scholarly journals Reassessing Prospects for the Open Access Movement

2005 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 488-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles A. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Open Access ◽  
System Architecture ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Open access may well be a turning point for the scholarly communication system, but not on the basis claimed by its advocates. As opposed to the claim that open access means a less costly system, in reality it entails redundant expenditures and inflationary pressures. The true significance of open access, involving processes of institutional development of the system, has not entered into the public debate. Such processes are chiefly twofold: the adjustment of the open-access movement to the different needs and cultures of the various stakeholder groups, and the advent of a more complex system architecture that facilitates research productivity and scholarly innovation.

scholarly journals 2021 miles conrad award lecture: Heather Joseph

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Heather Joseph
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Initial Reaction ◽  
Structural Barriers ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The World ◽  
Pipe Dream ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

This paper is based upon the 2021 Miles Conrad Award Lecture that was given by Heather Joseph at the second annual NISO Plus conference held virtually from February 22–25, 2021. The lecture provided a brief look back at the emergence of the Open Access (OA) movement in scholarly communication beginning with the E-biomed proposal in 1999 that was shortly followed by the Budapest Declaration released on February 14, 2002, through how far it has come in almost two decades. The author notes that the initial reaction to OA was often just a quick dismissal of it as an idealistic pipe dream and as the idea began to grow in popularity, skepticism changed into hostility. OA was criticized as being too disruptive to the then-existent publishing paradigm. Yet, far from disappearing, the movement towards the open sharing of knowledge steadily advanced. Today conversations about “why” or “whether” to open up the scholarly communication system have evolved into conversations about how best to do it. The author notes that the Budapest Declaration underscored that the end goal of OA is to empower individuals and communities around the world with the ability to share their knowledge as well as to share in accessing the knowledge of others. She warns that members of the global scholarly communication community must look critically at who currently can participate in the production of knowledge, and whose voices are represented in the “global intellectual conversation” that need to be facilitated. Whose voices are still are left out because structural barriers – be they technical, financial, legal, cultural, or linguistic – prevent them from joining?

The future of open access and library publishing

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 225-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye Chadwell ◽  
Shan C. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Dramatic Shift ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide a vision for how academic libraries can assume a more central role in a future where open access (OA) publishing has become the predominant model for disseminating scholarly research articles. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyze existing trends related to OA policies and publishing, with an emphasis on the development of repositories managed by libraries to publish and disseminate articles. They speculate that these trends, coupled with emerging economic realities, will create an environment where libraries will assume a major role in the OA publishing environment. The authors provide some suggestions for how this major role might be funded. Findings – The trends and economic realities discussed will lead to new roles for academic librarians and will change the existing roles. Originality/value – This article provides insights for academic libraries and their institutions to consider a dramatic shift in the deployment of subscription dollars from a dysfunctional and largely closed scholarly communication system to one that provides open, unfettered access to research results.

scholarly journals E-publishing development and changes in the scholarly communication system

2007 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Nascimento Souto
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Scientific Publishing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Publishing Business

New and alternative scientific publishing business models is a reality driven mostly by the information and communication technologies, by the movements towards the recovery of control of the scientific communication activities by the academic community, and by the open access approaches. The hybrid business model, mixing open and toll-access is a reality and they will probably co-exist with respective trade-offs. This essay discusses the changes driven by the epublishing and the impacts on the scholarly communication system stakeholders' interrelationships (publishers-researchers, publishers-libraries and publishers-users interrelationships), and the changes on the scientific publishing business models, followed by a discussion of possible evolving business models. Whatever the model which evolves and dominates, a huge cultural change in authors' and institutions publishing practices will be necessary in order to make the open access happen and to consolidate the right business models for the traditional publishers. External changes such as policies, rewarding systems and institutions mandates should also happen in order to sustain the whole changing scenario.

scholarly journals Open+: Versioning Open Social Scholarship

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Alyssa Arbuckle
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Access System ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Advocates of the Open Access (OA) movement have been fighting for free and unfettered access to research output since the early 1990s. Open access is a crucial element of a fair, efficient scholarly communication system where all are able to find, interpret, and use the results of publicly-funded research. Universal open access is more possible now than ever before, thanks to networked technologies and the development of open scholarship policies. But what happens after access to research is provided? In this paper I argue that versioning scholarship across varying modes and formats would move scholarly communication from a straightforward open access system to a more engaging environment for multiple communities.

scholarly journals Copyright: the immoveable barrier that open access advocates underestimated

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Poynder
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Open Access Publishing ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Hearts And Minds ◽  
Scholarly Communication System ◽  
Personal Case

