Hi everyone, Just a heads-up that a study concerning the development of hybrid OA I conducted together with Bo-Christer Björk has been published today, could be of interest to some of you. Please find the link to the article (published as hybrid OA) as well as the abstract below. While the study does not cover the state of the art of hybrid OA uptake as it currently exists in 2016, much due to the very time-consuming experimental methodology, it can at least function as a testament to why better indexing of hybrid OA content would be beneficial.
—- Laakso, M., & Björk, B.-C. Hybrid open access—A longitudinal study. Journal of Informetrics (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.08.002 ABSTRACT This study estimates the development of hybrid open access (OA), i.e. articles published openly on the web within subscription-access journals. Included in the study are the five largest publishers of scholarly journals; Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell, Taylor & Francis, and Sage. Since no central indexing or standardized metadata exists for identifying hybrid OA an explorative bottom-up methodological approach was developed. The individual search and filtering features of each publisher website and a-priori availability of data were leveraged to the extent possible. The results indicate a strong sustained growth in the volume of articles published as hybrid OA during 2007 (666 articles) to 2013 (13 994 articles). The share of hybrid articles was at 3.8% of total published articles for the period of 2011–2013 for journals with at least one identified hybrid OA article. Journals within the Scopus discipline categorization of Health and Life Sciences, in particular the field of Medicine, were found to be among the most frequent publishers of hybrid OA content. The study surfaces the many methodological challenges involved in obtaining metrics regarding hybrid OA, a growing business for journal publishers as science policy pressures for reduced access barriers to research publications. —- Best regards, Mikael Laakso Assistant Professor Information Systems Science mikael.laa...@hanken.fi Tel: +358 (0)50 9100 864 Hanken Svenska handelshögskolan Hanken School of Economics Perhogatan 6b PO Box 479, 00101 HELSINKI, FINLAND _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
