Spanish scholarly journals in WoS and Scopus: The impact of open access
The aim of this study was to determine the impact of open access on the publishing policies of Spanish scholarly journals indexed by WoS and Scopus. The study sample was obtained in October 2013. After discarding those that were not published in Spain and those that were inactive, we were left with...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:dnet:digitalcsic_::c08fd1e50751bd9fa3895fd06eeeb503 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/122817 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Open Access journals Spain Wos Scopus |
| Sumario: | The aim of this study was to determine the impact of open access on the publishing policies of Spanish scholarly journals indexed by WoS and Scopus. The study sample was obtained in October 2013. After discarding those that were not published in Spain and those that were inactive, we were left with a total of 406 journals (392 in Scopus and 171 in WOS, with an overlap of 157). A set of seven key indicators was established: age, subject area, language, publisher, portals, type of access and copyright. Most of the data were gathered by directly analyzing the websites of the journals and information from the Dulcinea directory was also used. Most of the journals (63% of the total) were first published after 1980. Universities and commercial publishers were the most significant publishers, accounting for 42% and 31% of all journals, respectively. Social sciences and health sciences were the most significant disciplines, accounting for 33% each. Of the journals, 60% were available free immediately after publication and 76% granted permission for self-archiving a version of the manuscript. By combining the two results, we estimated that 48% of all journals were oaccess (offering free access and permission for self-archiving). |
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