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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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10227/256168 2024-09-15T18:14:01+00:00 Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries Björk, Bo-Christer Information Systems Science, Helsinki 2019-08-13T12:29:01Z 10 369833 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10227/256168 eng eng Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 10.1002/leap.1231 Björk , B-C 2019 , ' Open access journal publishing in the Nordic countries ' , Learned Publishing , vol. 32 , no. 3 , pp. 227-236 . https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1231 10304352 Mendeley: 70ae22fd-6f33-3bb6-a3b8-8d35e1011fdf http://hdl.handle.net/10227/256168 85063080126 7e8ac1fa-460c-4142-a939-13f19ecd112e cc_by_nc info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess openAccess 113 Computer and information sciences KOTA2019 PREM2019_06 2 - Hybrid open access publication channel 1 - Self archived https://helda.helsinki.fi/dhanken/handle/10227/236205 0- Ingen av författarna har en utländsk affiliation 1- Publicerad utomlands 0- Ingen affiliation med ett företag Yes 2019 Article publishedVersion 2019 ftunivhelsihelda https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1231 2024-06-25T14:24:12Z 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. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository 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. Peer reviewed |
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