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Open Research Skills Workshops - Open access publishing Workshop
<p><strong>This is the first workshop on Open Access Publishing in a series of workshops about Open Research Skills.</strong></p><p>This workshop covers:</p><p>Introduction to open access publishing</p><ul><li>Types of open access publishing</li><li>Examples of open access publishing journals and platforms</li><li>Benefits of open access publishing</li><li>Types of outputs that can be published</li></ul><p>Demonstration </p><ul><li>Demonstrating open publishing </li><li>Showing how a reproducible article is published and all the different outputs that are linked to it and how to do this</li></ul><p>Exercise</p><ul><li>Discuss and explore open publishing giving examples of different articles that show how open publishing works. We will pick those that show data and code deposited in repositories and also that use of protocol.io for publishing open methods</li></ul><p><strong>List of training workshops in Open Research Skills:</strong></p><ul><li><strong>24th February 2023 - Open access publishing</strong></li><li>24th March 2023 - Using repositories</li><li>21st April 2023 - GitHub basics</li><li>28th April 2023 - GitHub collaborative workflows</li><li>26th May 2023 - Standard vocabularies and ontologies</li><li>30th June 2023 - FAIR data</li></ul><p><strong>Project overview:</strong></p><p>Our project aims to upskill participants in open research skills to increase the quality and reusability of phytolith research and related disciplines such as archaeology, palaeosciences and plant sciences. We will run six hands-on training workshops on open access publishing and research outputs, using repositories, ontologies and standard vocabularies, implementation of FAIR Guidelines for phytolith research, and two workshops on Github basic and advanced skills. The materials from all workshops will be archived as self-study courses on our website (<a href="https://open-phytoliths.netlify.app/">https://open-phytoliths.netlify.app/</a>). We will also provide translation during workshops and training materials into multiple languages.</p>
Annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) and number of gold and hybrid open access articles in Web of Science indexed journals published by Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley 2015-2018
<p><strong>Dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) for 6,252 journals from 2015 to 2018. </strong>The dataset contains annual APCs for journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) and published by the oligopoly of academic publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley). It also includes an estimate of the total APCs paid by the academic community based on the number of gold and hybrid articles published between 2015 and 2018. The dataset was created using publication data from WoS, OA status from Unpaywall and annual APC prices from open datasets (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3841568">Matthias, 2020</a>; <a href="https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/84PNSG">Morrison, 2021</a>) and historical fees retrieved via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. </p> <p>Detailed methods and findings are reported in the following journal article</p> <p>Butler, L.-A., Matthias, L., Simard, M.-A., Mongeon, P., & Haustein, S. (2023). The Oligopoly's Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges. <em>Quantitative Science Studies</em>. Preprint: <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8322555">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8322555</a></p> <p><strong>Description of included files (v1):</strong></p> <p><em>APCs.csv: </em>contains the annual APCs for gold and hybrid OA journals indexed in Web of Science published by the oligopoly of academic publishers (Elsevier, Sage, Springer-Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley) between 2015 and 2018 including the total estimate of APCs paid per journal per year. It contains APC data for 18,846 journal-year-OA status combinations.</p> <p><em>countries.csv</em>: contains the fractionalized number of annual gold and hybrid OA articles by oligopoly publishers between 2015 and 2018 and the total estimate of fractionalized APCs paid per country per journal per year.</p> <p><em>oecd.csv</em>: contains the fractionalized number of annual gold and hybrid OA articles by oligopoly publishers between 2015 and 2018 and the total estimate of fractionalized APCs per discipline per journal per year.</p> <p><em>ReadMe.csv</em>: contains a description of the variables used in <em>APCs.csv</em>, <em>countries.csv</em> and <em>oecd.csv</em>.</p> <p> </p>
Prevalence of Creative Commons licenses in the Directory of Open Access Journals by discipline, author fees, number of journals per country and publisher
<p>An analysis on the prevalence of Creative Commons licenses in the Directory of Open Access Journals by discipline, author fees, country and publisher according to the number of journals.</p>
Monitoring open access publishing of NWO funded research (2015-2021) data set
