the motivations behind open access publishing judith schossboeck

Danube University Krems

The Motivation(s) Behind Open AccessPublishingCeDEMAsia 2016WorkshopNoella Edelmann& Judith Schossböck

Danube University Krems, CeDEM Asia 2016

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OverviewOpen Access JeDEM eJournalEvaluation

Project Outline: Motivational Factors in OA

Workshop and Discussion


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Open Access PublishingGreen and golden way of OASmecher’s (2008) Editorial “The Future of the Electronic Journal” in NeuroQuantology:

The character of the electronic academic journal is changing rapidly as new technologies, reader habits, and patterns of communication evolve and the Internet is increasingly adopted as a common medium. The obvious changes involve new methods of delivery and subscription, but the underlying structures of academic communication are also changing, presenting a host of new possibilities.


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JeDEM.org, eJournal for eDemocracy and Open Government – since 2009

Policy and Legislation Information TechnologyPolitical Science eDemocracyBusiness Information eSocietyBusiness Economy eGovernanceMedia Psychology eParticipationUsability eVoting

2 issues per year


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JeDEM Catgories Part I: Scientific Research Papers (research in

progress or completed) - anonymous peer review;

Part II: Case Studies - anonymous peer review; Part III: Project Descriptions (focus on

practitioners) – editorial review; Part IV: Literature Reviews; Q&A; Letters to the

Editors/Editorial; Expert Comments; Readers’ Page; Editorial Comment... – no review.


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JeDEMImpact Factor: 8,5 cites per year and about 4,6 cites per paper, Journal-h-index 13 Licenses and IndicesCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Austria (CC BY 3.0) License

Indexed with EBSCO, DOAJ, Google Scholar and the Public Knowledge Project metadata harvester.

Evaluation- DOAJ- QOAM


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JeDEM EvaluationDOAJ (since 02/2011):

JeDEM fulfills criteria for quality and transparency, openness, copyright and licensing issues

Missing some qualifications for the DOAJ seal (e.g. permanent identifiers, external repository)


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JeDEM Evaluation (II)QOAM (2016)Ranks 17,000 journals; a service that gathers information about OA journals to provide an overview about reliability, crowd-sourced

Assesses quality, trustworthiness and value for money

Base Score: 2,0/5 (transparency in terms of editorial information, peer-review, governance and workflow);

Valuation Score Card (by 5 reviewers): 4,3/5;


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QOAM Swot Matrix


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QOAM Swot Matrix (II)


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Project OutlineDeveloping a Methodology for Evaluating Users’ Perspective of the OA Journal JeDEM- Based on workshops at CeDEM16 and

CeDEM Asia 2016Survey in 2017

- JeDEM users- Population: people who publish OA


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RQs• Can we distinguish differences in

motivation for publishing in open access across disciplines or countries?

• What type of users are JeDEM users? How can users be classified according to their motivations? What are users’ opinions on different aspects of open access publishing, e.g. open peer review etc.?

• How can these results help other e-publishers?


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Motivational Factors in OA Park (2009): Attitudes; Social influence;

Perceived control /ability to use OA (from innovation and diffusions theory)

Taylor and Francis Open Access Survey (Frass, Cross, & Gardner, 2014): Attitudes; Values;

Moksness (2015): Attitudes; Norms; Intentions McKiernan et al (2016): Benefits („Incentives“)


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Motivations to PublishBorgman (1993): Dissemination of knowledge as widely as possible;

Coles (1993) Disseminate results; further career/funding; recognition;

Costello (2009): Demonstrate contribution to science; peer-recognition influences reputation; employment opportunities; promotion; research funding; personal satisfaction in completing a study; enthusiasm about communicating findings and opinions to society;


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Further activitiesQuestionnaire DevelopmentIntrinsic/extrinsic motivations?The nomenclature of „motivations“ makes it difficult to compare results to previous studies.

Develop own questionnaire or re-use an existing one?

Different practices within the field?Qualitative exploration


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Workshop1. Academia 2. Policy-makers 3. Practitioners

Why is it important to publish Open Access?

What motivates to publish Open Access? (green?) External vs. internal motivation factors? Myths and experiences?

Aim/Quality/Costs/Disciplines/Policy/Role


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DiscussionSummary of the discussionQuestions?


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~THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!~


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PractitionersAim ·Get the most out of your paper;Quality ·Journal ranking is important;

·An important issue is quality vs. being better known;

Disciplines ·There is a big difference between the research fields;

Policy ·The institution’s policy on publishing is crucial;

Role ·There is only little support for the students in terms of publishing (it is not normal that Professors publish with the students);

Other


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Policy-makers

·It lacks evidence that there is added value in developing OA for the benefit for the progress of knowledge in the scientific community;

·We don’t know if there is a correlation of the quality/numbers of OA publications and the improvement within the research field;

·There is no clue about the correlation between quantity and quality in the sense of developing a domain;·Impact factor doesn’t need to mean anything. Some papers are always cited, even though they are not good;·Higher education institutions have to deal with this issue;

The EU and EU-funded projects require OA publications. There is de facto a regulation for publications that doesn’t provide a lot of flexibility;

·There could be measures to increase readability of texts;


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Academics·Get the most out of your paper;·Reputation, ranking and impact factor are important issues;·Working for a journal is also associated with the repuation of a journal: review work is done for free;·Look at where the high-name researchers publish;·Repuation is the main issue, but you want your ideas to spread;·The established channels are better known;·Although non-OA journals are not better quality, they are simply better known;

·Free means lower quality;·This makes OA a market issue Google scholar plays a vital role;·There is no support for students;·OA is good for publishing when you are a no-name, a student, you have no money, no organisations/uni support;·Publish in high value journals/conferences: if costs are not an issue, why aim for OA?

·There is a difference between research fields;·Organisations tell you where to publish: in some case there may be restrictions, but not always;

·There is an institutional policy regarding where to publish;·Asia always follows the US model;·Differences depending on whether you are staff or a student;

·Tell people who want to cite/refer to you /your work that it can only be done if you publish in OA journals. Radical or destroy your career?

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