The Academic Economic and Societal Impacts of Open Access an Evidence-based Review

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doi: ten.12688/f1000research.8460.3. eCollection 2016.

The bookish, economical and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review

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  • DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.8460.3

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The bookish, economic and societal impacts of Open up Access: an evidence-based review

Jonathan P Tennant  et al. F1000Res. .

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Abstract

Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are multifaceted and complicated by disparate and ofttimes polarised viewpoints from engaged stakeholders. At the current stage, Open Access has become such a global issue that it is critical for all involved in scholarly publishing, including policymakers, publishers, enquiry funders, governments, learned societies, librarians, and academic communities, to be well-informed on the history, benefits, and pitfalls of Open Access. In spite of this, there is a general lack of consensus regarding the potential pros and cons of Open Access at multiple levels. This review aims to be a resource for current knowledge on the impacts of Open Access past synthesizing important research in iii major areas: academic, economical and societal. While at that place is clearly much telescopic for boosted research, several key trends are identified, including a broad citation advantage for researchers who publish openly, as well as additional benefits to the non-academic dissemination of their work. The economical impact of Open up Access is less well-understood, although it is clear that access to the inquiry literature is cardinal for innovative enterprises, and a range of governmental and non-governmental services. Furthermore, Open Access has the potential to relieve both publishers and research funders considerable amounts of financial resource, and tin can provide some economic benefits to traditionally subscription-based journals. The societal touch on of Open Access is strong, in detail for advancing citizen science initiatives, and leveling the playing field for researchers in developing countries. Open up Access supersedes all potential alternative modes of access to the scholarly literature through enabling unrestricted re-utilize, and long-term stability independent of financial constraints of traditional publishers that impede knowledge sharing. Notwithstanding, Open Access has the potential to become unsustainable for enquiry communities if high-cost options are allowed to proceed to prevail in a widely unregulated scholarly publishing marketplace. Open Access remains only ane of the multiple challenges that the scholarly publishing system is currently facing. All the same, information technology provides one foundation for increasing engagement with researchers regarding ethical standards of publishing and the broader implications of 'Open Research'.

Keywords: Altmetrics; Copyright; Incentive System; Open up Admission; Open up Commendation Advantage; Open Science, Text and Data Mining; Publishing.

Conflict of involvement statement

Competing interests: JPT currently blogs for the PLOS Paleo Community, and works for ScienceOpen. CHJH is a Middle for Open Science ambassador. DCJ and FW are members of the Open up Admission Working Grouping of EURODOC. PM is a Inquiry Data Alliance fellow member. LBC works for the University of Pittsburgh, which has an Open Access library publishing department. All views presented here are strictly personal.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Percentage increase in research articles in PubMed Primal, relative to 2000.

Since 2004, the growth charge per unit of OA articles is significantly higher than that of non-OA articles.

Figure 2.
Figure ii.. Studies that investigated the citation advantage grouped by their conclusion.

The majority concluded that at that place is a significant commendation advantage for Open Admission articles. Source: Data from The Open Access Citation Reward Service, SPARC Europe, accessed March 2016.

Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Cumulative number of Open Access policies adopted by multiple inquiry organisations, funder and enquiry organisation, sub-unit of measurement of inquiry organisation, funder, and enquiry arrangement.

Figures are given at the showtime of each year. Source: ROARMAP, accessed March 2016.

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This inquiry was partly funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Inquiry through a FRIA grant. PM acknowledges back up from the European Committee Horizon 2020 Programme under Grant Agreement 634107 (PHC32-2014) 'MULTIMOT'.

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