<p>This is the dataset underlying the report "Monitoring open access publishing of NWO funded research" (<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7041897">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7041897</a>)</p> <p>The report presents statistics on the extent to which publications from the period 2015–2021 funded by NWO are available in Open Access. The analyses presented in this report also cover publications funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development ZonMw. This report builds on two earlier reports, published in <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/4446042">2020</a> and <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/5056043">2021</a>, covering publications from the period 2015–2018 and 2015-2020, respectively.</p>
Proportion of Open Access Papers Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals in Austria 2008-2013
<p>In 2014, Archambault et al. published a report which provided data about Open Access publishing for the years 2008-2013 for all countries of the European Research Area (ERA) as well as for Brazil, Canada, Japan and the USA. They differentiated not only by disciplines but also by three OA categories: Golden, Green and a residual category. For the dataset, the data for Austria and the whole area examined has been extracted and modified. The results show above-average rates for Austria in almost all disciplines.</p>
Drivers and Barriers for Open Access Publishing - WoS 2016 Dataset
<p>Answers to a survey on gold Open Access run from July to October 2016. The dataset contains 15,235 unique responses from Web of Science published authors. This survey is part of a PhD thesis from the University of Granada in Spain. More details about the study can be found in the full text document, also available in Zenodo.</p> <p>Following are listed the questions related to the WoS 2016 dataset. Please note that countries with less than 40 answers are listed as "Other" in order to preserve anonymity.</p> <p><strong>* 1. How many years have you been employed in research?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Fewer than 5 years</li> <li>5-14 years</li> <li>15-24 years</li> <li>25 years or longer</li> </ul> <p>Many of the questions that follow concern Open Access publishing. For the purposes of this survey, an article is Open Access if its final, peer-reviewed, version is published online by a journal and is free of charge to all users without restrictions on access or use.</p> <p><strong>* 2. Do any journals in your research field publish Open Access articles?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Yes</li> <li>No</li> <li>I do not know</li> </ul> <p><strong>* 3. Do you think your research field benefits, or would benefit from journals that publish Open Access articles?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Yes</li> <li>No</li> <li>I have no opinion</li> <li>I do not care</li> </ul> <p><strong>* 4. How many peer reviewed research articles (Open Access or not Open Access) have you published in the last five years?</strong></p> <ul> <li>1-5</li> <li>6-10</li> <li>11-20</li> <li>21-50</li> <li>More than 50</li> </ul> <p><strong>* 5. What factors are important to you when selecting a journal to publish in?</strong></p> <p><strong>[Each factor may be rated “Extremely important”, “Important”, “Less important” or “Irrelevant”. The factors are presented in random order.]</strong></p> <ul> <li>Importance of the journal for academic promotion, tenure or assessment</li> <li>Recommendation of the journal by my colleagues</li> <li>Positive experience with publisher/editor(s) of the journal</li> <li>The journal is an Open Access journal</li> <li>Relevance of the journal for my community</li> <li>The journal fits the policy of my organisation</li> <li>Prestige/perceived quality of the journal</li> <li>Likelihood of article acceptance in the journal</li> <li>Absence of journal publication fees (e.g. submission charges, page charges, colour charges)</li> <li>Copyright policy of the journal</li> <li>Journal Impact Factor</li> <li>Speed of publication of the journal</li> </ul> <p><strong>6. Who usually decides which journals your articles are submitted to? (Choose more than one answer if applicable)</strong></p> <ul> <li>The decision is my own</li> <li>A collective decision is made with my fellow authors</li> <li>I am advised where to publish by a senior colleague</li> <li>The organisation that finances my research advises me where to publish</li> <li>Other (please specify) [Text box follows]</li> </ul> <p><strong>7. Approximately how many Open Access articles have you published in the last five years?</strong></p> <ul> <li>0</li> <li>1-5</li> <li>6-10</li> <li>More than 10</li> <li>I do not know</li> </ul> <p>[If the answer is “0”, the survey jumps to Q10.]</p> <p><strong>* 8. What publication fee was charged for the last Open Access article you published?</strong></p> <ul> <li>No charge</li> <li>Up to €250 ($275)</li> <li>€251-€500 ($275-$550)</li> <li>€501-€1000 ($551-$1100)</li> <li>€1001-€3000 ($1101-$3300)</li> <li>More than €3000 ($3300)</li> <li>I do not know</li> </ul> <p>[If the answer is “No charge or I don’t know” the survey jumps to Q20. ]</p> <p><strong>* 9. How was this publication fee covered? (Choose more than one answer if applicable)</strong></p> <ul> <li>My research funding includes money for paying such fees</li> <li>I used part of my research funding not specifically intended for paying such fees</li> <li>My institution paid the fees</li> <li>I paid the costs myself</li> <li>Other (please specify) [Text box follows]</li> </ul> <p><strong>* 10. How easy is it to obtain funding if needed for Open Access publishing from your institution or the organisation mainly responsible for financing your research?