How are authors of journal articles paying Open Access fees or Article Processing Costs? And do their research organisations have an accurate overview of all these payments? A study carried out by Knowledge Exchange.
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Open access papers produce a 50% higher research impact than strictly paywalled papers. See more Archambault et al (2016).
Research funder can also publish. Just like Wellcome Trust does.
EU annouces: All scientific articles should be freely accessible by 2020.
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Gadd, E., Fry, J. & Creaser, C. The influence of journal publisher characteristics on open access policy trends. Scientometrics (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2716-8
Christine L. Ferguson (2017) Open Educational Resources and Institutional Repositories, Serials Review, 43:1, 34-38, DOI: 10.1080/00987913.2016.1274219
Valerie Spezi, Simon Wakeling, Stephen Pinfield, Claire Creaser, Jenny Fry, Peter Willett, (2017) "Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 73 Issue: 2, pp.263-283, https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2016-0082
Pinfield, S., Salter, J. and Bath, P. A. (2017), A “Gold-centric” implementation of open access: Hybrid journals, the “Total cost of publication,” and policy development in the UK and beyond. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68: 2248–2263. doi:10.1002/asi.23742
Piwowar H, Priem J, Larivière V, Alperin JP, Matthias L, Norlander B, Farley A, West J, Haustein S. (2017) The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ Preprints5:e3119v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3119v1
The researchers of the University of Jyväskylä are entitled to publish their articles as open access in SAGE, Taylor and Francis and Elsevier journals with a discounted APC rate. See the instructions.
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Are you planning to publish your article in an open access journal of BioMed Central or through the SpringerOpen service? The University Library will pay half of the publication fee. Read more.
The University of Jyväskylä promotes open science. The main objective is to advance open access to research results, research data as well as scientific methods. Read more.
