Dear readers of this list, Together with Timo Korkeamäki we have carried out a study looking at the prevalance of OA journals in different scientific disciplines. An article reporting the results has just been accepted for publishing in the OA journal College & Research Libraries, but since the article is due to be published only in November 2020 and the journal doesn’t publish e-versions ahead of the scheduled issues, we have uploaded the accepted version to the institutional repository of my university. The abstract is:
Adoption of the open access business model in scientific journal publishing – A cross-disciplinary study Scientific journal publishers have over the past twenty-five years rapidly converted to predominantly electronic dissemination, but the reader-pays business model continues to dominate the market. Open Access (OA) publishing, where the articles are freely readable on the net, has slowly increased its market share to near 20%, but has failed to fulfill the visions of rapid proliferation predicted by many early proponents. The growth of OA has also been very uneven across fields of science. We report market shares of open access in eighteen Scopus-indexed disciplines ranging from 27% (agriculture) to 7% (business). The differences become far more pronounced for journals published in the four countries, which dominate commercial scholarly publishing (US, UK, Germany and the Netherlands). We present contrasting developments within six academic disciplines. Availability of funding to pay publication charges, pressure from research funding agencies, and the diversity of discipline-specific research communication cultures arise as potential explanations for the observed differences. The green version can be accessed at https://haris.hanken.fi/portal/files/11186226/Bjo_rk_Korkeama_ki_2020_a_Green_version.pdf feel free to forward this message to potentially interested collegues. At the same time I wish all readers of this list a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Bo-Christer Björk Hanken School of Economics _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
