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Some Issues on the Funding of the Scientific Publication in Open Access

Authors : Maria José Sá José Sá, Sandro Serpa

The academic/scientific publication in Open Access is already a current practice with several advantages, and the trend is that it will continue to be adopted worldwide by academics and researchers to disseminate the results of their work among the scientific community and the public at large.

At a time when Open Access is not only unavoidable but tends to become generalised as a form of scientific publication, this paper seeks to put forth, discuss and analyse some emerging issues, which are directly related to the financing of the publication of scientific research in Open Access, and which are directly linked to the consequences for academic freedom and the impact of the dissemination of the scientific publication, as current questions that shape the scientific publication that we will have and wish.

The results of this analysis allow concluding that, for this new way of publishing science to grow in a sustained way, it is necessary to ensure, among other aspects, the existence of independent scientific advisory boards; freedom of publication within certain boundaries; a sustainability strategy to plan for the operation of the platform; transparency in public scrutiny; and respect for the law.

URL : Some Issues on the Funding of the Scientific Publication in Open Access

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36941/ajis-2020-0063

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Adopting open access in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from a developing nation

Authors : Thu-Trang Vuong, Manh-Toan Ho, Minh-Hoang Nguyen, Thanh-Huyen T. Nguyen, Thanh-Dung Nguyen, Thi-Linh Nguyen, Anh-Phuong Luong, Quan-Hoang Vuong

Open Access (OA) publishing, with ambitious movements such as Plan S, is engendering radical changes among academic publishers. Emerging countries need to keep publishing as well as adopt open access to catch up with the changes.

Using exclusive data from the Social Sciences & Humanities Peer Awards (SSHPA) database, the study employed both descriptive statistics and a Bayesian linear regression model to examine the journals and publishers in which Vietnamese social scientists published during the period 2008–2019, and the potential of pursuing the OA movement in Vietnam.

We found an increasing diversification in the publishing sources of Vietnamese social science researchers with growth rates of 9.8% and 14.1% per annum in the number of publishers and journals, respectively. Given that the proportion of Gold OA articles had a fourfold increase over the examined period, it seems that the Vietnamese academic community is adopting OA.

Furthermore, Bayesian analysis results hint at positive associations of internal and external collaborative power (number of domestic and foreign authors, respectively) with the decision to publish in OA (βb_TotalVN_OpenAccess = 0.22; βb_TotalForeign_OpenAccess = 0.15).

The results and its implications suggest that Vietnamese policymakers and university director boards should facilitate as well as control the quality of the scientific publishing and the OA movement.

URL : Adopting open access in the social sciences and humanities: evidence from a developing nation

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04522

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Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly

Author : Samuel Moore

This article explores the recent turn within academic publishing towards ‘seamless access’, an approach to content provision that ensures users do not have to continually authenticate in order to access journal content.

Through a critical exploration of Get Full Text Research, a service developed collaboratively by five of the world’s largest academic publishers to provide such seamless access to academic research, the article shows how publishers are seeking to control the ways in which readers access publications in order to trace, control and ultimately monetise user interactions on their platforms.

Theorised as a process of individuation through infrastructure, the article reveals how publishers are attempting an ontological shift to position the individual, quantifiable researcher, rather than the published content, at the centre of the scholarly communication universe.

The implications of the shift towards individuation are revealed as part of a broader trend in scholarly communication infrastructure towards data extraction, mirroring a trend within digital capitalism more generally.

URL : Individuation through infrastructure: Get Full Text Research, data extraction and the academic publishing oligopoly

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/3pez-w041

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Concevoir un living book en sciences humaines et sociales : retour d’expérience

Auteurs/Authors : Martine Clouzot, Marie-José Gasse-Grandjean

Le living book, nouveau format venu des sciences de la vie, nous a permis de faire le point sur un sujet, de mettre en valeur un corpus d’images, une recherche avancée et une bibliographie. Ce format hybride, tourné vers le Web, fait une nouvelle place au producteur, à l’utilisateur et à la technique.

Dans un appareillage simple, sobre et rigoureux, il permet d’organiser une masse de documentation croissante et variée (textes, images, audio, sites Web). Il propose de nouvelles manières d’écrire (collaboration, textes courts, résumés) et de structurer les contenus.

Il favorise le travail en réseau et les contacts avec les bibliothèques et les musées, tout en attirant l’attention sur les formats, les licences et les droits. Il suggère des parcours de lecture personnalisés, touche des publics diversifiés. Nous souhaitons témoigner de cette expérimentation, car le living book est un dispositif éditorial et intellectuel hybride, collaboratif, créatif, agrégatif, accessible, ouvert, qui a modifié la production, la valorisation et diffusion de notre recherche.

URL : https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/394

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Harmoniser les pratiques éditoriales numériques des revues françaises d’archéologie

Auteurs/Authors : Stéphane Renault, Blandine Nouvel, Micaël Allainguillaume, Astrid Aschehoug, Nicolas Coquet, Marie-Adèle Turkovics

Cet article présente un projet d’harmonisation de la politique d’édition numérique de cinq revues d’archéologie qui s’inscrivent dans un contexte concernant une quarantaine de supports éditoriaux du domaine en France.

Mettant à profit des outils technologiques et documentaires disponibles pour l’édition, en archéologie et dans ses sciences connexes en particulier, ces revues ont décidé de faire évoluer leurs pratiques en adoptant une grammaire et un corpus de mots-clés communs et en expérimentant de nouveaux modèles interopérables de structuration et d’indexation de leurs contenus.

Elles sont ainsi imbriquées dans une chaîne de production scientifique qui mêle volontiers référencement des publications et des données. La visée est d’élargir et de faciliter l’accès à l’information scientifique.

URL : https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/483

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De l’interopérabilité à la réutilisabilité des éditions électroniques

Auteurs/Authors : Ioana Galleron, Fatiha Idmhand

Si la qualité et la pertinence de l’édition scientifique numérique ont fait l’objet de plusieurs réflexions, sa « réutilisabilité » a été, jusqu’à présent, moins étudiée et pensée.

Cet article analyse les raisons pour lesquelles la prise en compte de cet aspect est toutefois incontournable, en dépit de la tension dans laquelle il entre avec la poursuite d’objectifs propres à l’équipe éditoriale.

Trois modes d’identification du point d’équilibre entre les besoins du ou des réalisateurs de l’édition et ses utilisateurs futurs sont évoqués : l’enquête préliminaire, le travail à partir d’une conceptualisation abstraite de l’activité scientifique et un mélange des deux.

Enfin, l’article offre un exemple de réflexion sur la réutilisabilité à partir des « scholarly primitives » de John Unsworth.

URL : https://journals.openedition.org/revuehn/350

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Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications

Authors : Maria José Sá, Carlos Miguel Ferreira, Ana Isabel Santos, Sandro Serpa

At a time of great dynamism among publishers of scientific publications, with the inevitability of Open Access and the ease of publishing online at low cost, it is possible to find publications with different levels of scientific respectability.

In this context, the improvement of the quality of scholarly publications emerges as a critical element for publishers, authors and academic institutions, as well as for society in general.

This opinion piece discusses Open Access journals with different levels of quality, focusing on the following quality-promoting measures: blacklists, author’s preparation, and institutional prevention.

The analysis allows concluding that the open review will be one of the key elements in the process of clarification and promotion of the level of quality and consequent scientific respectability of each of the Journals, of the thousands currently existing, a number that is likely to increase.

URL : https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1250057