The Costs of Open Access Publication: A Case Study at Catalan Universities
Authors : Ángel Borrego, Lluís Anglada This article explores the financial dynamics of open access (OA) publication in Catalan universities by combining four da...
Étiquette : open access
Open access publications drive few visits from Google Search results to institutional repositories
Authors : Enrique Orduña‑Malea, Cristina I. Font‑Julián Given the importance of Google Search in generating visits to institutional repositories (IR), a lack of...
Open access improves the dissemination of science: insights from Wikipedia
Authors : Puyu Yang, Ahad Shoaib, Robert West, Giovanni Colavizza Wikipedia is a well-known platform for disseminating knowledge, and scientific sources, such a...
When researchers pay to publish: Results from a survey on APCs in four countries
Authors : Osvaldo Gallardo, Matías Milia, André Luiz Appel, Grip-APC Team, François van Schalkwyk This paper provides an empirical overview of the impact and pr...
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...
Transformative agreements, publication venues and Open Access policies at the University of Milan
Authors : Laura Berni, Francesco Zucchini Starting from July 2020 at the University of Milan, one of the largest and most important Italian universities, the fi...
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...