...Xianwen Wang; Yunxue Cui; Shenmeng Xu; Zhigang Hu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of Gold open access (OA) rates in different countries and disciplines, as well as explore the influencing factors. Design/methodology/approach In this study, employing the OA...

...Elizabeth Gadd Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider how the open access policy environment has developed since the Rights Metadata for Open Archiving Project’s call in 2003 for universities and academics to assert joint copyright ownership of scholarly works and investigate whether UK...

...-Bleda et al., 2014), social web sites (Skeels and Grudin, 2009 ; Thelwall and Kousha, 2014) and open access (OA) repositories (Björk et al., 2010 ; Kim, 2010). OA repositories are web sites that host academic publications and grant free public access to them (Suber, 2012...