Grades of Openness: Open and Closed Articles in Norway

Mikki, Susanne; Gjesdal, Øyvind Liland; Strømme, Tormod Eismann

doi:10.3390/publications6040046

Cited by 7 publications

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“…Indeed, Akbaritabar and Stahlschmidt (2019) found 15% of false negative, i.e publications indicated as closed whereas they actually are open access. Also, Mikki, Susanne, et al (2018) show that, for the Norwegian case, the national OA rate measured with oaDOI (previous version of Unpaywall) is 31% when they state it is actually at 70%.…”

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confidence: 99%

Monitoring Open Access at a national level: French case study

Jeangirard¹

2019

ELPUB 2019 23d International Conference on Electronic Publishing

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HAL is a multidisciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L'archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d'enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Monitoring Open Access at a national level: French case study

Jeangirard¹

2019

ELPUB 2019 23d International Conference on Electronic Publishing

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“…Previous bibliometric studies of scholarly publishing landscapes in national contexts have utilized two distinct approaches. Journal level analyses such as Björk's (2019), and article level studies such as Mikki et al (2018) and Wang et al (2018). Notwithstanding their approach, these studies reveal and corroborate the existence of a shortcoming in bibliometrics indexing services as identified by Mongeon and Paul-Hus (2015) and later by Somoza-Fernández et al (2018).…”

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confidence: 63%

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Boufarss

2020

Scientometrics

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The purpose of this study is to chart the scholarly journal landscape in the UAE in order to provide a scientific perspective on research productivity, distribution, and access in the country and lay the foundations for further research in this area. The study aims also to contribute to research endeavoring to paint a global picture of scholarly publishing. We carried out a mapping of scholarly journals published in the UAE compiled from international and local sources. The resulting journal list was studied focusing on the share of OA titles, language of publication, discipline, and type of publisher. Our results show that: (1) 534 journals are published in the UAE and that the share of OA is quite noteworthy with about 64% of all online journals; (2) the APC-based OA model is prevalent with around 75% of OA journals levying a publication fee; (3) UAE journals are predominantly in English while the number of Arabic-language journals is marginal; (4) science, technology and medicine prevail as the most prevalent subject areas of the journals; and (5) commercial publishers control most of the publications especially in the medical field. The study lays a foundation for further studies on scholarly journals in the UAE. The combination of regional indexes and international directories to measure the country's scholarly journal output can also be replicated and built upon for other countries where the major international bibliometric databases do not provide a comprehensive representation of scholarly publishing activities.

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“…Different methods are used according to the aims of the research. Some studies focus on a given country (Abediyarandi & Mayr 2019;Bosman & Kramer 2019;Holmberg et al 2019;Mikki et al 2018;Piryani et al 2019;Pölönen et al 2019;Sivertsen et al 2019) open access type (Wang et al 2018) or funder (Kirkman 2018). Others aim for a global overview (Archambault et al 2014;Laakso et al 2011;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piwowar et al 2018;Robinson-Garcia et al 2020Wang et al 2018.…”

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“…Citation advantage is another topic that has been hotly debated in the literature. Research almost always finds a positive correlation between open access and citation rate (Archambault et al 2014;Copiello 2019;McCabe & Snyder 2014;Mikki et al 2018;Ottaviani 2016;Piwowar et al 2018;Piwowar et al 2019;Wang et al 2015). However confounding factors cast considerable uncertainty over direct causation (Gaulé & Maystre 2011;Torres-Salinas et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Only two out of five articles by New Zealand researchers are free-to-access: a multiple API study of access, citations, cost of Article Processing Charges (APC), and the potential to increase the proportion of open access

White

Angelo

Fitchett

et al. 2020

Preprint

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We studied journal articles published by researchers at all eight of New Zealand universities in 2017 to determine how many were freely accessible on the web. We wrote software code to harvest data from multiple sources, code that we now share to enable others to reproduce our work on their own sample set. In May 2019, we ran our code to determine which of the 2017 articles were open at that time and by what method; where those articles would have incurred an Article Processing Charge (APC) we calculated the cost if those charges had been paid. Where articles were not freely available we determined whether the policies of publishers in each case would have allowed deposit in a non-commercial repository (Green open access). We also examined average citation rates for different types of access. We found that, of our 2017 sample set, about two out of every five articles were freely accessible without payment or subscription (41%). Where research was explicitly said to be funded by New Zealand's major research funding agencies, the proportion was slightly higher at 49%. Where open articles would have incurred an APC we estimated an average cost per article of USD1,682 (for publications where all articles require an APC, that is, Gold open access) and USD2,558 (where APC payment is optional, Hybrid open access) at a total estimated cost of USD1.45m. Of the paid options, Gold is by far more common for New Zealand researchers (82% Gold, 18% Hybrid). Where articles were not freely accessible we found that a very large majority of them (88%) could have been legally deposited in an institutional repository. In terms of average citation rates, we found Green and Hybrid open access to achieve the highest rates, higher than other forms of open access and higher still than research that is only available via payment. Given that most New Zealand researchers support research being open, there is clearly a large gap between belief and practice in New Zealand's research ecosystem, despite a clear citation advantage for open access over research that is not freely accessible.

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Grades of Openness: Open and Closed Articles in Norway

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

Monitoring Open Access at a national level: French case study

Monitoring Open Access at a national level: French case study

Charting the Open Access scholarly journals landscape in the UAE

Only two out of five articles by New Zealand researchers are free-to-access: a multiple API study of access, citations, cost of Article Processing Charges (APC), and the potential to increase the proportion of open access

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