Open Access Levels and Patterns in Scholarly Articles from India

Piryani, Rajesh; Dua, J. C.; Singh, Vivek Kumar

doi:10.18520/cs/v117/i9/1435-1440

Cited by 11 publications

(14 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Unsurprisingly, older studies report lower rates (Bjork et al 2010;Gargouri et al 2010), reinforcing the findings of many scholars that open access is on the rise (Abediyarandi & Mayr 2019;Archambault et al 2014;Archambault et al 2013;Gargouri et al 2010;Laakso et al 2011;Maddi 2019;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piwowar et al 2018;Wang et al 2018). The growth of Gold open access in particular has been noted (Archambault et al 2014;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piryani et al 2019;Pölönen et al 2019). Despite this, the literature clearly shows that open access development varies by discipline (Bjork et al 2010;Bosman & Kramer 2019;Maddi 2019;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piryani et al 2019;Robinson-Garcia et al 2020;Sivertsen et al 2019) and country (Archambault et al 2014;Maddi 2019;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Robinson-Garcia et al 2020Sivertsen et al 2019Torres-Salinas et al 2019;Wang et al 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…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.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The growth of Gold open access in particular has been noted (Archambault et al 2014;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piryani et al 2019;Pölönen et al 2019). Despite this, the literature clearly shows that open access development varies by discipline (Bjork et al 2010;Bosman & Kramer 2019;Maddi 2019;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Piryani et al 2019;Robinson-Garcia et al 2020;Sivertsen et al 2019) and country (Archambault et al 2014;Maddi 2019;Martín-Martín et al 2018;Robinson-Garcia et al 2020Sivertsen et al 2019Torres-Salinas et al 2019;Wang et al 2018).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

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

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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.

show abstract

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 79%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

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

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Some studies have also analysed the level of OA adoptions and contributions of scholarly literature by Indian researchers in different OA outlets 6-14-27-28-29 . In accordance with the research publication data retrieved from Web of Science (WoS) database from 2014 to 2018 in India, Piryani, Dua, and Singh 29 examined the degree of OA adoption and trends of Indian research productivity. Their findings reported that 24 per cent of Indian publications are accessible openly in contrast to the international average, i.e.…”

Section: Open Access Initiatives In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing Open Access Uptake by Academic and Research Institutions in India

Nazim

2021

DESIDOC Jl. Lib. Info. Technol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The commitment to Open Access (OA) movement has started revolutionising the outline of conventional scholarly publishing practices and welcoming the new wind to scientific research across the world. Motivating by the changing scenario, the study strives to analyse OA uptake by the Indian academic and research institutions concerning their research productivity. Publication data of 36 universities have been retrieved from the 2020 record of CWTS Leiden Ranking database. Findings of the study show that around 23 per cent of all publications of these universities are openly accessible, and their median OA publications proportion is much lower (around half) than the median measure of universities worldwide (43 %). ‘Green OA’ reserved the first place with 17 per cent of occurrence, and Biomedical and Health Sciences have achieved the highest median (34.37 %). The study concludes with a vision towards increasing the global collaboration of the academic institutions regarding OA following the account of the Indian achievements.

show abstract

“…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, Gjesdal & Strømme, 2018 ; Piryani, Dua & Singh, 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, Costas & Leeuwen, 2020 ; Wang et al, 2018 ).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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. 2021

PeerJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We studied journal articles published by researchers at all eight 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 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 45%. 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). In terms of citations, our analysis aligned with previous studies that suggest a correlation between publications being freely accessible and, on balance, slightly higher rates of citation. This is not seen across all types of open access, however, with Diamond OA achieving the lowest rates. Where articles were not freely accessible we found that a very large majority of them (88% or 3089 publications) could have been legally deposited in an institutional repository. Similarly, only in a very small number of cases had a version deposited in the repository of a New Zealand university made the difference between the publication being freely accessible or not (125 publications). 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.

show abstract

Open Access Levels and Patterns in Scholarly Articles from India

Cited by 11 publications

References 0 publications

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

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

Analysing Open Access Uptake by Academic and Research Institutions in India

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

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About