Tracking open access journals evolution: Some considerations in open access data collection validation

@article{citeulike:1451771, abstract = {This article examines the evolution of a collection of open access journals (OAJs,) indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI; Thomson Scientific Philadelphia, PA) against four validity criteria including a free, immediate, full and constant access policy for at least 5 years. Few journals are found to be wrongly identified as OAJ or to have a dubious access policy. Some delayed journals evolved into gold OA; however, these are scarce compared to the number of journals that withdrew from gold OA to be an embargoed or a partially OAJ. A majority of the journals meet three of the criteria as they provide free and immediate access to their entire contents. Although a lot are found to follow a constant policy, a large number has an OA lifetime shorter than 5 years, due to the high frequency of newly launched or newly converted journals. That is the major factor affecting the validity of the collection. Only half of the collection meets all the requirements.}, address = {Department of Library and information Science, shiraz University, Iran, and Department of Library and information Science, University of Tehran, Iran.; Department of Library and Information Science, University of Tehran, Iran}, author = {Sotudeh, Hajar and Horri, Abbas }, citeulike-article-id = {1451771}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20639}, journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology}, keywords = {access, journals, open}, number = {9999}, pages = {NA+}, posted-at = {2007-07-12 11:31:43}, priority = {2}, title = {Tracking open access journals evolution: Some considerations in open access data collection validation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20639}, volume = {9999}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1451771 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1451771 TI - Tracking open access journals evolution: Some considerations in open access data collection validation JF - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology VL - 9999 IS - 9999 SP - NA AD - Department of Library and information Science, shiraz University, Iran, and Department of Library and information Science, University of Tehran, Iran.; Department of Library and Information Science, University of Tehran, Iran N2 - This article examines the evolution of a collection of open access journals (OAJs,) indexed by the Science Citation Index (SCI; Thomson Scientific Philadelphia, PA) against four validity criteria including a free, immediate, full and constant access policy for at least 5 years. Few journals are found to be wrongly identified as OAJ or to have a dubious access policy. Some delayed journals evolved into gold OA; however, these are scarce compared to the number of journals that withdrew from gold OA to be an embargoed or a partially OAJ. A majority of the journals meet three of the criteria as they provide free and immediate access to their entire contents. Although a lot are found to follow a constant policy, a large number has an OA lifetime shorter than 5 years, due to the high frequency of newly launched or newly converted journals. That is the major factor affecting the validity of the collection. Only half of the collection meets all the requirements. KW - access KW - journals KW - open AU - Sotudeh, Hajar AU - Horri, Abbas PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20639 ER -