Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

Björk, Bo‐Christer; Welling, Patrik; null, null; Majlender, Péter; Hedlund, Turid; Guðnason, Guðni

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273

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“…Many studies have estimated what proportion of the literature is available OA, including Björk et al (2010), Laakso et al (2011), Laakso andBjörk (2012), Gargouri, Lariviere, Gingras, Carr, and Harnad (2012), Archambault (2013), Archambault et al (2014), andChen (2014). We are not aware of any studies since 2014.…”

Section: Prevalence Of Oamentioning

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The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Piwowar

Priem

Larivière

et al. 2017

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Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and characteristics of OA. We address this need using oaDOI, an open online service that determines OA status for 67 million articles. We use three samples, each of 100,000 articles, to investigate OA in three populations: 1) all journal articles assigned a Crossref DOI, 2) recent journal articles indexed in Web of Science, and 3) articles viewed by users of Unpaywall, an open-source browser extension that lets users find OA articles using oaDOI. We estimate that at least 28% of the scholarly literature is OA (19M in total) and that this proportion is growing, driven particularly by growth in Gold and Hybrid. The most recent year analyzed (2015) also has the highest percentage of OA (45%). Because of this growth, and the fact that readers disproportionately access newer articles, we find that Unpaywall users encounter OA quite frequently: 47% of articles they view are OA. Notably, the most common mechanism for OA is not Gold, Green, or Hybrid OA, but rather an under-discussed category we dub Bronze: articles made free-to-read on the publisher website, without an explicit Open license. We also examine the citation impact of OA articles, corroborating the so-called open-access citation advantage: accounting for age and discipline, OA articles receive 18% more citations than average, an effect driven primarily by Green and Hybrid OA. We encourage further research using the free oaDOI service, as a way to inform OA policy and practice.

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Section: Prevalence Of Oamentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Piwowar

Priem

Larivière

et al. 2017

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“…PubMed Central (PMC) fills this role for life sciences journals; when studying OA scientific literature Björk et al (2010) found PMC to be the most frequently encountered subject based repository, along with arXiv. Standards for inclusion in a repository vary.…”

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Counting the Cost: A Report on APC-Supported Open Access Publishing in a Research Library

Newton

Cunningham

O'Connell

2014

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication

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BACKGROUND At one-hundred twenty-two articles published, the open access journal Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements (Tremor) is growing its readership and expanding its influence among patients, clinicians, researchers, and the general public interested in issues of non-Parkinsonian tremor disorders. Among the characteristics that set the journal apart from similar publications, Tremor is published in partnership with the library-based publications program at Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM The production of Tremor in conjunction with its editor, a researching faculty member, clinician, and epidemiologist at the Columbia University Medical Center, has pioneered several new workflows at CDRS: article-charge processing, coordination of vendor services, integration into PubMed Central, administration of publication scholarships granted through a patient-advocacy organization, and open source platform development among them. Open access publishing ventures in libraries often strive for lean operations by attempting to capitalize on the scholarly impact available through the use of templated and turnkey publication systems. For CDRS, production on Tremor has provided opportunity to build operational capacity for more involved publication needs. The following report introduces a framework and account of the costs of producing such a publication as a guide to library and other non-traditional publishing operations interested in gauging the necessary investments. Following a review of the literature published to date on the costs of open access publishing and of the practice of journal publishing in academic libraries, the authors present a brief history of Tremor and a tabulation of the costs and expenditure of effort by library staff in production. NEXT STEPS Although producing Tremor has been more expensive than other partner publications in the center’s portfolio, the experiences have improved the library’s capacity for addressing more challenging projects, and developments for Tremor have already begun to be applied to other journals.

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“…The lowest overall OA share is in chemistry with 13 % and the highest in earth sciences with 33 %.'' (Björk et al 2010). …”

Section: Green or Gold: Which Is The Better Way?mentioning

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Open Access: A State of the Art

Sitek

Bertelmann

2013

Opening Science

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Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

Cited by 386 publications

References 16 publications

The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles

Counting the Cost: A Report on APC-Supported Open Access Publishing in a Research Library

Open Access: A State of the Art

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