Two scholarly publishing cultures? Open access drives a divergence in European academic publishing practices
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| author | Kopitar, Leon Plohl, Nejc Verboten, Mojca Tancer Štiglic, Gregor Watson, Roger Korošak, Dean |
| author_facet | Kopitar, Leon Plohl, Nejc Verboten, Mojca Tancer Štiglic, Gregor Watson, Roger Korošak, Dean |
| contents | The current system of scholarly publishing is often criticized for being slow, expensive, and not transparent. The rise of open access publishing as part of open science tenets, promoting transparency and collaboration, together with calls for research assesment reforms are the results of these criticisms. The emergence of new open access publishers presents a unique opportunity to empirically test how universities and countries respond to shifts in the academic publishing landscape. These new actors challenge traditional publishing models, offering faster review times and broader accessibility, which could influence strategic publishing decisions.
Our findings reveal a clear division in European publishing practices, with countries clustering into two groups distinguished by the ratio of publications in new open access journals with accelerated review times versus legacy journals. This divide underscores a broader shift in academic culture, highlighting new open access publishing venues as a strategic factor influencing national and institutional publishing practices, with significant implications for research accessibility and collaboration across Europe. |
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| spellingShingle | Two scholarly publishing cultures? Open access drives a divergence in European academic publishing practices Kopitar, Leon Plohl, Nejc Verboten, Mojca Tancer Štiglic, Gregor Watson, Roger Korošak, Dean Digital Libraries Computers and Society Physics and Society The current system of scholarly publishing is often criticized for being slow, expensive, and not transparent. The rise of open access publishing as part of open science tenets, promoting transparency and collaboration, together with calls for research assesment reforms are the results of these criticisms. The emergence of new open access publishers presents a unique opportunity to empirically test how universities and countries respond to shifts in the academic publishing landscape. These new actors challenge traditional publishing models, offering faster review times and broader accessibility, which could influence strategic publishing decisions. Our findings reveal a clear division in European publishing practices, with countries clustering into two groups distinguished by the ratio of publications in new open access journals with accelerated review times versus legacy journals. This divide underscores a broader shift in academic culture, highlighting new open access publishing venues as a strategic factor influencing national and institutional publishing practices, with significant implications for research accessibility and collaboration across Europe. |
| title | Two scholarly publishing cultures? Open access drives a divergence in European academic publishing practices |
| topic | Digital Libraries Computers and Society Physics and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282 |