Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries
The number of open access (OA) journals and their share of all scholarly journals are usually estimated based on indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ's coverage of OA journals from different regions of the world is, however, far from complete, particularly of journals...
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crwiley:10.1002/leap.1231 2023-12-03T10:24:50+01:00 Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries Björk, Bo‐Christer 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/leap.1231 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fleap.1231 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/leap.1231 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/leap.1231 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Learned Publishing volume 32, issue 3, page 227-236 ISSN 0953-1513 1741-4857 Communication Library and Information Sciences journal-article 2019 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1231 2023-11-09T13:43:29Z The number of open access (OA) journals and their share of all scholarly journals are usually estimated based on indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ's coverage of OA journals from different regions of the world is, however, far from complete, particularly of journals publishing in languages other than English. Using alternative data sources for identification and manual verification, 437 scholarly OA journals published in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) were identified, and some key characteristics were studied. Of these, only 184 were indexed in DOAJ. A vast majority of the journals was published by scholarly societies or universities. Social sciences and humanities dominated as topics, and few journals charge authors. National or university‐specific OJS portals have played a major role in enabling OA publishing. Around a third of the Nordic scholarly journals are currently OA. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library (via Crossref) Norway Learned Publishing 32 3 227 236 |
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The number of open access (OA) journals and their share of all scholarly journals are usually estimated based on indexing in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ's coverage of OA journals from different regions of the world is, however, far from complete, particularly of journals publishing in languages other than English. Using alternative data sources for identification and manual verification, 437 scholarly OA journals published in the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) were identified, and some key characteristics were studied. Of these, only 184 were indexed in DOAJ. A vast majority of the journals was published by scholarly societies or universities. Social sciences and humanities dominated as topics, and few journals charge authors. National or university‐specific OJS portals have played a major role in enabling OA publishing. Around a third of the Nordic scholarly journals are currently OA. |
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