International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences
Background: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and practices surrounding that mode of publishing.Objectives: To provide an overview of publication practices and to compare them amo...
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| author | Olivier Pourret David William Hedding Daniel Enrique Ibarra Dasapta Erwin Irawan Haiyan Liu Jonathan Peter Tennant |
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| description | Background: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and practices surrounding that mode of publishing.Objectives: To provide an overview of publication practices and to compare them among six countries across the world to stimulate further debate and to raise awareness about OA to facilitate decision-making on further development of OA practices in earth sciences.Methods: The number of OA articles, their distribution among the six countries, and top ten journals publishing OA articles were identified using two databases, namely Scopus and the Web of Science, based mainly on the data for 2018.Results: In 2018, only 24%–31% of the total number of articles indexed by either of the databases were OA articles. Six of the top ten earth sciences journals that publish OA articles were fully OA journals and four were hybrid journals. Fully OA journals were mostly published by emerging publishers and their article processing charges ranged from $1000 to $2200.Conclusions: The rise in OA publishing has potential implications for researchers and tends to shift article-processing charges from organizations to individuals. Until the earth sciences community decides to move away from journal-based criteria to evaluate researchers, it is likely that such high costs will continue to maintain financial inequities within this research community, especially to the disadvantage of researchers from the least developed countries. However, earth scientists, by opting for legal self- archiving of their publications, could help to promote equitable and sustainable access to, and wider dissemination of, their work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7805f76791724e66b9989ceb06f047332023-12-02T09:40:22ZengPensoft PublishersEuropean Science Editing2518-33542021-06-01471710.3897/ese.2021.e6366363663International disparities in open access practices in the Earth SciencesOlivier Pourret0David William Hedding1Daniel Enrique Ibarra2Dasapta Erwin Irawan3Haiyan Liu4Jonathan Peter Tennant5UniLaSalleUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of CaliforniaFaculty of Earth Sciences and Technology, Institut Teknologi BandungEast China University of TechnologyIGDOREBackground: Open access (OA) implies free and unrestricted access to and re-use of research articles. Recently, OA publishing has seen a new wave of interest, debate, and practices surrounding that mode of publishing.Objectives: To provide an overview of publication practices and to compare them among six countries across the world to stimulate further debate and to raise awareness about OA to facilitate decision-making on further development of OA practices in earth sciences.Methods: The number of OA articles, their distribution among the six countries, and top ten journals publishing OA articles were identified using two databases, namely Scopus and the Web of Science, based mainly on the data for 2018.Results: In 2018, only 24%–31% of the total number of articles indexed by either of the databases were OA articles. Six of the top ten earth sciences journals that publish OA articles were fully OA journals and four were hybrid journals. Fully OA journals were mostly published by emerging publishers and their article processing charges ranged from $1000 to $2200.Conclusions: The rise in OA publishing has potential implications for researchers and tends to shift article-processing charges from organizations to individuals. Until the earth sciences community decides to move away from journal-based criteria to evaluate researchers, it is likely that such high costs will continue to maintain financial inequities within this research community, especially to the disadvantage of researchers from the least developed countries. However, earth scientists, by opting for legal self- archiving of their publications, could help to promote equitable and sustainable access to, and wider dissemination of, their work.https://ese.arphahub.com/article/63663/download/pdf/article processing chargesgeoscienceopen scien |
| spellingShingle | Olivier Pourret David William Hedding Daniel Enrique Ibarra Dasapta Erwin Irawan Haiyan Liu Jonathan Peter Tennant International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences European Science Editing article processing charges geoscience open scien |
| title | International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences |
| title_full | International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences |
| title_fullStr | International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences |
| title_full_unstemmed | International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences |
| title_short | International disparities in open access practices in the Earth Sciences |
| title_sort | international disparities in open access practices in the earth sciences |
| topic | article processing charges geoscience open scien |
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