Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers
AbstractOpen access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on i...
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AbstractOpen access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional publication data providing a comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed outputs across fields, publication types, and languages. Our data consists of 48,177 journal, conference, and book publications from 14 Finnish universities in 2016–2017, including information about OA status, as self-reported by researchers and validated by data-collection personnel through their Current Research Information System (CRIS). We investigate the WoS, Scopus, and DOI coverage, as well as the share of OA outputs between different fields, publication types, languages, OA mechanisms (gold, hybrid, and green), and OA information sources (DOAJ, Bielefeld list, and Sherpa/Romeo). We also estimate the role of the largest international commercial publishers compared to the not-for-profit Finnish national publishers of journals and books. We conclude that institutional data, integrated at national and international level, provides one of the building blocks of a large-scale data infrastructure needed for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of OA across countries, for example at the European level. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a55bb3d2c9024bfd9db64a86363bbb472022-12-21T19:26:27ZengThe MIT PressQuantitative Science Studies2641-33372020-01-01141396142810.1162/qss_a_00084Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchersJanne Pölönen0http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-0879Mikael Laakso1http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3951-7990Raf Guns2http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3129-0330Emanuel Kulczycki3http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6530-3609Gunnar Sivertsen4http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1020-3189Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Snellmaninkatu 13, 00170 Helsinki (Finland)Hanken School of Economics, Information Systems Science, Arkadiankatu 22, 00100, Helsinki (Finland)University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM), Middelheimlaan 1, 2020 Antwerp (Belgium)Adam Mickiewicz University, Scholarly Communication Research Group, Szamarzewskiego 89c, 60-568 Poznań (Poland)Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU), P.O. Box 2815,0608 Tøyen, Oslo (Norway) AbstractOpen access (OA) has mostly been studied by relying on publication data from selective international databases, notably Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus. The aim of our study is to show that it is possible to achieve a national estimate of the number and share of OA based on institutional publication data providing a comprehensive coverage of the peer-reviewed outputs across fields, publication types, and languages. Our data consists of 48,177 journal, conference, and book publications from 14 Finnish universities in 2016–2017, including information about OA status, as self-reported by researchers and validated by data-collection personnel through their Current Research Information System (CRIS). We investigate the WoS, Scopus, and DOI coverage, as well as the share of OA outputs between different fields, publication types, languages, OA mechanisms (gold, hybrid, and green), and OA information sources (DOAJ, Bielefeld list, and Sherpa/Romeo). We also estimate the role of the largest international commercial publishers compared to the not-for-profit Finnish national publishers of journals and books. We conclude that institutional data, integrated at national and international level, provides one of the building blocks of a large-scale data infrastructure needed for comprehensive assessment and monitoring of OA across countries, for example at the European level.https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/1/4/1396/96107/Open-access-at-the-national-level-A-comprehensive |
| spellingShingle | Janne Pölönen Mikael Laakso Raf Guns Emanuel Kulczycki Gunnar Sivertsen Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers Quantitative Science Studies |
| title | Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers |
| title_full | Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers |
| title_fullStr | Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers |
| title_short | Open access at the national level: A comprehensive analysis of publications by Finnish researchers |
| title_sort | open access at the national level a comprehensive analysis of publications by finnish researchers |
| url | https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/1/4/1396/96107/Open-access-at-the-national-level-A-comprehensive |
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