Contents: Introduction Highlights Research goal and method Who was surveyed The distribution of gold open access among authors How authors make their publishing decisions? Access problems Licensing Self archiving Article processing charges Funding for open access books Less wealthy countries publish more in open access […]
According to the Key Challenges of Research Communication – De Gruyter Open Survey, 5% of all academic book authors published one or more book in the so called “author pays” open access model. Among all actual and potential book authors, 15.1% claimed to have access […]
To publish a book in gold open access, in order to make it open at the publisher’s website, an author has to choose an open access book publisher, which are currently not so numerous. When it comes to choosing a publisher, book authors, similar to […]
Green open access to academic books seems to be a marginal phenomenon. Among respondents of the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Survey only 17 authors archived an open access copy of a book that was originally published in toll access, which is […]
In the case of books, authors from the global peripheral countries are more likely to choose gold open access as a way to publish their research results. While in the global core countries only 21.5% of book authors have at least one gold open access […]
We, the open access promoters, have been focused primarily on academic papers. As a result, we still have a lot of work in promoting open access to other forms of academic output. As I concluded in my previous posts, according to the results of the […]
In my recent post I have discussed open access to academic book chapters. However, I was focused on one of its form only, which is organized by publishers. And similar to the case of academic articles, and also in the case of book chapters, other […]
After some time spent on anonymizing data and analyzing their integrity I can now publish a whole dataset from the Key Challenges of Research Communication – De Gruyter Open Author Survey. The main goal of the research was to examine the attitudes of academic authors […]
The results of the Key Challenges of Research Communication De Gruyter Open Author Survey suggest that gold open access to academic book chapters is far from being a marginal phenomenon, despite its absence in the debate on open access. Similarly to the case of academic […]
Green and gold open access should be discussed as separate phenomenons, with a different set of factors that may foster or inhibit their growth. While green open access is driven mostly by the ethical beliefs of researchers it also requires knowledge that a lot of […]