Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access

Rodriguez, Allyson

doi:10.5860/crln.78.5.270

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“…Far fewer studies of this nature that are constrained to strictly open access journals exist. This could partially be caused by the fact that open access journals are still not widely popular in developed nations [34]. A recent study which analyzed some 5208 open access publications found that publications were typified by having a single author [35].…”

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International Collaboration in Open Access Publications: How Income Shapes International Collaboration

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Rockwell

2020

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Does the rise of open access journals change the way researchers collaborate? Specifically, since publishing in open access journals requires a publication fee, does income affect how researchers form international collaborations? To answer this question, we create a new data set by scraping bibliographic data from Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) journals. Using the four income group classifications from the World Bank Analytical Classifications, we find that researchers from low-income nations are more likely to form international collaborations than researchers from wealthier nations. This result is verified to be significant using a series of pairwise Kolmogorov–Smirnov tests. We then study which nations most frequently form international collaborations with other nations and find that the USA, China, Germany, and France are the most preferred nations for forming international collaborations. While most nations prefer to form international collaborations with high-income nations, some exceptions exist, where a nation most often forms international collaborations with a nearby nation that is either an upper-middle-income or lower-middle-income nation. We further this analysis by showing that these results are apparent across the six different research categories established in the Frascati Manual. Finally, trends in publications in MDPI journals mirror trends seen in all journals, such as the continued increase in the percentage of published papers involving international collaboration.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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International Collaboration in Open Access Publications: How Income Shapes International Collaboration

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Rockwell

2020

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“…Concomitantly with these developments, and in striking contrast with traditional publishing norms, some scholars and librarians today have undertaken to develop models that allow OA to research materials; such models turn the library into a mediator between Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and Recent Developments DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82075 researchers and publications and thus increase the power of the library and its involvement in scholarly communication [36]. As a result, one of the new assignments of librarians is adding OA resources to the library catalog [37].…”

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“…Among others, the Toolkit suggests partnering with academic departments to host public events to proactively inform faculty, students, and university administrators of the latest development of key scholarly communication topics; identifying allies among faculty and students and collaborating with them to create and adopt an OA policy at the institution; promoting the benefits of using and creating open educational resources; collaborating with the graduate school and similar programs concerned with scholarly authorship, publication, and research data management; hosting workshops; and collaborating with library schools to train future information professionals [7]. Important agents in obtaining these aims and reaching out to faculty are subject librarians, who are typically more aware of research and publications coming from their faculty and who can thus alert the repository librarian to any relevant research output [37].…”

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Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and Recent Developments

Klain-Gabbay¹,

Shoham²

2019

A Complex Systems Perspective of Communication From Cells to Societies

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This chapter focuses on the role that academic libraries play in the process of scholarly communication and presents a mixed-methods study to investigate (a) how faculty members perceive the involvement of academic librarians in scholarly communication and (b) how academic librarians perceive their own abilities to be involved in this process. The research population included faculty members from the faculties of humanities and social sciences in three Israeli academic institutions and academic librarians working in the libraries affiliated with these faculties. Interviews regarding the role of academic librarians in scholarly communication indicated wide gaps between faculty members and academic librarians and between individual members of each group, while questionnaires showed that a similar percentage of librarians and faculty members believe that academic librarians are potentially capable of being involved in this process. However, when asked whether the academic librarians should be involved in scholarly communication, only 36% of the librarians answered positively, as compared with 55% of the faculty members. These gaps highlight the need for change in academic libraries, as librarians should possess adequate technological skills, broad general knowledge, and an understanding of how to reorganize the library work so as to accommodate collaborations with faculty members.

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“…Peter Suber attempts to do just that in the 'What OA is Not' section of his summative primer Open Access (2012, 20-27), where he tackles both positive and negative assumptions. Allyson Rodriguez (2017) further argues that scholarly communication librarians need to actively engage their faculty colleagues on the topic in order to normalize open access, and so far, libraries have led solutions to this issue by putting policies and systems into place that encourage easy, supported, open access publishing.…”

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Open+: Versioning Open Social Scholarship

Arbuckle

2019

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Advocates of the Open Access (OA) movement have been fighting for free and unfettered access to research output since the early 1990s. Open access is a crucial element of a fair, efficient scholarly communication system where all are able to find, interpret, and use the results of publicly-funded research. Universal open access is more possible now than ever before, thanks to networked technologies and the development of open scholarship policies. But what happens after access to research is provided? In this paper I argue that versioning scholarship across varying modes and formats would move scholarly communication from a straightforward open access system to a more engaging environment for multiple communities.

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Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access

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International Collaboration in Open Access Publications: How Income Shapes International Collaboration

International Collaboration in Open Access Publications: How Income Shapes International Collaboration

Scholarly Communication and the Academic Library: Perceptions and Recent Developments

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