Title |
Anatomy of open access publishing: a study of longitudinal development and internal structure
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Published in |
BMC Medicine, October 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1741-7015-10-124 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mikael Laakso, Bo-Christer Björk |
Abstract |
Open access (OA) is a revolutionary way of providing access to the scholarly journal literature made possible by the Internet. The primary aim of this study was to measure the volume of scientific articles published in full immediate OA journals from 2000 to 2011, while observing longitudinal internal shifts in the structure of OA publishing concerning revenue models, publisher types and relative distribution among scientific disciplines. The secondary aim was to measure the share of OA articles of all journal articles, including articles made OA by publishers with a delay and individual author-paid OA articles in subscription journals (hybrid OA), as these subsets of OA publishing have mostly been ignored in previous studies. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United Kingdom | 42 | 16% |
Spain | 30 | 11% |
United States | 17 | 6% |
Germany | 12 | 4% |
France | 10 | 4% |
Canada | 9 | 3% |
Netherlands | 6 | 2% |
Sweden | 5 | 2% |
South Africa | 3 | 1% |
Other | 36 | 13% |
Unknown | 98 | 37% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Members of the public | 201 | 75% |
Scientists | 33 | 12% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 20 | 7% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 14 | 5% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
United States | 17 | 5% |
Germany | 7 | 2% |
Netherlands | 6 | 2% |
Spain | 6 | 2% |
Canada | 5 | 1% |
United Kingdom | 5 | 1% |
Switzerland | 4 | 1% |
Portugal | 3 | <1% |
Brazil | 3 | <1% |
Other | 25 | 7% |
Unknown | 265 | 77% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Librarian | 82 | 24% |
Researcher | 51 | 15% |
Student > Master | 41 | 12% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 10% |
Other | 31 | 9% |
Other | 90 | 26% |
Unknown | 15 | 4% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Social Sciences | 102 | 29% |
Computer Science | 57 | 16% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 30 | 9% |
Arts and Humanities | 29 | 8% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 8% |
Other | 71 | 21% |
Unknown | 29 | 8% |