Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

Ciriminna, Rosaria; Scurria, Antonino; Gangadhar, Sumalatha; Chandha, Saikiran; Pagliaro, Mario

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08638

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“…Both studies showed also that most documents had been deposited by a librarian or administrative staff. This observation has been confirmed by [18]: "Despite outreach, few faculty self-deposit anywhere (…) most (repositories) are being filled by persons at the institution explicitly tasked with doing so rather than eager faculty" and by [19]: "Regardless of (…) efforts to disseminate the ideas and the practice of open science, most world's scholars in the early 2020s do not yet publish their works in preprint form and do not self-archive their research articles". In one case study, many authors who participated heavily in disciplinary repositories did not deposit their own papers in the institutional repository [20].…”

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The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access

Schöpfel¹,

Chaudiron²,

Jacquemin³

et al. 2023

Preprint

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(1) Background: The 2002 Budapest Open Access Initiative recommended on self-archiving of scientific articles in open repositories as the “green road” to open access. Twenty years later, only one part of the researchers deposits their publications in open repositories; moreover, one part of the repositories’ content is not based on self-archived deposits but on mediated nonfaculty contributions. The purpose of the paper is to provide more empirical evidence on this situation and to assess the impact on the future of the green road. (2) Methods: We analyzed the contributions on the French national HAL repository from more than 1,000 laboratories affiliated to the ten most important French research universities, with a focus on 2020, representing 14,023 contributor accounts and 166,939 deposits. (3) Results: We identified seven different types of contributor accounts, including deposits from nonfaculty staff and import flows from other platforms. Mediated nonfaculty contribution accounts for at least 48% of the deposits. We also identified difference between institutions and disciplines. (4) Conclusions: Our empirical results reveal a transformation of open repositories from self-archiving and direct scientific communication towards research information management. Repositories like HAL are somewhere in the middle of the process. The paper describes data quality as the main issue and major challenge of this transformation.

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The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access

Schöpfel¹,

Chaudiron²,

Jacquemin³

et al. 2023

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“…[39] This reluctance, in brief, has been due to a widespread lack of education on open science, [4,29] resulting in a similarly widespread ignorance of its benefits for the academic career. [40] One might object that since Italian universities do not recruit professors according to their h -index or other bibliometric indicators, [41] Italian researchers would not be interested in rising their citation-based metrics. This, however, is not the case because at least the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) necessary to take part into recruitment and promotion process (from researcher to associate professor, and from associate to full professor) is based on citation-based metrics of publications in indexed academic journals.…”

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Open science in Italy: lessons learned en route to opening scholarship

Ciriminna¹,

Pagliaro²

2022

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“…[1] In brief, alongside the practice to make research articles openly accessible either by publishing in open access (OA) journals or via self‐archiving, preprinting research is the main pillar of the new scholarly communication process typical of open science. [2] …”

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Preprints in Chemistry: a Research Team's Journey**

Ciriminna

Pagliaro

2022

ChemistryOpen

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The benefits of publishing research papers first in preprint form are substantial and long‐lasting also in chemistry. Recounting the outcomes of our team's nearly six‐year journey through preprint publishing, we show evidence that preprinting research substantially benefits both early career and senior researchers in today's highly interdisciplinary chemical research. These findings are of general value, as shown by analyzing the case of four more research teams based in economically developed and developing countries.

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Reaping the benefits of open science in scholarly communication

Cited by 19 publications

References 31 publications

The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access

The Transformation of the Green Road to Open Access

Open science in Italy: lessons learned en route to opening scholarship

Preprints in Chemistry: a Research Team's Journey**

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