... 2025 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Academic search engine Metadata quality Third-party databases Scholarly bibliographic databases Open access Completeness degree The scholarly publishing system is shaped...

..., we investigate patterns of knowledge production, investigating gender, levels of institutional resourcing and contributions by world region, as well as Open Access availability of research. Findings Research related to the three SDGs is primarily published by researchers from institutions...

... The authors found that respondents from the Global South were more likely to agree to adhere to policies and to emphasise that mandates could change publishing behaviour towards open access. They were also more likely to agree posting preprints has a positive impact. Respondents from the Global South...

... 2022 17 02 2023 29 03 2023 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Twitter Open access Opinion Societal impact To achieve its ideals, open access (OA) needs the support and involvement of different stakeholders...

...Zahid Ashraf Wani; Tariq Shafi Shah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between the access mode of research articles [Open Access (OA) and Toll-Access (TA)] and their subsequent citation counts in Biological and Physical Sciences in three Impact factor zones (High...

... unfunded research. Moreover, the open access (OA) modalities gold and hybrid have the greatest advantages in citation and social attention due to funding. Research limitations/implications Specific topics were studied in a specific period. Studying other topics and/or different time periods might...

... only Higher education institutions Open access Regulations FAIR principles Information policy Theses and dissertations (TDs) represent the primary outlet for graduate student scholarship at institutions of higher education across the globe and play a key role in establishing...

...Mohammad Nazim; Mohammad Ashar Purpose The present study aims to examine the use of open access (OA) scholarly communication in India and investigate the factors affecting the adoption and use of OA scholarly communication among researchers. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted...

... health concern (Chirico et al., 2020). © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Acceptance and rejection Biomedicine Correction of the literature Peer review Open access Preprints Retractions SARS-CoV-2 virus Withdrawals...

...Sumeer Gul; Shazia Bashir; Shabir Ahmad Ganaie Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the status of institutional repositories (IRs) in the South Asian region. The various characteristic features of IRs are studied. Design/methodology/approach Open directory of open access...

...Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva; Kwabena Osei Kuffour Adjei; Christopher M. Owusu-Ansah; Radhamany Sooryamoorthy; Mulubrhan Balehegn Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the status of the open access (OA) movement on the African continent, and if there is any financial or moral exploitation...

...Bo-Christer Björk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at two particular aspects of open access megajournals, a new type of scholarly journals. Such journals only review for scientific soundness and leave the judgment of scientific impact to the readers. The two leading journals currently...

...Ángel Borrego Purpose Open-access mega-journals (OAMJs), which apply a peer-review policy based solely on scientific soundness, elicit opposing views. Sceptical authors believe that OAMJs are simply an easy target to publish uninteresting papers that would not be accepted in more selective...

... © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Bibliometrics Open access Altmetrics Webometrics Open bibliometrics Figure 1 Number of papers indexed by the Web of Science with bibliometric*/altmetric*/webometric* in the Topic Field...

...Bo-Christer Björk Purpose The purpose of this paper is to look at third party journal portals, which facilitate the low-cost publishing of open access journals. Portals have become very important enablers for converting journals published by scholarly societies and universities to open access...

...Jayan Chirayath Kurian Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the type and implications of user-generated content posted by users of an open access institutional repository (DSpace) on Facebook. Design/methodology/approach – The identified user-generated content was organised...

...Professor G.E. Gorman and Professor Jennifer Rowley; Martin Paul Eve Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the current state of debates surrounding Open Access (OA) in non-STEM disciplines. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses a selective literature...

...Professor G.E. Gorman and Professor Jennifer Rowley; Xiang Ren Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand individual academics’ perception, attitudes and participation in Open Access Publishing and open scholarship and revisit some principles and designs of openness in academic...

...Professor G.E. Gorman and Professor Jennifer Rowley; Rob Kitchin; Sandra Collins; Dermot Frost Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine funding models for Open Access (OA) digital data repositories whose costs are not wholly core funded. Whilst such repositories are free to access...

...Professor G.E. Gorman and Professor Jennifer Rowley; Stephen Pinfield Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of one of the most important and controversial areas of scholarly communication: Open Access publishing and dissemination of research outputs. It identifies...