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The open access scientific journal: an empirical study
Author(s) -
Hedlund Turid,
Gustafsson Tomas,
Björk BoChrister
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1087/095315104323159621
Subject(s) - open access journal , open source software , computer science , open source , library science , political science , software , public relations , law , medline , programming language , scopus
The open access (OA) model for journals is compared to the open source principle for computer software. Since the early 1990s nearly 1,000 OA scientific journals have emerged – mostly as voluntary community efforts, although recently some professionally operating publishers have used author charges or institutional membership. This study of OA journals without author charges shows that their impact is still relatively small, but awareness of it is increasing. The average number of research articles per year is lower than for major scientific journals but the publication times are shorter.