An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management

Lyons, Charles; Booth, Hollie

doi:10.1080/08963568.2011.554786

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“…This study confirmed what previous studies (e.g., Coonin, 2011;Coonin & Younce, 2010;Harley, Acord, Earl-Novell, Lawrence & King, 2010;Kozak & Hartley, 2013;Lyons & Booth, 2011;Moore, 2011) have noted: that disciplinary differences exist in attitudes to OA journal publishing, While arts and humanities, science and health science and social science participants conveyed a range of knowledge and attitudes about OA journal publishing, business faculty displayed a level of certainty and negativity that stood out. Business researchers were most likely to feel that they would never publish in an OA journal, that current tenure and promotion guidelines discouraged publication in OA journals, and were almost unanimous in their belief that OA journals were of lower quality than subscription journals.…”

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An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

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Introduction: This exploratory study was intended to shed light on Canadian academics' participation in, knowledge of and attitudes towards Open Access (OA) journal publishing. The primary aim of the study was to inform the authors' schools' educational and outreach efforts to faculty regarding OA publishing. The survey was conducted at two Canadian comprehensive universities: Brock University (St. Catharines, Ontario) and Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario) in 2014. Methods: A web-based survey was distributed to faculty at each university. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Limitations: Despite the excellent response rates, the results are not generalizable beyond these two institutions. Results: The Brock response rate was 38%; the Laurier response rate was 23% from full-time faculty and five percent from part-time faculty. Brock and Laurier faculty members share common characteristics in both their publishing practices and attitudes towards OA. Science/health science researchers were the most positive about OA journal publishing; arts and humanities and social sciences respondents were more mixed in their

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Section: The Value Of Open Accesssupporting

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An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

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“…These figures can be compared to 21 % for Information Systems research , 26 % for Library Information Systems (Way 2010) and 36 % for Business and Management (Lyons and Booth 2011).…”

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A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields

Björk

2012

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The Internet has profoundly changed the technical infrastructure for the publishing of scientific peer reviewed journals. The traditional business model of selling the content to subscribers is increasingly being challenged by Open Access (OA) journals, which are either run at low cost by voluntary academics or which sell dissemination services to authors. In addition authors in many fields are taking advantage of the legal possibilities of uploading free manuscript versions to institutional or subject-based repositories, in order to increase readership and impact. This study looks closer at the current publishing situation in construction management and related fields and compares empirical data about 17 OA journals and 16 traditional subscription journals. Of the articles published in 2011 in the subscription journals only 9 % could be found as OA copies. The overall OA availability (including articles in OA journals) was 14 % for Construction Management and Economics and 29 % for construction IT scholarship. The study also compared the scientific quality of OA journals to subscription journals using a number of citation indexes. Four of the OA journals are approaching the citation levels (using Scopus data) of the average subscription journals. OA journals are outperforming subscription journals by almost a year in speed of publication.

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“…Charles and Booth 2011;Miguel et al 2013), however, there are fewer on the estimation of the rate of open access availability of journal articles in different subject fields. Björk et al (2010) studied a random sample of 1837 articles and searched them using Google.…”

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Open access and sources of full-text articles in Google Scholar in different subject fields

Jamali

Nabavi

2015

Scientometrics

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Google Scholar, a widely used academic search engine, plays a major role in finding free full-text versions of articles. But little is known about the sources of full-text files in Google Scholar. The aim of the study was to find out about the sources of full-text items and to look at subject differences in terms of number of versions, times cited, rate of open access availability and sources of full-text files. Three queries were created for each of 277 minor subject categories of Scopus. The queries were searched in Google Scholar and the first ten hits for each query were analyzed. Citations and patents were excluded from the results and the time frame was limited to 2004-2014. Results showed that 61.1 % of articles were accessible in full-text in Google Scholar; 80.8 % of full-text articles were publisher versions and 69.2 % of full-text articles were PDF. There was a significant difference between the means of times cited of full text items and non-full-text items. The highest rate of full text availability for articles belonged to life science (66.9 %). Publishers' websites were the main source of bibliographic information for non-full-text articles. For full-text articles, educational (edu, ac.xx etc.) and org domains were top two sources of full text files. ResearchGate was the top single website providing full-text files (10.5 % of full-text articles).

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An Overview of Open Access in the Fields of Business and Management

Cited by 21 publications

References 15 publications

An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

An Exploration of Faculty Experiences With Open Access Journal Publishing at Two Canadian Comprehensive Universities

A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields

Open access and sources of full-text articles in Google Scholar in different subject fields

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