</strong></p> <ul> <li>Easy</li> <li>Difficult</li> <li>I have not used these sources</li> </ul> <p><strong>* 11. Listed below are a series of statements, both positive and negative, concerning Open Access publishing. Please indicate how strongly you agree/disagree with each statement.</strong></p> <p>[Each statement may be rated “Strongly agree”, “Agree”, “Neither agree nor disagree”, “Disagree” or “Strongly disagree”. The statements are presented in random order.]</p> <ul> <li>Researchers should retain the rights to their published work and allow it to be used by others</li> <li>Open Access publishing undermines the system of peer review</li> <li>Open Access publishing leads to an increase in the publication of poor quality research</li> <li>If authors pay publication fees to make their articles Open Access, there will be less money available for research</li> <li>It is not beneficial for the general public to have access to published scientific and medical articles</li> <li>Open Access unfairly penalises research-intensive institutions with large publication output by making them pay high costs for publication</li> <li>Publicly-funded research should be made available to be read and used without access barrier</li> <li>Open Access publishing is more cost-effective than subscription-based publishing and so will benefit public investment in research</li> <li>Articles that are available by Open Access are likely to be read and cited more often than those not Open Access</li> </ul> <p>This study and its questionnaire are based on the SOAP Project (http://project-soap.eu). An article describing the highlights of the SOAP Survey is available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5260. The dataset of the SOAP survey is available at http://bit.ly/gSmm71. A manual describing the SOAP dataset is available at http://bit.ly/gI8nc.</p>
FIGURE 3 Bibliographic works containing vascular plant nomenclatural events published between 2019 and 2021 in Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability
FIGURE 3 Bibliographic works containing vascular plant nomenclatural events published between 2019 and 2021 and their use of open access (OA), coverage of top 80% of the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) dataset (journal abbreviations follow IPNI, asterisk indicates that the title is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals).
Books per Publisher: Data from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
<p>Quantitative information on publishers and published books from the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).</p>
Numbers of Articles, Books and Dissertation theses indexed in BASE and percentages of items published Open Access, under Creative Commons Licenses and under Open Licenses (2013-2017)
<p>A look at the data provided by the Open Access search engine BASE (http://base-search.net) shows that the Open Science compliance among dissertation theses stagnates. BASE knows three categories of accessibility: Open Access, Unknown, Non-Open Access. In the following tables and graphs, figures reported as "Open Access" have been categorised by BASE as Open Access. The tables and graphics show data from BASE (as of 06.03.2018) as follows:</p> <p>a) Indexed theses, books and journal articles</p> <p>b) Indexed theses, books and journal articles published by Open Access</p> <p>c) indexed theses, books and journal articles under Creative Commons licenses.</p> <p>d) indexed theses, books and journal articles, which are published under open licenses in the sense of the Open License, i. e. reflect terms of use of the Open Source.</p> <p> </p> <p>Although doctoral theses already had a high share of open access by 2013 (43%), by 2017 it had risen by only 5% (2017:48%). At the same time, the proportion of books published in open access rose by 14% (from 20% to 34%) and articles by 17% from 44% (2013) to 61% (2017). The same effect can be seen in the proportion of CC-licensed items: Their share rose by 4% (from 9% to 13%) for doctoral theses, by 9% for books (from 4% to 13%) and 8% for articles (from 10% to 18%) between 2013 and 2017. However, the share of openly licensed items is most pronounced: it did not increase for doctoral theses, but remained at 2% between 2013 and 2017; in the same period it increased by 5% (from 1% to 6%) for books, and by 5% (from 5% to 10%) for articles.</p>
Monitoring open access publishing of NWO funded research (data)
<p>This is the dataset underlying the report "Monitoring open access publishing of NWO funded research" (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5055609). </p> <p>The report presents statistics on the extent to which publications from the period 2015–2020 funded by NWO are available in Open Access . The analyses presented in this report also cover publications funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development ZonMw.</p> <p>This report builds on an <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4446042">earlier report</a> published in 2020 covering publications from the period 2015–2018.</p> <p> </p>
Mapping the Swiss Landscape of Diamond Open Access Journals. The PLATO Study on Scholar-Led Publishing. Dataset
