scholarly journals A psychological view on open access publishing: The reasoned action approach

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Moksness
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Predatory Publishers ◽  
Psychological View

Open Access (OA) has already been with us for some time, and with what has been branded a movement, is now more accurately labeled a trend that holds the promise of disrupting the traditional publishing paradigm. This, naturally, has garnered much interest in the numbers; statistics pertaining to article downloads, citation advantages, and the general impact of an article (that is readily available for people to access and download at their leisure). Copyright, post- and preprint; what is allowed to make available on, say, institutional pages (depending on, for example, agreements with financial backers), has also been debated. Much work has already been done in relation to tracking publications and surveying researchers’ sentiment towards OA. We have learned that, in academia, certain issues related to OA have been more salient than others, some pertaining to the perceived lack of quality in something that is “free”, or the misconceived idea that you essentially pay to have an article immediately published, and also  the lack of impact OA journals suffered in its infant years. Other concerns related to economics (i.e. publication fees/APCs or buying an article free in hybrid OA), and the presence of predatory publishers seeking to gain a quick profit on APCs.  Although we have much data from conducting studies of varying sizes and asking many questions, and we can say quite a bit about what the challenges with researchers’ OA behavior are – little work has actually been done trying to explain what drives this behavior. Assuming you are a scientist who is conducting research, what are the underlying factors for your intention to disseminate that research via OA? How should we design interventions, and interventions that work, to boost OA use? Some influential theoretical frameworks hailing from psychology can contribute to answering these questions. And, in so doing, help illuminate what drives intentions and how to better understand them. For example, at its most superficial level the reasoned action approach postulates that a person’s attitude towards performing a behavior, the normative pressure that person experiences towards performing the behavior, and to which degree he or she feels control over performing the actual behavior, together influences the intention to carry out the behavior in question. This framework has been used to investigate behavior in a wide variety of settings – it holds promise to shine light on, and give explanation to, the psychological mechanisms in publishing behavior. A complementary framework, construal level theory of psychological distance, describes psychological mechanisms that underlie behavior. Specifically it pertains to how level of abstraction may influence how we construe events. This framework may be beneficial in design of measures to boost open access publishing.The project aims to explain intention to publish open access using the reasoned action approach, collect and analyze data from Norwegian universities and university colleges, and to design theory-driven measures to boost open access publishing and address issues uncovered in the main study.

Business Model Developments

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-52
Author(s):  
Joost Kollöffel
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Financial Feasibility ◽  
Predatory Publishers

Academic publishing is a 'need to have' process that is very important in the academic world. This chapter focuses on the business models that were/are/might be used to finance the processes and the innovation in scholarly communication. What sparked the serials crisis? Is Open Access publishing feasible? Why are there predatory publishers? Can scientometrics and altmetrics be made into saleable products? These types of questions are answered in this chapter, where the focus lies on the financial feasibility of the main processes that occur in academic publishing.

scholarly journals What about prestige in gold Open Access publishing – a survey investigating publication patterns of researchers at Swedish universities

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Camilla Hertil Lindelöw
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
Indexing Service ◽  
Predatory Publishers ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Gold Open Access ◽  
Level 2

Fully gold Open Access (OA) publication channels are still hold to be of inferior quality compared to channels offered by publishers with traditional subscription business models, albeit less and less so. The threat of predatory publishers looms on one side, and on the other most OA publishers haven’t been around to gather prestige for so long. Still, there seems to be a steady advance. For example, OA publication channels may now be found at level two (indexing the channels perceived as having most academic prestige in a certain subject) of the Norwegian Publication Model (NPM).In an earlier survey, I investigated the publication patterns of researchers at Swedish universities with focus on their gold OA publishing in journals. The publication patterns were contrasted with the occurrence of OA journals in NPM. 29 % of the DOAJ journals were present as approved channels in NPM. DOAJ is frequently mentioned as the most comprehensive OA journal indexing service in the world. At level one, 14 % of the listed journals were OA, whereas only 2 % of level two journals were OA. Out of the DOAJ-journals included in NPM, only 1 % made it to level two. This is probably explained by the situation described above; OA journals are often new to the scientific publishing market, and therefore they haven’t had the time to gather academic prestige.The OA journals that researchers at Swedish universities published were almost all of them present in DOAJ. 7 % of these were at level two. This pattern seems to imply that researchers are trying to fulfil demands of OA publishing from funders, while at the same time trying to gather prestige for their own researcher career. This poster aims to further explore these results, with focus on the 7 % journals at level 2. Which journals can be found here, and what is the distribution? Which research subjects are involved?

Martin Fishbein’s Legacy

2012 ◽  
Vol 640 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Icek Ajzen
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Control ◽  
Reasoned Action ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Subjective Norms ◽  
Control Beliefs ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Reasoned Action Approach ◽  
Behavior Change Interventions ◽  
And Control

The reasoned action approach that Martin Fishbein pioneered has emerged as the dominant conceptual framework for predicting, explaining, and changing human social behavior. The most popular model in this tradition, the theory of planned behavior, has generated a great deal of empirical research supporting the premises of this approach. It has been shown that behavioral, normative, and control beliefs provide the basis, respectively, for attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; that these three factors jointly account for a great deal of variance in behavioral intentions; and that intentions and perceived control can be used to predict actual behavior. Based on these insights, investigators have been able to design effective behavior change interventions.