In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less costly, more democratic, and more effective scholarly communication system. To achieve their objectives they proposed two different ways of providing open access: green OA (self-archiving) and gold OA (open access publishing). However, while the OA movement has succeeded in persuading research institutions and funders of the merits of open access, it has failed to win the hearts and minds of most researchers. More importantly, it is not achieving its objectives. There are various reasons for this, but above all it is because OA advocates underestimated the extent to which copyright would subvert their cause. That is the argument I make in this book, and I include a personal case study that demonstrates the kind of problems copyright poses for open access. I also argue that in underestimating the extent to which copyright would be a barrier to their objectives, OA advocates have enabled legacy publishers to appropriate the movement for their own benefit, rather than for the benefit of the research community, and to pervert both the practice and the concept of open access.

scholarly journals La percepción de investigadores brasileños sobre el depósito de la producción científica en repositorios institucionales de acceso abierto

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Marilia Augusta de Freitas ◽  
Fernando César Lima Leite
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Semistructured Interview ◽  
Institutional Repositories ◽  
Acceso Abierto ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Este artículo tiene como objetivo presentar y discutir los resultados de la investigación sobre la percepción de los investigadores acerca del depósito de la producción científica en repositorios institucionales de acceso abierto. Los resultados presentados son parte de los resultados de una investigación mayor que tuvo como objetivo proponer las directrices para el depósito de la producción científica en repositorios institucionales de acceso abierto con base en la percepción de los distintos actores que participan del sistema de comunicación científica. Desde el punto de vista metodológico el estudio tiene un propósito descriptivo y un abordaje metodológico cualitativo, dado que la propuesta de las directrices tuvo por base las percepciones de los actores involucrados. Como método de investigación fue adoptado el levantamiento de información, el cual, por su parte, fue operacionalizado con la adopción de la técnica de la entrevista semiestructurada. Entre las conclusiones destacan que las principales motivaciones para depositar la producción científica en repositorios institucionales son diversificadas en función de las áreas del conocimiento. Entre ellas están la conciencia de los beneficios del acceso abierto, la obligatoriedad del depósito, los estímulos institucionales y la vinculación a las disciplinas culturalmente propensas al depósito. Palabras clave: sistema de comunicación científica, repositorios institucionales, acceso abierto.The Perception of Brazilians Researchers on the Deposit of Scientific Production in Open Access Institutional RepositoriesAbstractThis work aims to present and discuss results of research about the perception of researchers regarding the deposit of scientific production in open access institutional repositories. The results presented compose results of a larger research whose purpose was to propose guidelines for the deposit of scientific production in open access institutional repositories based on the perception of the different actors that participate in the scholarly communication system. From the methodological point of view, the study has a descriptive purpose and a qualitative methodological approach, since the proposal of the guidelines was based on the perceptions of the actors involved. As a research method, the survey was adopted, which was operationalized with the adoption of the semistructured interview technique. Among the conclusions, the main motivations for depositing scientific production in institutional repositories are diversified according to the areas of knowledge. Among them are the awareness of the benefits of open access, compulsory deposit, institutional incentives and the link to culturally deposit-prone disciplines.Keywords: Scholarly communication system, institutional repositories, open access.

Emerging Issues in Open Access Initiatives in Africa

2015 ◽  
pp. 1873-1883
Author(s):  
M. T. Bashorun ◽  
Iro Sani Lawal ◽  
Isah Abdulmumin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Communication System ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
The World ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Scholarly Communication System

Access to scholarly publications in the 21st century has been greatly enhanced with the emergence of open access initiatives the world over. This new trend has contributed immensely to the development of a global scholarly communication system. This chapter investigates various facets of the Open Access (OA) movement and its growth in Africa. It highlights different roles played by organizations, libraries, publishers, and researchers in the development of OA. Furthermore, the chapter discusses the benefits and challenges of OA to various stakeholders. It concludes with recommendations on how to improve open access in Africa.

Open Educational Resources and Scientific Literature

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-35
Author(s):  
G. Prince
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Open Educational Resources ◽  
Educational Resources ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scholarly Communications

This chapter is intended to present briefly the open educational resources initiatives in India especially related to growth of scientific literature. Scholarly communication can be defined as the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use. An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make it possible as an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals without payment, for the sake of inquiry and knowledge. The new technology is the internet and web 2.0 tools. Thus, the scholarly communications are available in the public domain in the open access platform. The system includes both formal means of communication, such as publication in peer-reviewed journals, and informal channels in electronic media of open access. Also presented is an overview of all available open source resources in Indian context.

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