Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates
To encourage the sharing of research, various entities—including public and private funders, universities, and academic journals—have enacted open access (OA) mandates or data sharing policies. It is unclear, however, whether these OA mandates and policies increase the rate of OA publishing and data...
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| description | To encourage the sharing of research, various entities—including public and private funders, universities, and academic journals—have enacted open access (OA) mandates or data sharing policies. It is unclear, however, whether these OA mandates and policies increase the rate of OA publishing and data sharing within the research communities impacted by them. A team of librarians conducted a systematized review of the literature to answer this question. A comprehensive search of several scholarly databases and grey literature sources resulted in 4,689 unique citations. However, only five articles met the inclusion criteria and were deemed as having an acceptable risk of bias. This sample showed that although the majority of the mandates described in the literature were correlated with a subsequent increase in OA publishing or data sharing, the presence of various confounders and the differing methods of collecting and analyzing the data used by the studies’ authors made it impossible to establish a causative relationship. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2ea7606ba15d48ebb13af029b9424a532024-04-04T17:35:27ZengIowa State University Digital PressJournal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication2162-33092023-04-0111110.31274/jlsc.15444Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing RatesAmy Shannon0Elena Azadbakht1Tara Radniecki2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2571-3704Teresa Schultz3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4518-032XUniversity of Nevada, Reno University of Nevada, Reno To encourage the sharing of research, various entities—including public and private funders, universities, and academic journals—have enacted open access (OA) mandates or data sharing policies. It is unclear, however, whether these OA mandates and policies increase the rate of OA publishing and data sharing within the research communities impacted by them. A team of librarians conducted a systematized review of the literature to answer this question. A comprehensive search of several scholarly databases and grey literature sources resulted in 4,689 unique citations. However, only five articles met the inclusion criteria and were deemed as having an acceptable risk of bias. This sample showed that although the majority of the mandates described in the literature were correlated with a subsequent increase in OA publishing or data sharing, the presence of various confounders and the differing methods of collecting and analyzing the data used by the studies’ authors made it impossible to establish a causative relationship.https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/jlsc/article/id/15444/open access mandatessystematized reviewseffectivenessdata sharing policies |
| spellingShingle | Amy Shannon Elena Azadbakht Tara Radniecki Teresa Schultz Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication open access mandates systematized reviews effectiveness data sharing policies |
| title | Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates |
| title_full | Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates |
| title_fullStr | Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates |
| title_short | Do Open Access Mandates Work? A Systematized Review of the Literature on Open Access Publishing Rates |
| title_sort | do open access mandates work a systematized review of the literature on open access publishing rates |
| topic | open access mandates systematized reviews effectiveness data sharing policies |
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