The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Germany

Eger, Thomas; Scheufen, Marc; Meierrieks, Daniel

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“…On the other side, based on a sample of over 3,000 European scholars, Fry et al (2010) reported not only a good understanding and appreciation of the ethos of open access in general but also clear differences between disciplines. This was confirmed by Eger et al (2013) in a study with 2,151 researchers in Germany that revealed significant differences between the scientific disciplines with respect to researchers' awareness of and experience with OA journals and self-archiving. "The perceived relevance and reputation of OA within one's discipline may explain why researchers from particular disciplines (do not) publish in OA journals.…”

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“…A high support for open access in most of the humanities and social sciences (>90%) and in Chemistry, Astronomy, Physics, Engineering and related disciplines (around 80%) was also reported by Dallmeier-Thiessen et al (2010). Eger et al (2013) asserted "remarkable differences" between disciplines -a larger share of open access publishing in natural science disciplines, in particular in Biology, and more support for self-archiving in Physics and Mathematics.…”

Section: Open Access Clusters?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

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International audiencePurposeThis paper aims to present empirical evidence on the opinion and behaviour of French scientists (senior management level) regarding open access (OA) to scientific and technical information.Design/methodology/approachThe results are part of a nationwide survey on scientific information and documentation with 432 directors of French public research laboratories conducted by the French National Research Center (CNRS) in 2014.FindingsThe CNRS senior research managers (laboratory directors) globally share the positive opinion towards OA revealed by other studies with researchers from the UK, Germany, the USA and other countries. However, they are more supportive of open repositories (green road) than of OA journal publishing (gold). The response patterns reveal a gap between generally positive opinions about OA and less supportive behaviours, principally publishing articles with article processing charges (APCs). A small group of senior research managers does not seem to be interested in green or gold OA and reluctant to self-archiving and OA publishing. Similar to other studies, the French survey confirms disciplinary differences, i.e. a stronger support for self-archiving of records and documents in HAL by scientists from Mathematics, Physics and Informatics than from Biology, Earth Sciences and Chemistry; and more experience and positive feelings with OA publishing and payment of APCs in Biology than in Mathematics or in Social Sciences and Humanities. Disciplinary differences and specific French factors are discussed, in particular in the context of the new European policy in favour of Open Science.Originality/valueFor the first time, a nationwide survey was conducted with the senior research management level from all scientific disciplines. The response rate was high (>30 per cent), and the results provide good insight into the real awareness, support and uptake of OA by senior research managers who provide both models (examples for good practice) and opinion leadership

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Section: Open Access Clusters?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

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André³

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“…a preprint culture predating open access). Eger and Scheufen (2018) surveyed over 10,000 academic scholars from all disciplines between 2012 and 2015. They found that disciplines tend to lean either towards gold open access or green access, and distinguish three different publishing cultures:…”

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Toward a Potential Solution of the Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: An Academic Research Community Alliance Model

Miller

Rice

2023

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

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The authors assess the current status of scholarly publishing and reach the conclusion that the current situation is both in a state of flux and not sustainable. While such an assessment is becoming increasingly well understood, a solution to the problems seemingly does not exist. What even embodies an improvement to the current state of scholarly publishing depends on one’s perspective. The authors approach the problem from the perspective of the main producers and consumers of scholarly knowledge—academic and governmental research institutions. From this perspective, they define a set of objectives for scholarly publishing and dissemination of published works, and they assess the challenges with current approaches to meeting these objectives for commercial publishers, professional organization publishers, and academic press publishers. Based on this analysis, the authors propose a new model for academic publishing that might help achieve the stated objectives. The academic research community alliance model suggested is based on the scholarly community taking on the responsibilities of peer review, article production, and knowledge dissemination while acting in an altruistic way of doing so. The proposed approach is described in detail, and both challenges and potential solutions to the impediments to implementing this model are explored. Finally, the authors report on initial efforts to build support for the proposed model, which suggests that meaningful progress on this difficult problem is possible.

