Open Access

Recent Articles About Open Access

Asai, S. (2024). Determinants of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals: elasticity to article processing charges. Scientometrics, 129(3), 1687–1696. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04934-3

Bakker, C., Langham-Putrow, A., & Riegelman, A. (2024). Impact of Transformative Agreements on Publication Patterns: An Analysis Based on Agreements from the ESAC Registry. International Journal of Librarianship, 8(4), 67–96. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol8.4.341

Batterbury, S. P. J., Pia, A. E., Wielander, G., & Loubere, N. (2024). Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing. Area. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12916

Clark, A. D., Myers, T. C., Steury, T. D., Krzton, A., Yanes, J., Barber, A., Barry, J., Barua, S., Eaton, K., Gosavi, D., Nance, R., Pervaiz, Z., Ugochukwu, C., Hartman, P., & Stevison, L. S. (2024). Does it pay to pay? A comparison of the benefits of open-access publishing across various sub-fields in biology. PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 12, e16824–e16824. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16824

Hadad, S. (2024). Librarians and Academic Libraries’ Role in Promoting Open Access: What Needs to Change? College & Research Libraries, 85(4), 464-. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.85.4.464

Hoogendoorn, C., & Redvers‐Mutton, G. (2024). Scaling up open access publishing through transformative agreements: Results from 2019 to 2022. Learned Publishing, 37(2), 125–129. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1601

Inefuku, H., Brundy, C., & Lair, S. (2024). Building Community: Supporting Minoritized Scholars through Library Publishing and Open and Equitable Revenue Models. College & Research Libraries, 85(1), 64-. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.85.1.64

Mi, J. (2024). Making Open Resources Discoverable: Collaborative Approaches for Enhanced Access. International Journal of Librarianship, 8(4), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.23974/ijol.2024.vol8.4.350

Okere, O. O., & Onyebinama, C. O. (2024). A Qualitative Analysis of Open-Access Publishing-Related Posts on Twitter. OPEN INFORMATION SCIENCE, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0004

Oparinde, K., Govender, V., Adedokun, T., Agbede, G. T., & Thungo, S. (2024). Key developments in global scholarly publishing: Negotiating a double‐edged sword. Learned Publishing, 37(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1604

Open science - embrace it before it’s too late. (2024). Nature, 626(7998), 233–233. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00322-2

Soyer, P., Bluemke, D. A., & Patlas, M. N. (2024). Open Access Publishing: Breaking Pandora’s Box. Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, 75(2), 220–221. https://doi.org/10.1177/08465371231219666

Additional Articles About Open Access (2023 and Earlier)

Barnsby, J., & Maistrovskaya, M. (2023). Improving Student Journal Visibility via the Directory of Open Access Journals. Current Issues in Education (Tempe, Ariz.), 24(2). https://doi.org/10.14507/cie.vol24iss2.2179

Boczar, J., & Schmidt, L. E. (2022). Analyzing faculty open access publishing: a citation analysis of select colleges at the university of south florida. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102493

Dengler, J. (2023). Priorities in journal selection for authors, reviewers, editors, librarians and science funders. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 4, 219–229. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.110296

Di Nunzio, G. M. (2023). Focused Issue on Digital Library Challenges to Support the Open Science Process. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 24(4), 185–189. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-023-00388-9

Eve, M. P., Pinter, F., Lair, S., &; Grady, T. (2022). Opening the future: a new model for funding open access monographs. The Serials Librarian, 82(1-4), 178–181. https://doi.org/10.1080/0361526X.2022.2040247

Fathallah, J., & Snyder, L. O. (2023). Sustainable Futures for OA Books: The Open Book Collective: Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) Project. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 26(1), 1-. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3372

Ferguson, J., Littman, R., Christensen, G., Paluck, E. L., Swanson, N., Wang, Z., Miguel, E., Birke, D., & Pezzuto, J.-H. (2023). Survey of open science practices and attitudes in the social sciences. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41111-1

Gentemann, C. (2023). Why 2023 is the US Federal Year of Open Science. Nature (London), 613(7943), 217–217. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00019-y

Ide, K., & Nakayama, J. (2023). Researchers support preprints and open access publishing, but with reservations: A questionnaire survey of MBSJ members. Genes to Cells : Devoted to Molecular & Cellular Mechanisms, 28(5), 333–337. https://doi.org/10.1111/gtc.13015

Kipnis, D. G., & Brush, D. A. (2023). An Investigation of Gold Open Access Publications of STEM Faculty at a Public University in the United States. Science & Technology Libraries, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2023.2175103

Komaritsa, V. N. (2022). Benefits of Using Open Access: Citation Analysis. Automatic Documentation and Mathematical Linguistics, 56(4), 197–202. https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105522040045

Lewis, D. W. (2023). Open Access: A Conversation with ChatGPT. The Journal of Electronic Publishing, 26(1), 83-. https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3891

Mahony, S. (2022). Toward openness and transparency to better facilitate knowledge creation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24652

McAllister, J., & Torres, J. (2022). Discovering open access trends in engineering: a bibliometric analysis of open access publications at a large research university. Science & Technology Libraries, 1-18, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0194262X.2022.2032535

Moskovkin, V. M., Saprykina, T. V., & Boichuk, I. V. (2022). Transformative agreements in the development of open access. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 34(3), 165–207. https://doi.org/10.1080/1941126X.2022.2099000

Pampel, H. (2022). From Library Budget to Information Budget: Fostering Transparency in the Transformation Towards Open Access. Insights, 35, 8. http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.576

Pandita, R., & Singh, S. (2022). A Study of Distribution and Growth of Open Access Research Journals Across the World. Publishing Research Quarterly, 38(1), 131–149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-022-09860-x

Roche, D. G., O'Dea, R. E., Kerr, K. A., Rytwinski, T., Schuster, R., Nguyen, V. M., Young, N., Bennett, J. R., & Cooke, S. J. (2022). Closing the knowledge-action gap in conservation with open science. Conservation Biology, 36(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13835

Stich, L., Spann, M., & Schmidt, K. M. (2022). Paying for open access. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 200, 273–286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2022.05.023

Tmava, A. M. (2023). Faculty Perceptions of Open Access Repositories: A Qualitative Analysis. The New Review of Academic Librarianship, 29(2), 123–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2022.2082991

Tmava, A. M., & Ryza, S. (2023). Faculty participation in open access repositories (OARs) based on their individual traits. Digital Library Perspectives, 39(3), 338–352. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLP-09-2022-0072

Triggle, C. R., MacDonald, R., Triggle, D. J., & Grierson, D. (2022). Requiem for impact factors and high publication charges. Accountability in Research, 29(3), 133–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2021.1909481

Turgut, Y. E., Aslan, A., & Denizalp, N. V. (2022). Academicians’ awareness, attitude, and use of open access during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 54(3), 350–362. https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006211016509

Waaijers, L. (2023). Towards a new relevance for research libraries. LIBER Quarterly, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.53377/lq.13657

Wheeler, J., Pham, N.-M., Arlitsch, K., & Shanks, J. D. (2022). Impact factions: Assessing the citation impact of different types of open access repositories. Scientometrics, 127(8), 4977–5003. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04467-7

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