<p><strong>Context</strong><br> From March to September 2022, the <a href="https://www.openscience.uzh.ch/en/openaccess/plato.html">«Platinum Open Access Funding» Project (PLATO)</a>, in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Data Science & Finance at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, undertook a bibliometric and empirical study of the Platinum/Diamond open access journal landscape in Switzerland. The PLATO project is an initiative of six Swiss universities – the University of Zurich, the University of Bern, the University of Geneva, the University of Neuchâtel, the Zurich University of the Arts and ETH Zurich –, dedicated to furthering community-led scholarly publishing in Switzerland. Diamond open access stands for a concept of equitable open access to and participation in scholarly publishing that is free for both authors and readers.</p> <p><strong>Presentation</strong><br> The main objective of the PLATO Study was to gain insight into the Platinum/Diamond open access publishing ecosystem in Switzerland through a mixed-method approach. The study consisted of three parts: First, bibliometric data were combined with inputs from Swiss open access publishers, institutional open access experts as well as information on journal websites to identify Swiss Diamond OA journals and their main characteristics. Second, seven semi-structured interviews with editors of select Diamond OA journals were conducted to generate a thorough understanding of their workflows, infrastructures, business models, challenges and opportunities. Third, based on the inputs from the interviews, three surveys were designed and sent to authors/reviewers, editors, and representatives of hosting and funding institutions of Swiss Diamond OA journals.</p> <p>The results of the study are published in the form of the following outputs:</p> <ul> <li>DOI Report: 10.5281/zenodo.7461728</li> <li>DOI Bibliometric List: <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/6992615#.YzK3ElJBw-Q">10.34914/olos:l2tys6tie5f63h35lqpqzzlx24</a></li> <li>DOI Data Set: 10.5281/zenodo.7461754</li> </ul> <p>The Data Set comprises the following files:</p> <ul> <li>Survey questionnaires</li> </ul> <p> SurveyQuestionnaire_Author.pdf<br> SurveyQuestionnaire_Editor.pdf<br> SurveyQuestionnaire_Publisher.pdf</p> <ul> <li>Data collected in three survey studies addressing journal editors, authors/reviewers as well as representatives of hosting and funding institutions:</li> </ul> <p> StudyData_Author.csv<br> StudyData_Editor.csv<br> StudyData_Publisher.csv</p> <ul> <li>Codebooks explaining the coding of the survey data files:</li> </ul> <p> StudyCodebook_Author.pdf<br> StudyCodebook_Editor.pdf<br> StudyCodebook_Publisher.pdf</p>
Open access publishers: the DOAJ Seal profile
<p>The DOAJ database was created in 2003 and includes almost 14,000 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all knowledge areas, published in 130 countries. There is a selective process to be followed to assure the quality of the titles. DOAJ is maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access (IS4OA) and its funding is derived from donations (40% from publishers and 60% from the public sector). DOAJ introduced a quality distinction, called the DOAJ Seal, to identify the most prominent journals. There are 1354 journals (around 10% of the total) that have been awarded the Seal.</p> <p>The search strategy involved using the Seal option, then ranking the journals to identify the biggest publishers, the number of journals and the number of articles. We have extracted the following indicators from DOAJ: publisher, title, ISSN, country, number of articles, knowledge area (according to the DOAJ classification), value of article processing charges in USD, time for publication in weeks, and year of indexing in DOAJ.</p>
Open Access Journal Publishing in the Agricultural Sciences
<p>A survey was conducted on scholarly research communication and the prospects of Open Access (OA) to the scholarly research dissemination in India by Open Knowledge Society (OKS). The India's National Agricultural Research System (NARS) has been choosen as a case study for exploring the possibility of OA in publishing agricultural research. With over 90 Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) institutes and 42 agricultural universities, established by respective states at State level across the country, the Indian NARS, is one of the largest NARS of the world. The ICAR is the apex organization of Indian NARS coordinating the agricultural research and education of the country. The agriculture research output mainly comes from publicly funded projects, and many of the research centers and universities publish research journals (peer-reviewed) and magazines even in local languages apart from English. Beside, there are many professional societies in agriculture and related sciences publishing peer reviewed journals. However, majority of these journals are traditional print journals and thus are less visible to the outside world. In the country, the researchers cannot have the access to the published literature without the subscription to those journals and many of the libraries do not subscribe all the journals. From India, only four journals in the area of agriculture and animal sciences found in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Hence, it is felt that there is a tremendous potential for the research output to be made available to World with the OKS intervention and with the help of Open Journal System (OJS) software. OKS would like to bring this point forward and hope it can bring some change and create awareness about OA publishing in Agricultural research in India. The survey revealed that there are more than 100 journals which are being published in India on agricultural research by the universities, research centers and professional societies. However these publishers are not aware of the goodness of online open access publications. There is a need for creating awareness among the authors and publishers to embrace the latest Internet technologies for publication of research journals by persuasion campaigns. OKS is keen to promote Open Access Publishing (OAP) using OJS by helping institutions to setup their journals and also build an indexing system for Indian agricultural journals. The result would definitely help Indian researchers and the end user farmer community and also help other developing countries to improve their knowledge.</p>