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“…Weitere historisch gewachsene, disziplinenspezifische Kulturen in der Verankerung von Open-Science-Praktiken lassen sich auf der Ebene von Publikationspraktiken wie Open Access oder Open Peer Review identifizieren. Hier geben die in den jeweiligen Disziplinen unterschiedlich ausgeprägten Möglichkeiten der Offenheit im Rahmen der tradierten Kommunikations-und Publikationspraktiken von akademischen Inhalten einzelnen Wissenschaftler:innen nur begrenzte Spielräume davon abzuweichen (Bambey, 2016;Eger et al, 2013;Heise, 2018;Severin et al, 2020).…”

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Motive, Anreize und Einflussfaktoren für Open-Science-Praktiken

Röwert

2023

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Meine hier dargelegte Forschungsarbeit behandelt die Frage, wie Wissenschaftler:innen als Persönlichkeiten geprägt sind. Natürlich bin auch ich und damit meine Dissertation von Menschen in meinem Umfeld geprägt, denen ich an dieser Stelle von ganzem Herzen danken möchte.Mein besonderer Dank gilt meinem großartigen Doktorvater Prof. Sönke Knutzen für die mehr als engagierte Betreuung meiner Arbeit, das mir stets entgegengebrachte Vertrauen und den Freiraum, eigene Schwerpunkte zu verfolgen. In den vier Jahren -von den ersten Ideen bis zum Abschluss -nicht nur auf eine offene Tür, sondern immer auch auf ein offenes Ohr zu stoßen, hat wesentlich zum Erfolg beigetragen. Die charismatische und wertschätzende Art des Umgangs hat mich nachhaltig beeindruckt und geprägt.Ebenso danke ich meinem inspirierenden Zweitgutachter, Prof. Andreas Breiter, für seine Bereitschaft, sich unmittelbar und verbindlich auf die von mir entwickelten Forschungsperspektiven einzulassen und dabei sowohl fachlich entscheidende Impulse zu geben als auch persönlich ermutigend zur Seite zu stehen. Darüber hinaus danke ich Herrn Prof. Tobias Knopp für die Übernahme des Prüfungsvorsitzes.Bei allen Kolleg:innen, die ich während meiner Zeit am ITBH der TUHH kennenlernen durfte, bedanke ich mich ausdrücklich für die vielfältige Zusammenarbeit sowie die lösungsorientierte Arbeitsatmosphäre. Besonders hervorzuheben sind Ann-Kathrin Watolla und Vanessa Kortegast als meine Doktorschwestern, bei denen ich mich für das entstandene Wir-Gefühl während der Promotionszeit bedanke. Ebenso bin ich sehr dankbar für die unzähligen Impulse von Kolleg:innen aus der Hochschul-und Wissenschaftsforschung, für die ich hier stellvertretend Prof. Isabel Steinhardt und Dr. Christian Schmid nennen möchte.Nicht zuletzt gilt mein Dank auch allen, die sich als Open-Science-Preisträger:innen für die Interviews als zentrale empirische Basis dieser Arbeit zur Verfügung gestellt haben.Mein persönlicher Dank gilt meinem Familien-und Freundeskreis für den Zuspruch und Respekt, den sie diesem Projekt entgegengebracht haben. Dabei habe ich auch die notwendige Distanz und die wichtigen Ablenkungsmanöver geschätzt. Ganz besonders danke ich meiner Frau Julia für ihre uneingeschränkte und kompetente Unterstützung in all den Jahren. Ihr und meinem Sohn Justus widme ich diese Arbeit.Lübeck, im Februar 2024 Ronny Röwert

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The Determinants of Open Access Publishing: Survey Evidence from Germany

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

Ready for the future? A survey on open access with scientists from the French National Research Center (CNRS)

Toward a Potential Solution of the Crisis in Scholarly Publishing: An Academic Research Community Alliance Model

Motive, Anreize und Einflussfaktoren für Open-Science-Praktiken

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