Is it worth establishing institutional repositories? The strategies for open access to Spanish peer-reviewed articles (original) (raw)
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The open access availability of publications by Catalonia's CERCA research centres was analysed to determine the extent to which authors use open access journals, repositories, social networks and other websites to disseminate their research results. A sample of 3,730 journal articles published by authors from CERCA research centres between 2011 and 2015 and available on Web of Science (out of a total output of 44,423) was analysed to identify how many were available in open access, full-text format. The results revealed that 75,8% of the total (2,828 articles) had at least one version available in open access, but just 52% (1,940 articles) had at least one version available in either journals (whether pure or hybrid open access journals or those with embargo periods) or repositories, a finding that highlights the powerful role played by academic social networks in the sharp increase in open access availability. Of the 2,828 articles for which at least one open access version was found, a total of 9,868 copies were located. With respect to versions, the publisher's final version, i.e. the type formatted for publication by journal publishers, was found in 75,3% of cases. The number of articles published in open access journals (567) was very close to the number of articles published in hybrid journals or journals with embargo periods (624). Only 40,4% of the articles in the sample were located in repositories, being the subject repositories the heaviest used. Fifty percent of the articles (1,881 publications) were posted on academic social networks, the most popular of which were ResearchGate and Acade-mia. According to thematic areas, all six areas (science, life sciences, medical and health sciences, engineering and architecture and humanities) exceeded 70% of articles in open access.
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Learned Publishing, 2017
Metrics regarding Open Access (OA) availability for readers and the enablers of redistribution of content published in scholarly journals, i.e. content licenses, copyright ownership, and publisher-stipulated self-archiving permissions are still scarce. This study implements the four core variables (reader rights, reuse rights, copyrights, author posting rights) of the recently published Open Access Spectrum (OAS) to measure the level of openness in all 1728 Spanish scholarly journals listed in the Spanish national DULCINEA database at the end of 2015. In order to conduct the analysis additional data has been aggregated from other bibliographic databases and through manual data collection (such data includes the journal research area, type of publisher, type of access, self-archiving and reuse policy, and potential type of Creative Commons (CC) licence used). 79% of journals allowed self-archiving in some form, 13.5% did not specify any copyright terms and 37% used CC licenses. From the total journals (1728), 1285 (74.5%) received the maximum score of 20 in reader rights. For 72% of journals, authors retain or publishers grant broad rights which include author reuse and authorisation rights (for others to re-use). The OAS-compliant results of this study enable comparative studies to be conducted on other large populations of journals. Key points The Open Access Spectrum (OAS), and associated criteria of the Open Access Spectrum EvaluationTool, can be used to evaluate individual journals as well as to summarise the openness of a large number of journals. The 1728 Spanish journals included in the study make use the entire scales of the four core OAS criteria. 55% of all Spanish journals publishing with a Creative Commons licence use CC-BY-NC-ND, which differs from the most frequent licence of used globally, CC-BY. During the last two years Spanish journals have become increasingly open, both in relative share of full open access journals as well restricted access journals permitting self-archiving. National-level indexes, like DULCINEA in Spain which implements SHERPA/RoMEO-compliant coding of publisher-policies, could be one way of solving the persistent problem of outdated self-archiving information. We encourage actors overseeing multiple journals, publishers and national science policies, to make us of the the OAS as a tool for monitoring the development of openness among journals. INTRODUCCION Growth and increasing degree of openness in scholarly publishing Enabled by the shift to the digital medium, the global scholarly journal landscape has been undergoing four key intertwining shifts on a global scale. The first shift is related to growth of scholarly journal publishing overall. The volume
Open access availability of Catalonia research output: Case analysis of the CERCA centres (Raw data)
2018
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Repositories for academic products/outputs: Latin American and Chilean visions
F1000Research, 2019
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In the introduction, institutional repositories and Open Access movement will be explained. In literature review, citation impact of Open Access articles will be discussed based on several researches (e.g. by Harnad, Brody, Kennicutt, Kurtz etc.). Further on, differences between scientifically mainstream and peripheral countries will be emphasized. Two important factors in defining peripheral scientific communities -language and economy -will be explained. Scientists in peripheral scientific communities sometimes communicate in "small" language (although the languages usually have long traditions, they are spoken and understood by relatively small number of scientists), and sometimes their countries' economy is marked as "developing" or "semi-developed". We will not discuss scientific communication problems in developing countries, but the problems of seven European semi-developed and developed countries with official languages other than English (Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Greece). Institution repositories, especially if they are Open Access repositories, can significantly increase research impact of their institutions. Number and productivity of Open Access institutional repositories in the seven scientifically peripheral countries will be discussed.