Open Access Publishing
<p><strong>Open Access Publishing. </strong>Prepared for the Diploma in Education Technology Management (A Distance Education Programme) of NAAM, Hyderabad. DETM 524 – Ethical Issues in Educational Technology (3+0 credits) by Sridhar Gutam (<a href="mailto:sridhar.gutam@icar.gov.in">sridhar.gutam@icar.gov.in</a>) 2021</p> <p><strong>Video</strong>: <a href="https://youtu.be/A9Gxa6Z_0D8">https://youtu.be/A9Gxa6Z_0D8</a></p> <p><strong>Slide</strong> <strong>Deck</strong>: <a href="https://bit.ly/OAPSG">https://bit.ly/OAPSG</a></p>
Data for "The APC-Barrier and its effect on stratification in open access publishing"
<p>Dataset to reproduce the analysis of the paper "The APC-Barrier and its effect on stratification in open access publishing". An earlier version of the manuscript with the title "The APC-Effect: Stratification in Open Access Publishing" is available at <a href="https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/w5szk">https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/w5szk</a>.</p> <p>Data is licensed under CC-BY-SA International (4.0), see the file LICENSE.</p> <p>A full description of the dataset is provided in the README.md.</p>
Fee-based Open Access publishing
<p>Statistics of fee-based Open Access publishing, 2005-2019</p>
'Opening the Future' - a new funding model for open-access monographs: introducing an innovative approach to publishing OA books through library membership funding
<p>We showcase a collaborative pilot case study that implements an innovative open access revenue model at the Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press, with assistance from the COPIM Project (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs). Building on existing library subscription models (e.g. OBP, punctum), this is a sustainable OA publishing model that gives library members access to a highly-regarded backlist, with the membership fees then used to make the frontlist openly accessible.<br> Given the current global library environment and existing budget pressures that have been exacerbated by Covid-19, a consortial model of funding promises a cost-effective solution for OA that means no single institution bears a disproportionate burden. This model, then, appeals to both those who wish to pay for subscription-access content (more traditional university acquisition models) and those who support OA initiatives. It brings many institutions together under one roof for an affordable route to open access books.<br> Library members get access to a selection of the publishers’ backlists, DRM free and with perpetual access after three years. In return, the membership revenue is used to make newly-published books openly accessible to anyone with an internet connection.<br> We believe Opening the Future is a trailblazer in scholarly comms, offering a viable and affordable route to OA change for small/medium university presses and which appeals to libraries of all sizes and budgets. We aim to open up research for the public good. The model that we are piloting reduces inequalities in access to open access publication by eradicating exclusionary book processing charges (BPCs).<br> As we progress with the pilot, we are writing up everything we’ve done to implement the model and will release this and any software as a free toolkit, so that other publishers can use it and also take the leap.</p>
Choosing Open Access Publishing: The Key Issues
<p>In this interactive webinar aimed at PhD students, post-docs and other early career researchers, <strong>Professor Patrick Dunleavy</strong> and <strong>Dr Frances Pinter </strong>introduced participants to Open Access Book Publishing, answered questions concerning the current publishing landscape, and gave insight into career-related issues for junior researchers to consider when choosing to publish open access. Although aimed specifically at junior researchers, this online webinar was open to all who wished to participate from across the CIVICA partner institutions.</p>
Echoes of a panacea in progress: Towards a systematic model for understanding and acting on the disorders of Open Access Publishing
<pre>Data used for the production of the article entitled "<strong>Echoes of a panacea in progress:</strong> <strong>Towards a systematic model for understanding and acting on the disorders of Open Access Publishing"</strong></pre>
Mutually dependent, yet highly asymmetric? Conversations about the relations and futures of Open Access academic publishing
<p>The research data in this dataset contains verbatim transcripts in PDF and ODT formats each (for reading and broader re-use purposes, respectively) as well as original audio recordings of two interviews. These semi-structured interviews form part of materials for a doctoral research project on recent developments in and possible implications of Open Access publishing models. Further information and full description of the research proposal are available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10760/29265</p>
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