... at the international level. The results have twofold value: they show that preprints, as an important component of open science, are not the focus of attention of Spanish open access journals; on the other hand, the paper prompts self-assessment for publishers to improve the clarity of instructions to authors...

...Jairo Stefano Dote Pardo Purpose This study systematically reviews the impact of open access (OA) on academic visibility, focusing on how different OA models affect citations, altmetrics, downloads and page views. It aims to clarify whether OA provides a consistent visibility advantage and under...

...Mikael Laakso; Philips Ayeni Purpose How open access (OA) should be supported has been a frequent point of debate during the last 3 decades as different pathways have been created and evolved. One particular point of contention has been the use of institutional contracts between customer...

... can be contacted at: lai.ma@ucd.ie 29 09 2024 17 01 2025 21 01 2025 It should be noted that, however, the motivation for open access initiatives in non-Western regions vary. SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online), one of the earliest open access platforms established...

... can be contacted at: natascha.chtena@sfu.ca 10 09 2024 11 12 2024 15 12 2024 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Preprints Preprint server Journals Overlay journals Open access Scholarly communication...

... interoperable technical tools, standards and systems (Thylstrup, 2018 , pp. 66–67) (see Figure 1). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2024 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Digital libraries Information science Standardisation Open access Online catalogues Interoperability...

...Dijana Šobota Purpose The paper seeks to introduce the “critical open access literacy” construct as a holistic approach to confront the challenges in open access (OA) as a dimension of scholarly communication. Design/methodology/approach The paper first introduces the concepts of information...

...Mikael Laakso Purpose Science policy and practice for open access (OA) books is a rapidly evolving area in the scholarly domain. However, there is much that remains unknown, including how many OA books there are and to what degree they are included in preservation coverage. The purpose...

... libraries preserve, share and cross-link cultural and scientific knowledge. With wildfires, drought, flooding and other extreme or slow-onset weather events presenting dangers, it is imperative that libraries take joint action toward facilitating sustainable and open access to relevant information...

...Foteini Valeonti; Melissa Terras; Andrew Hudson-Smith The authors contribute to the understudied field of research examining OpenGLAM from the end users’ perspective, outlining recommendations for end users, as well as for museums and galleries. Open access Digitized art images Museums...

... and history. The paper explores the ways in which these multiple overlapping communities intersect with the journal landscape and the implications for the adoption and use of new players in the scholarly communication system, particularly open-access mega-journals (OAMJs). OAMJs (e.g. PLOS ONE...

... attitudes, norms (injunctive and descriptive) and perceived behavioral control (PBC) (capacity and autonomy) influence the intention to publish open access (OA), and how personal innovativeness in information technology affects attitude and PBC. This study employs an integrated and extended theory...

.../approach – The Open Citation Corpus is a new open repository of scholarly citation data, made available under a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 public domain dedication and encoded as Open Linked Data using the SPAR Ontologies. Findings – The Open Citation Corpus presently provides open access (OA...

... presences in order to identify which web resources they use to provide access to their publications. Amalia Más-Bleda can be contacted at: amalia.mas@cchs.csic.es © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Open access Link analysis Outlinks Highly cited researchers The web has...

... to authors' peer‐reviewed accepted manuscripts in open access repositories. Design/methodology/approach The research was undertaken using a mixed‐method approach, involving the distribution of a survey by the 12 participating publishers to their authors in selected journal titles and a participatory...

...Jingfeng Xia Purpose This article aims to explore the geographic distribution of open access practices in the world from a diffusionist perspective. Design/methodology/approach The article applies a tempo‐spatial analysis to examine the diffusion movement of open access practices from the West...

... the publications of librarians and faculty in library and information science for their open access availability and citations. The findings may help OA advocates and administrators to make appropriate policy changes. It is generally believed that faculty scholars and librarians have different criteria...

... Open source Open access Knowledge commons Understanding Knowledge as a Commons. From Theory to Practice is an anthology consisting of 12 essays written by leading scholars and also activists from various corners of digital commons research and the commons movements. It arose from...