Library Herald
Year : 2024, Volume : 62, Issue : 3
First page : ( 349) Last page : ( 369)
Print ISSN : 0024-2292. Online ISSN : 0976-2469.
Global Patterns and Trends in Open Access Journal Publications
Priti Mukhopadhyay* Akhilesh K. S. Yadav**
*PYP Assistant Librarian, R.P. Goenka International, School, Kolkata, email: pritimukhopadhyay1897@gmail.com
**Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, email: Akhilesh.yadav@tiss.edu.
Abstract
The main rationale of this research study was to explore the global patterns of and trends in Open Access Publications. The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online database that indexes open access journal articles and makes them available to the public. This research is a comprehensive study of that particular dataset that is provided for free by DOAJ. The dataset has information on all the journals listed in it and is updated every week. A total of 20, 015 open access journals are indexed in the DOAJ database until December 2023. The results of the study show that Indonesia is on the top in terms of the number of open access journal publications globally. It would be pertinent to mention that Subject wise, most of the publications are made on the subject of medicine. English is the language that is used the most in these publications. “Sciences” is the most commonly used keyword in the journal titles, although it is often found associated with other terms such as “Social” and “Health”. The results demonstrate that the copyright is often held by the authors yet its ownership with the authors has increased or decreased depending on the timeline. Around 89.39% of the publications have the Creative Commons (CC) Licences. When contrasted to other publishers, Elsevier has delivered the most open access journals. Among the different peer-review processes, a total of 59.7% of the journals go through the double-blind peer-review process. Only 8.03% of all journals have the DOAJ Seal because of its strict qualifying rules. Intellectuals and scholars should be encouraged and supported by publicly financed organizations to publish their findings in open access journals. While a large number of open journals are published worldwide, only DOAJ listed or indexed journals were used for analysis in this research study. Several previous studies have been conducted in various countries regarding open access journals, but this study is unique in terms of coverage and time.
Keywords
Open Access, Academic journals, Journal publishing, Scholarly communication, Publishing trends
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