Úton a nyílt hozzáférés felé: az open access publikálás támogatása a skandináv országokban = Towards open access: supporting open access publishing in Scandinavian countries

The greatest challenge to facilitate open access publishing is to change the current habits of researchers. Although the development of appropriate regulation and the involvement of researchers is indispensable, an efficient, economical support system with the help of appropriate librarians is needed which assists the researchers’ everyday work. The paper shows how does this support system work in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland

Spanish scholarly journals in WoS and Scopus: The impact of open access

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of open access on the publishing policies of Spanish scholarly journals indexed by WoS and Scopus. The study sample was obtained in October 2013. After discarding those that were not published in Spain and those that were inactive, we were left with a total of 406 journals (392 in Scopus and 171 in WOS, with an overlap of 157). A set of seven key indicators was established: age, subject area, language, publisher, portals, type of access and copyright. Most of the data were gathered by directly analyzing the websites of the journals and information from the Dulcinea directory was also used. Most of the journals (63% of the total) were first published after 1980. Universities and commercial publishers were the most significant publishers, accounting for 42% and 31% of all journals, respectively. Social sciences and health sciences were the most significant disciplines, accounting for 33% each. Of the journals, 60% were available free immediately after publication and 76% granted permission for self-archiving a version of the manuscript. By combining the two results, we estimated that 48% of all journals were oaccess (offering free access and permission for self-archiving).Ministerio de Economía e Innovación. Proyectos CSO2011-29503-C02-01 y CSO2011-29503-C02-02Peer reviewe

Spanish scholarly journals in WoS and Scopus: the impact of open access

The aim of this study was to determine the impact of open access on the publishing policies of Spanish scholarly journals indexed by WoS and Scopus. The study sample was obtained in October 2013. After discarding those that were not published in Spain and those that were inactive, we were left with a total of 406 journals (392 in Scopus and 171 in WOS, with an overlap of 157). A set of seven key indicators was established: age, subject area, language, publisher, portals, type of access and copyright. Most of the data were gathered by directly analyzing the websites of the journals and information from the Dulcinea directory was also used. Most of the journals (63% of the total) were first published after 1980. Universities and commercial publishers were the most significant publishers, accounting for 42% and 31% of all journals, respectively. Social sciences and health sciences were the most significant disciplines, accounting for 33% each. Of the journals, 60% were available free immediately after publication and 76% granted permission for self-archiving a version of the manuscript. By combining the two results, we estimated that 48% of all journals were open access (offering free access and permission for self-archiving)

Conceptual Framework of Components and Indicators of the Scholarly Publication System: Systematic Review

This paper provides a systematic review of scientific resources to determine the components and indicators of the scholarly publication system. The research community includes 1070 documents from Scopus and the Web of Science databases. Another researcher was used to determine the degree of accuracy, reliability, and quality of the final documents, and the agreement between the two researchers was calculated with the Kappa coefficient. Finally, 331 documents were studied in full text. Possible components and indicators were identified from these documents, and their information was entered into Excel software. Based on the frequency and similarity of the contents, the conceptual framework of the scholarly publication system was designed. Research findings show that the main components of this system include infrastructure, technology, management, access, evaluation, support, language, communication, control, education, and ethics. Each of the components also has specific indicators and sub-indicators. Some issues, such as rights, laws, regulations, standards, repositories, scientific players, and centers, are not mentioned among the components because these concepts are integrated into other parts

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Research Information Systems in the Nordic Countries - Infrastructure, Concepts, and Organization

Used on the Copyright licens Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/se/deed.en_GBA report about Research Information Systems in the Nordic Countries, Infrastructure, concepts and organizationThis report is commissioned by the Nordbib programme, and is based on a web survey of the current status of CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and IR (Institutional Repositories) in the Nordic countries. The survey has been conducted to investigate how Nordic higher education institutions collect and present their research output. Do they use Institutional Repositories and/or Current Research Information Systems, are these systems separate or integrated, what software is used, and how are they staffed and financed? An important part of the survey was to analyse the perceived needs for national and Nordic coordination and support regarding such specific issues as rights management, central search services, educational and promotional materials etc. The survey results are presented against international developments in Open Access, both historical and current. The main purpose of the survey is to help Nordbib gather relevant information for promoting greater visibility to Nordic research and offer a background for creating a joint Nordic approach to further developments in Open Access. A presentation of the survey project was given at the Nordbib Workshop on ”Research Visibility – managing quality for better evaluation” 27-28 October, 2008. We would like to thank the members of the Nordbib workshop group for valuable viewpoints regarding the final formulations in the questionnaire. We also wish to thank all our contacts in the Nordic countries for their invaluable help in identifying respondents and providing us with email addresses, and other valuable advice and support

Scholarly publishing and open access in the Nordic Countries

This study examines aspects of scholarly journal publishing in the Nordic countries. On average half of Nordic journals publish online. In most Nordic countries, commercial publishers predominate; however, in Finland the majority are society publishers. The number of open access journals is low, in line with international figures. There is concern to maintain local languages in journal publishing. A majority of the journals publishing in local languages are within social science, humanities, and arts; the STM sector publishes in English. English-language publications are favoured in research assessments, international recognition, and impact, while the visibility of local-language scholarly journals in international databases is low. The Nordbib program supports Nordic scholarly journals and fosters co-operation with publishing companies and learned societies over migration to e-publishing; it also supports open access. The article discusses future challenges for journal publishing, pointing out the problems of small journal publishers and the need for co-operation between stakeholders