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...
Étiquette : gold open access
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...
Is open access disrupting the journal business? A perspective from comparing full adopters, partial adopters, and non-adopters
Author : Xijie Zhang Two decades after the inception of open access publishing (OA), its impact has remained a focal point in academic discourse. This study ado...
An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers
Authors : Leigh-Ann Butler, Madelaine Hare, Nina Schönfelder, Eric Schares, Juan Pablo Alperin, Stefanie Haustein This paper introduces a dataset of article pro...