Funders open access mandates: uneven uptake and challenging models
Authors : Lucía Céspedes, Madelaine Hare, Simon van Bellen, Philippe Mongeon, Vincent Larivière Over the last two decades, research funders have adopted Open Ac...
Étiquette : gold open access
APC waivers and Ukraine’s publishing output in Gold OA journals: Evidence from five commercial publishers
Author : Serhii Nazarovets This study examines the effect of article processing charge (APC) waivers on the participation of Ukrainian researchers in fully Gold...
An APC Trap? Privilege and the Perception of Reasonableness in Open Access Publishing
Authors : Melissa H. Cantrell, Jennifer A. Mezick, Matthew Estill, Rachel Caldwell & Lauren B. Collister Introduction: This article investigates funding sou...
Does open access foster interdisciplinary citations? Decomposing open access citation advantage
Authors : Kai Nishikawa, Akiyoshi Murakami The existence of an open access (OA) citation advantage—that is, whether OA increases citations—has been a topic of i...
Open access, open infrastructures, and their funding: Learning from histories to more effectively enhance diamond OA ecologies for books
Authors : Kira Hopkins, Kevin Sanders The decade since the “Bottlenecks in the Open Access System” special issue of JLSC in 2014 has been an expansive one for ...
Academic Quality or Commercial Concern? The Role of APCs in Open-Access Communication Studies Journals
Author : Burak Ili Despite the positive effects of the open access (OA) movement on academic publishing, commercial publishers’ profit-driven policies con...
Field-specific gold open access dynamics in the Chinese mainland: Overviews, disparities, and strategic insights
Authors : Xinyi Chen, Zhiqiang Liu Gold Open Access (OA) journals are crucial for scholarly communication, highlighting the need for a thorough evaluation of th...