Keywords
Open access, publishing, quality, supervisors PhD Candidates
Description
A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term "open access," but the practice of making journal papers freely available online is a relatively new development. Among the first public statements to use the term "open access," the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities were released in February 2002, and their initial concept of open access refers to unrestricted online access to scholarly research, primarily journal articles. Over the past few years, the number of journals available through open access has increased from 27.9% to 53.7%; currently, 830 journals are indexed in DOAJ, which represents a growth rate of about 51.46 % per year. It should be noted, however, that most of the indexed journals do not rank among the most prestigious. Scopus or WOS indexing these journals does not make any difference. Several PhD supervisors discourage their students from citing open access authors because they are concerned that it will lower the quality of their research. The impact factor of open access journals is low, which supports the argument for not referencing them. There is a growing chasm between academic faculties and libraries because supervisors do not see how free access benefits everyone. The open access model also saves libraries money by reducing the cost of journal subscriptions. Doctoral candidates, however, have difficulty citing highly reputable authors because many faculty members believe that open-access publications are of poor quality. As alleged in this article, libraries do not adequately educate faculty members about open access publishing, which assesses the quality of open-access journals using Q1 and Q2 standards.
Adams Paper
PhD supervisors bad rap of Open Access Journals
A decade or more preceded the formal coinage of the term "open access," but the practice of making journal papers freely available online is a relatively new development. Among the first public statements to use the term "open access," the Budapest Open Access Initiative, Bethesda Statement on Open Access Publishing, and Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities were released in February 2002, and their initial concept of open access refers to unrestricted online access to scholarly research, primarily journal articles. Over the past few years, the number of journals available through open access has increased from 27.9% to 53.7%; currently, 830 journals are indexed in DOAJ, which represents a growth rate of about 51.46 % per year. It should be noted, however, that most of the indexed journals do not rank among the most prestigious. Scopus or WOS indexing these journals does not make any difference. Several PhD supervisors discourage their students from citing open access authors because they are concerned that it will lower the quality of their research. The impact factor of open access journals is low, which supports the argument for not referencing them. There is a growing chasm between academic faculties and libraries because supervisors do not see how free access benefits everyone. The open access model also saves libraries money by reducing the cost of journal subscriptions. Doctoral candidates, however, have difficulty citing highly reputable authors because many faculty members believe that open-access publications are of poor quality. As alleged in this article, libraries do not adequately educate faculty members about open access publishing, which assesses the quality of open-access journals using Q1 and Q2 standards.