Journal publishing models in the Czech Republic

Suchá, Ladislava Zbiejczuk; Steinerová, Jela

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“…In contrast, prior studies indicate significantly higher OA shares for other countries and for publications in languages other than English. 18 This detail motivates us to split the data into two world regions (the Big Four countries vs. the rest of the world). This same split has earlier been used in a slightly different context by Solomon et al 19 To account for the scientific quality of journals, we use a simplified method.…”

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Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study

Björk

Korkeamäki

2020

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Scientific journal publishers have rapidly converted during the past 25 years to predominantly electronic dissemination, but the reader-pays business model continues to dominate the market. Open Access (OA) publishing, where the articles are freely readable on the net, has slowly increased its market share to near 20 percent but has failed to fulfill the visions of rapid proliferation predicted by many early proponents. The growth of OA has also been very uneven across fields of science. We report market shares of open access in 18 Scopus-indexed disciplines ranging from 27 percent (agriculture) to 7 percent (business). The differences become far more pronounced for journals published in the four countries that dominate commercial scholarly publishing (US, UK, Germany, and the Netherlands). We present contrasting developments within six academic disciplines. Availability of funding to pay publication charges, pressure from research funding agencies, and the diversity of discipline-specific research communication cultures arise as potential explanations for the observed differences.

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Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study

Björk

Korkeamäki

2020

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“…Navas () found that 37% of the OA journals listed in the Spanish Dulcinea service were also in DOAJ. Suchá and Steinerevá () estimated that 51% of 612 Czech scholarly journals were OA. As only 78 of those were registered in DOAJ, that represents a 25% share of all OA Czech journals.…”

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Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries

Björk

2019

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The number of open access (OA) journals and their share of all scholarly journals are usually estimated based on indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ's coverage of OA journals from different regions of the world is, however, far from complete, particularly of journals publishing in languages other than English. Using alternative data sources for identification and manual verification, 437 scholarly OA journals published in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) were identified, and some key characteristics were studied. Of these, only 184 were indexed in DOAJ. A vast majority of the journals was published by scholarly societies or universities. Social sciences and humanities dominated as topics, and few journals charge authors. National or university‐specific OJS portals have played a major role in enabling OA publishing. Around a third of the Nordic scholarly journals are currently OA.

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“…In addition, the purpose of professional actors should be better framed as the maximization of the (long-run) enterprise value rather than the (near-term) profit [60], with the implication that the care about the end-user and stakeholder need not differ between for-profit and non-profit publishing ventures. Furthermore, although publishers of different natures are prone to relying on distinct revenue sources, some case studies call into question the assertion that OA and traditional subscription-based journals do not share the same business model [61]. Broadly speaking, whatever the target is, non-profit players also need to cover their costs, which is likely to happen for APCs at a level not too different from that which we are experiencing today, unless substantial savings can be achieved in the investment and operational costs [21,22,62].…”

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Business as Usual with Article Processing Charges in the Transition towards OA Publishing: A Case Study Based on Elsevier

Copiello

2020

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This paper addresses the topic of the article processing charges (APCs) that are paid when publishing articles using the open access (OA) option. Building on the Elsevier OA price list, company balance sheet figures, and ScienceDirect data, tentative answers to three questions are outlined using a Monte Carlo approach to deal with the uncertainty inherent in the inputs. The first question refers to the level of APCs from the market perspective, under the hypothesis that all the articles published in Elsevier journals exploit the OA model so that the subscription to ScienceDirect becomes worthless. The second question is how much Elsevier should charge for publishing all the articles under the OA model, assuming the profit margin reduces and adheres to the market benchmark. The third issue is how many articles would have to be accepted, in an OA-only publishing landscape, so that the publisher benefits from the same revenue and profit margin as in the recent past. The results point to high APCs, nearly twice the current level, being required to preserve the publisher's profit margin. Otherwise, by relaxing that constraint, a downward shift of APCs can be expected so they would tend to get close to current values. Accordingly, the article acceptance rate could be likely to grow from 26-27% to about 35-55%.

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Journal publishing models in the Czech Republic

Abstract: ABSTRACT. In 2014 we undertook a survey on the shifts in scholarly publishing in connection with

Cited by 6 publications

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Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study

Adoption of the Open Access Business Model in Scientific Journal Publishing: A Cross-disciplinary Study

Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries

Business as Usual with Article Processing Charges in the Transition towards OA Publishing: A Case Study Based on Elsevier

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