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Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself."[1] They remove price barriers (e.g. subscription, licensing fees, pay-per-view fees) and most permission barriers (e.g. copyright and licensing restrictions).[1] While open access journals are freely available to the reader, there are still costs associated with the publication and production of such journals. Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.[1]

Some open access journals are subsidized and are financed by an academic institution, learned society or a government information center. Others are financed by payment of article processing charges by submitting authors, money typically made available to researchers by their institution or funding agency.[2] Sometimes these two are referred to respectively as "gold" and "platinum" models to emphasize their distinction,[3][4] although other times "gold" OA is used to refer to both paid and unpaid OA.[5]

In 2009, there were approximately 4,800 active open access journals, publishing around 190,000 articles.[6] As of October 2015, this had increased to over 10,000 open access journals listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals,[7] though this number has fallen to 9,500 in January 2017. A study of random journals from the citations indexes AHSCI, SCI and SSCI in 2013 came to the result that 88% of the journals were closed access and 12% were open access.[8]

Openness

There are several varieties of open access journals, including full open access journals with all content open access; hybrid open access journals where only some of the content is open access;[9] and delayed open access journals where the content is made open access after a delay (e.g. 12 or 24 months). Open access journals are one of the two general methods for providing open access. The other one (sometimes called the "green road to open access," as opposed to the "gold road" above) is self-archiving in a repository.[10] The publisher of an open access journal is known as an "open access publisher", and the process, "open access publishing".

History

Further information: Open access § History

Current problems and projects

Identifying open access journals

There are several major directories of open access journals, most notably Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).[11] Each has its special standards for what journals are included. A list of possibly predatory open access publishing also exists.

Articles in the major open access journals are included in the standard bibliographic databases for their subject, such as PubMed. Those established long enough to have an impact factor, and otherwise qualified, are in Web of Science and Scopus. DOAJ includes indexing for the individual articles in some but not all of the many journals it includes.

Lack of diversity

Open access does not mean there is access is equal to all. Some people have difficulties accessing the internet and, thus, the articles, but there is also inequality in terms of what is published and by whom.[12] The lack of diversity in academia and research, in reviewers and publishers, and in librarians (those who help others find sources) leads to many people's voices being unheard.[13]

Technology

In 1998, several universities founded the Public Knowledge Project to foster open access, and developed the open-source journal publishing system Open Journal Systems, among other scholarly software projects. As of 2010, it was being used by approximately 5,000 journals worldwide.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Suber, Peter. "Open Access Overview". Retrieved November 29, 2014.
  2. ^ Suber, Peter (2012). Open access. MIT Press. pp. 138–139. ISBN 9780262517638.
  3. ^ Machovec, George (2013). "An Interview with Jeffrey Beall on Open Access Publishing". The Charleston Advisor. 15: 50–50. doi:10.5260/chara.15.1.50.
  4. ^ Öchsner, A. (2013). "Publishing Companies, Publishing Fees, and Open Access Journals". Introduction to Scientific Publishing. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. p. 23. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-38646-6_4. ISBN 978-3-642-38645-9.
  5. ^ Harris, Siân (August 2012). "Moving towards an open access future: the role of academic libraries" (PDF). Sage Publications. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  6. ^ Björk, Bo-Christer (2011). "A Study of Innovative Features in Scholarly Open Access Journals". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 13 (4): e115. doi:10.2196/jmir.1802. ISSN 1438-8871.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  7. ^ "Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)". DOAJ. Retrieved October 20, 2015.
  8. ^ Fuchs, Christian; Marisol Sandoval (2013). "The diamond model of open access publishing: why policy makers, scholars, universities, libraries, labour unions and the publishing world need to take non-commercial, non-profit open access serious". tripleC. 11 (2). ISSN 1726-670X. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |lastauthoramp= ignored (|name-list-style= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ Suber, Peter (2012). Open access. MIT Press. pp. 140–141. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  10. ^ Eve, Martin (2014). Open access and the humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 9–10. ISBN 9781107484016. full text
  11. ^ Marchitelli, Andrea; Galimberti, Paola; Bollini, Andrea; Mitchell, Dominic (2017). "Helping journals to improve their publishing standards: a data analysis of DOAJ new criteria effects". JLIS.it. 8 (1): 1–21. doi:10.4403/jlis.it-12052. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
  12. ^ Hathcock, April (February 8, 2016). "Open But Not Equal: Open Scholarship for Social Justice". At The Intersection. Retrieved March 16, 2018.
  13. ^ Roh, Charlotte (February 1, 2016). "Library publishing and diversity values: Changing scholarly publishing through policy and scholarly communication education". College & Research Libraries News. 77 (2): 82–85. doi:10.5860/crln.77.2.9446.
  14. ^ Edgar, Brian D.; Willinsky, John (June 14, 2010). "A survey of scholarly journals using open journal systems". Scholarly and Research Communication. 1 (2). ISSN 1923-0702.

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