Prevent Betrayal by Predatory Publishers: Trust But Verify

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-14
Author(s):  
Kristine L. Florczak
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Predatory Publishers ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Publishing Practices

In this column, the concept of betrayal is considered as it relates to publishing. The definition of betrayal is discussed, followed by information regarding the cost of publishing and why this led to the formation of open access publishing as a remedy. The Gold and Green Open Access models are examined along with why they may have inadvertently set the stage for predatory publishing practices. Finally, information will be provided on how to spot and avoid betrayal on the part of predatory publishers.

scholarly journals Predatory Publishing: How to Safely Navigate the Waters of Open Access

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Power
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
The Public ◽  
Know How ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Predatory Publishers

Open access publishing enables scholarship to be openly accessible to everyone, which has countless benefits. However, the open access movement has opened the door for “predatory publishers” to take advantage of researchers surviving in this publish or perish academic landscape. Predatory journals are becoming increasingly common. Nursing researchers, instructors, and students need to be made aware of the dangers of predatory journals, and they need to know how to identify them. While there are blacklists and whitelists that can be used to aid in decision-making, it is critical to note that these lists can never be entirely up to date. This article incorporates a literature review which provides insights into newer trends in predatory and unethical publishing, including “journal hijacking” and “bogus impact factors”. Extensive criteria for assessing emerging or unknown journals is compiled to aid researchers, students, educators, and the public in evaluating open access publications.

ATTITUDE TO OPEN ACCESS IN RUSSIAN SCHOLARLY COMMUNITY: 2018. SURVEY RESULTS AND ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. K. Razumova ◽  
N. N. Litvinova ◽  
M. E. Shvartsman ◽  
A. Yu. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Scholarly Community ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level ◽  
Access Policies

Introduction. The paper presents survey results on the awareness towards and practice of Open Access scholarly publishing among Russian academics.Materials and Methods. We employed methods of statistical analysis of survey results. Materials comprise results of data processing of Russian survey conducted in 2018 and published results of the latest international surveys. The survey comprised 1383 respondents from 182 organizations. We performed comparative studies of the responses from academics and research institutions as well as different research areas. The study compares results obtained in Russia with the recently published results of surveys conducted in the United Kingdom and Europe.Results. Our findings show that 95% of Russian respondents support open access, 94% agree to post their publications in open repositories and 75% have experience in open access publishing. We did not find any difference in the awareness and attitude towards open access among seven reference groups. Our analysis revealed the difference in the structure of open access publications of the authors from universities and research institutes. Discussion andConclusions. Results reveal a high level of awareness and support to open access and succeful practice in the open access publications in the Russian scholarly community. The results for Russia demonstrate close similarity with the results of the UK academics. The governmental open access policies and programs would foster the practical realization of the open access in Russia.

THE STATE OF OPEN ACCESS ADOPTION IN LEGAL SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SELECTED OPEN ACCESS RESOURCES

Mousaion ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Solomon Bopape
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Open Access Resources ◽  
The Right

The study of law focuses, among other aspects, on important issues relating to equality, fairness and justice in as far as free access to information and knowledgeis concerned. The launching of the Open Access to Law Movement in 1992, the promulgation of the Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarshipin 2009, and the formation of national and regional Legal Information Institutes (LIIs) should serve as an indication of how well the legal world is committed to freely publishing and distributing legal information and knowledge through the Internet to legal practitioners, legal scholars and the public at large aroundthe world. In order to establish the amount of legal scholarly content which is accessible through open access publishing innovations and initiatives, this studyanalysed the contents of websites for selected open access resources on the Internet internationally and in South Africa. The results of the study showed that there has been a steady developing trend towards the adoption of open access for legal scholarly literature internationally, while in South Africa legal scholarly literature is under the control of commercial publishers. This should be an issue for the legal scholarship which, among its focus, is to impart knowledge about the right of access to information and knowledge.

Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Access Publishing, E-Print Servers and Institutional Repositories

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Wust
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Faculty Attitudes ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Etude Qualitative

This qualitative study investigates how faculty gather information for teaching and research and their opinions on open access approaches to scholarly communication. Despite generally favorable reactions, a perceived lack of peer review and impact factors were among the most common reasons for not publishing through open-access forums.Cette étude qualitative examine comment les membres du corps professoral recueillent l’information pour l’enseignement et la recherche, et leurs opinions envers les approches de la communication scientifique à libre accès. Malgré des réactions généralement favorables, le manque perçu de révision par les pairs et les facteurs d’impact comptent parmi les motifs habituellement évoqués pour ne pas publier sur ces tribunes à libre accès. 

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