing countries, early-career researchers on small, personal fellowships, and researchers between positions. Employers and funding agencies are increasingly requiring that research be published under an OA license, forcing authors to accept the high publication fees, who are not always financially supported.The high cost of these and similar OA fees for other Earth Science journals prompted a discussion among the seismological community on Twitter, during which the idea was raised to start a free-to-publish, free-to-read journal for seismological research. The concept of Diamond Open Access was already adopted by Volcanica (www.jvolcanica.org) for volcanological research, providing a precedent and motivation for similar initiatives (like Seismica, but also Tektonika for the structural geology community). Following community discussions on Slack with over 100 participants, a small “task force” was formed to investigate in detail the possibility of starting a Diamond OA seismology journal, adopting Volcanica as a model. Here we detail the results of the exploration performed by the task force, with the aim of synthesizing a set of key requirements and corresponding actions to launch a Diamond OA journal in seismology and earthquake science, including scope definition, community engagement, and partnership with a library or other institutions. This document presents ideas and discussions while starting Seismica from November 2020 to July 2021, which may serve as a guideline but might not reflect the final stage of Seismica.

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