Openness of Spanish scholarly journals as measured by access and rights

Melero, Remedios; null, null; Navas-Fernández, Miguel

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“…Regarding relevant studies related to Spain, there are articles analysing open access editorial practices (Melero et al, 2017)…”

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“…Regarding relevant studies related to Spain, there are articles analysing open access editorial practices (Melero et al, 2017), perceptions towards open access (Ruiz‐Pérez & Delgado‐López‐Cózar, 2017), to open access and peer review (Segado‐Boj et al, 2018), towards open science (Rodríguez‐Bravo & Nicholas, 2021), and recently with a focus on philosophy (Feenstra & López‐Cózar, 2022) and drivers and barriers in the transition to open science (González‐Teruel et al, 2022). The aim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial practices related to open access, preprints, underlying data and open peer review, from the perspective of editors of scientific journals published in Spain.…”

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Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain

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Pillars of open science are often included within the editorial policies of scholarly journals, including policies on open access publication, availability of underlying research data, preprints and open peer review. The aim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial practices related to open access, preprints, open research data and open peer review, from the perspective of editors of scientific journals published in Spain, to gain an insight into editorial policies related to open science. Results and data were obtained by a combined method of online interviews and an online questionnaire. The online survey was sent to editors from journals indexed in the Dulcinea directory, which at the time of the study included 1875 academic journals. A total of 420 responses (22.4%) were obtained. The results indicated that 92% of the journals were open access journals, 2% of the journals conducted open peer review, 15% of the journals had instructions to allow archiving preprints, and out of 375 responses, only 59 journals (16%) reported having a policy on underlying research data. Based on these results, there is a trend in favour of open access, but the perceived barriers to open peer review outweighed the advantages.There is also some reluctance to allow preprints to be made available. This concern might be because editors want authors and readers to read and cite the contents published in their journals, rather than their preprint versions.

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“…Regarding relevant studies related to Spain, there are articles analysing open access editorial practices (Melero et al, 2017)…”

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Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain

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“…In the first, conducted on 1005 journals indexed in Scopus belonging to different disciplines and using all six spectrum variables, no journal obtained a 100% score [26]. In the case of Spanish scholarly journals, a study using the same approach as in this study, applying only the first four variables of the spectrum, found that, in contrast with SciELO, health sciences journals obtained the lowest openness scores [27]. This was because many Spanish biomedical journals are published by commercial publishers, and their content is accessed mainly by subscription, which significantly affects the reader rights component.…”

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Open access editorial policies of SciELO health sciences journals

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2021

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SciELO promotes open access and cooperative publication of scholarly journals, based mainly in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. SciELO was created to offer solutions to increase the visibility of participating journals and facilitate free access to their full texts. This work aims to analyse the open access editorial policies implemented by the health sciences journals of the SciELO network (411 journals at the time of this study) in terms of authors’ rights, copyright issues, self-archiving policies and openness. From SciELO health sciences journals network, 92% of the 411 journals use a Creative Commons licence, 89% require transfer of author copyright and 14% apply author processing charges. According to the past SHERPA/RoMEO taxonomy of self-archiving policies, 8.5% of the journals were classified as white, 81.5% blue and 10% green. The openness of journals calculated through the Open Access Spectrum approach was higher than 60% in more than 80% of the total journals. Out of the 411 journals in SciELO portals, 380 have their own website. Discrepancies were found between licences stated in SciELO compared with the ones used in their websites, mainly due to the lack of declared licences in either of the two sources or because the licences did not match. The licences used on the websites and in SciELO were also compared with their corresponding records in the Directory of Open Access Journals and Crossref, and again the differences were narrowly related to the data supplier.

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“…Aldaketa-garaiotan aldizkarien irekiera-maila eta egile-eskubideen eta lizentzien erabilera ez da ezagutzen euskal aldizkarien kasuan, inguruko hizkuntzetan luze eta zabal aztertu den gaia den arren (Melero, Laakso, eta Navas-Fernández 2017), eta argitaletxeen politikak jasotzeko propio sortutako datu-baseak ere badaude: Dulcinea 6 eta Sherpa/Romeo 7 . 6.…”

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Bilbo, 2021eko apirila-ekaina Euskarazko aldizkari zientifikoak zientziaren komunikazio-sistemanOskia Agirre EHU/UPVko liburuzaina Zientziaren komunikazio-sistemak aldaketa sakonak jasan ditu azken urteotan eta euskal aldizkari zientifikoak ez dira ondo ezagutzen. Egungo ikerketaren ebaluaziosistemek aldizkari jakin batzuetan eta ingelesez argitaratzera bultzatzen dituzte ikertzaileak. Hala eta guztiz ere, diziplina jakin batzuetan, eta batez ere gizarte-zein giza zientzietan, bertako hizkuntzak erabiltzen dituzten aldizkari zientifikoek bestelako funtzio batzuk ere betetzen dituzte, hala nola trebakuntza, ezagutzeren transmisioan zubi-lana eta ezagutza-hutsuneak betetzea. Artikulu honetan, Inguma datu-basetik abiatuz, euskarazko edukiak argitaratzen dituzten aldizkariak identifikatu dira (41), eta honako ezaugarriak aztertu dira: zer arlotakoak diren, azken urtean argitaratutako euskarazko edukien kopurua, argitaratzaile motak, artikuluen laburpenetan eta webguneetan erabilitako hizkuntzak, formatuak eta sarbide motak, egile-eskubideen zehaztapenak, CC lizentzia motak eta indexazio datu-baseetan aldizkari horiek duten presentzia. Nagusi dira unibertsitateetako argitalpen-zerbitzuek eta irabazi-asmorik gabeko erakundeek argitaratutako sarbide irekiko aldizkariak, erdia baino gehiago gizarte-zientzietakoak. Indexazio datu-baseetan duten presentzia gorabeheratsua da; estatu-mailako datu-baseetan dute presentzia handiena. GAKO-HITZAK: Euskal aldizkari zientifikoak • Zientziaren komunikazio-sistema • Sarbide irekia. Publish or perish. Basque scientific journals in the science communication systemThe science communication system has suffered deep changes in the past years and studies about Basque scientific journals are still scarce. The current research evaluation system promotes publishing in some English scientific journals. Even so, in some subjects, especially in social sciences and humanities, the local journals which publish in local languages accomplish other functions, such as training, knowledge bridging and filling knowledge gaps. In this study, I identify 41 journals that publish Basque articles out of the total number of journals listed in Inguma and I analyse the following characteristics: journal subject areas, the percentage of articles in Basque published during the last year, the type of publisher, the languages used in both the abstracts of articles and the websites of journals, the type of formats and access, the copyright holder, the type of CC licenses and, finally, the indexation on databases. Open access journals published by the publishing services of universities and non-profit organizations, more than half of them in the social sciences, predominate. Their presence in indexing databases is fluctuating, with a greater presence in national databases.

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Openness of Spanish scholarly journals as measured by access and rights

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Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain

Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editors of scholarly publications published in Spain

Open access editorial policies of SciELO health sciences journals

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