The impact of the open-access status on journal indices: a review of medical journals
Authors : Saif Aldeen AlRyalat, Mohammad Saleh, Mohammad Alaqraa, Alaa Alfukaha, Yara Alkayed, Maryann Abaza, Hadeel Abu Saa, Mohamed Alshamiry Background Over ...
Étiquette : open access publishing
Production and uptake of Open Access publications involving the private sector: the case of big pharma
Authors : Afredo Yegros-Yegros, Thed van Leeuwen Over the last years Open Access has been ranked very high on science policy agenda’s both internationally as we...
Is open access affordable? Why current models do not work and why we need internet‐era transformation of scholarly communications
Author : Toby Green Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In...
Merits and Limits: Applying open data to monitor open access publications in bibliometric databases
Authors : Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Stephan Stahlschmidt Identifying and monitoring Open Access (OA) publications might seem a trivial task while practical efforts ...
Few Open Access Journals are Plan S Compliant
Authors : Jan Erik Frantsvåg, Tormod Eismann Strømme Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll access journals open access, taking f...
The relationship between usage and citations in an open access mega journal
Authors : Barbara McGillivray, Mathias Astell How does usage of an article relate to the number of citations it accrues? Does the timeframe in which an article ...
Open access mythbusting: Testing two prevailing assumptions about the effects of open access adoption
Authors : Dan Pollock, Ann Michael This article looks at whether there is evidence to support two prevailing assumptions about open access (OA). These assumptio...