Attitudes, willingness, and resources to cover article publishing charges: The influence of age, position, income level country, discipline and open access habits

被引:14
作者
Segado-Boj, Francisco [1 ]
Prieto-Gutierrez, Juan-Jose [2 ]
Martin-Quevedo, Juan [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Complutense Madrid, Sch Informat Sci, Dept Journalism & Global Commun, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Int La Rioja, COYSODI Commun & Digital Soc Res Grp, Madrid, Spain
[3] Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Dept Commun Sci & Sociol, Madrid, Spain
关键词
article publishing charges; gold OA; open access; ACADEMICS BEHAVIORS; JOURNALS; AUTHORS; FUTURE;
D O I
10.1002/leap.1455
中图分类号
G25 [图书馆学、图书馆事业]; G35 [情报学、情报工作];
学科分类号
1205 ; 120501 ;
摘要
The rise of open access (OA) publishing has been followed by the expansion of the Article Publishing Charges (APC) that moves the financial burden of scholarly journal publishing from libraries and readers to authors. We introduce the results of an international randomly selected sampled survey (N = 3,422) that explores attitudes towards this pay-to-publish or Gold OA model among scholars. We test the predictor role of age, professional position, discipline, and income-level country in this regard. We found that APCs are perceived more as a global threat to Science than a deterrent to personal professional careers. Academics in low and lower-middle income level countries hold the most unfavourable opinions about the APC system. The less experimental disciplines held more negative perceptions of APC compared to STEM and the Life Sciences. Age and access to external funding stood as negative predictors of refusal to pay to publish. Commitment to OA self-archiving predicted the negative global perception of the APC. We conclude that access to external research funds influences the acceptance and the particular perception of the pay to publish model, remarking the economic dimension of the problem and warning about issues in the inequality between centre and periphery.
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页码:489 / 498
页数:10
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