Opening Up Communication: Assessing Open Access Practices in the Communication Studies Discipline

Schultz, Teresa

doi:10.7710/2162-3309.2131

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“…Indeed, Grandbois and Beheshti (2014) purposely limited their study sample to those published in 2011 or prior to allow for any possible embargoes to run out. However, other studies have shown that authors don't follow journal deposit policies and will post copies of their work to open repositories in violation of them (Jamali 2017;Atchison and Bull 2015;Schultz 2017).…”

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Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research

Schultz¹

2017

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The open access movement seeks to encourage all researchers to make their works openly available and free of paywalls so more people can access their knowledge. Yet some researchers who study open access (OA) continue to publish their work in paywalled journals and fail to make it open. This project set out to study just how many published research articles about OA fall into this category, how many are being made open (whether by being published in a gold OA or hybrid journal or through open deposit), and how library and information science authors compare to other disciplines researching this field. Because of the growth of tools available to help researchers find open versions of articles, this study also sought to compare how these new tools compare to Google Scholar in their ability to disseminating OA research. From a sample collected from Web of Science of articles published since 2010, the study found that although a majority of research articles about OA are open in some form, a little more than a quarter are not. A smaller rate of library science researchers made their work open compared to non-library science researchers. In looking at the copyright of these articles published in hybrid and open journals, authors were more likely to retain copyright ownership if they printed in an open journal compared to authors in hybrid journals. Articles were more likely to be published with a Creative Commons license if published in an open journal compared to those published in hybrid journals.

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Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research

Schultz¹

2017

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“…International Journal of Communication 10 2016An analysis of OA citation rates in the discipline (Schultz, 2016) found that OA articles garnered twice as many cites as their tolled counterparts. There is nothing shameful about this boost or the underlying motive for individual researchers to expand their scholarly visibility.…”

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Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies

Pooley

2019

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This commentary, after outlining the broader rationale for open access in scholarly publishing, makes three arguments to support the claim that media and communication scholars should be at the forefront of the open access movement: (1) The topics that we write about are inescapably multimedia, so our publishing platforms should be capable— at the very least—of embedding the objects that we study; (2) media studies, owing to their fragmentation and marginality, can sidestep the prestige “penalty” that drags down other disciplines’ open access efforts; and (3) our rich research traditions on popular media dynamics are begging to be applied (and perhaps rethought) in the context of scholarly communication.

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“…Since the beginning of the 2000s, researchers have become interested in the way in which open access tends to affect how citations are counted. Over the course of 2 decades, many studies have been conducted for various scientific disciplines, and the majority of them have been dependent on the hypothesis that open access has a positive effect on citation dynamics, despite the fact that the data collected in this respect differ significantly from one scientific field to another (Antelman, 2004(Antelman, , 2017Donovan et al, 2015;Hajjem et al, 2006;Harnad & Brody, 2004;Kousha & Abdoli, 2010;Makeenko & Trishchenko, 2018;McCabe & Snyder, 2015;Norris et al, 2008;Schultz, 2017;Wohlrabe & Birkmeier, 2014;Xu et al, 2011;Zhang, 2006).…”

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Acesso Aberto e Conhecimento Científico: Entre a Res Publica e o Modelo de Negócio. Uma Revisão da Literatura

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Трищенко

2021

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A discussão sobre aquilo que o acesso aberto pode dar à ciência polarizou-se nos últimos anos. Se, por um lado, a primeira década do novo milénio nos trouxe um entusiasmo que poderemos considerar como bastante abrangente na comunidade científica, relativamente às grandes potencialidades de abertura do conhecimento, da sua comunicação e partilha, e dos mecanismos de participação cidadã no processo científico, os últimos anos trouxeram-nos um novo debate que aborda a derivação do acesso aberto para um novo modelo de negócio. Ao sustentarmos o presente artigo numa extensa revisão da literatura de um tema que é, ainda hoje, residual nos estudos que intersectam as áreas da comunicação de ciência e da economia da ciência, propusemo-nos sintetizar as principais razões evocadas de um lado e do outro. Entre os pontos positivos destacados na relação entre acesso aberto e conhecimento científico, destacam-se o potencial difusor do acesso aberto na disseminação de conhecimento, o aumento da visibilidade desse conhecimento produzido, o envolvimento da sociedade e dos profissionais no processo científico, através de lógicas de participação cívica e interpares, a maior eficiência e interação com benefícios para os próprios projetos de investigação, a retenção dos direitos de publicação pelos autores, a redistribuição de recursos, e a maior transparência de um modelo de natureza mais escrutinadora. Entre os pontos negativos, destaca-se essencialmente a incapacidade de combater uma espécie de economia da ciência paralela que tira proveito do acesso aberto e das lógicas de sofreguidão da produção académica para instituir as designadas article processing charges, pouco transparentes e com valores e taxas de publicação muitas vezes superiores aos vários milhares de euros, que atentam contra os princípios da ciência aberta e que são geradoras de desigualdades de oportunidades dentro da própria comunidade científica.

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Opening Up Communication: Assessing Open Access Practices in the Communication Studies Discipline

Cited by 6 publications

References 21 publications

Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research

Practicing What You Preach: Evaluating Access of Open Access Research

Open Media Scholarship: The Case for Open Access in Media Studies

Acesso Aberto e Conhecimento Científico: Entre a Res Publica e o Modelo de Negócio. Uma Revisão da Literatura

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