Naslov
Open Access : was it really deus ex machina?

Autori
Hebrang Grgić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Pubmet 2014

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 18.09.2014. - 19.09.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
open access, scientific communication, cost models

Sažetak
The presentation focuses on major problems Open Access (OA) movement is facing today. The movement arose form the “old tradition” that met new technologies and was supposed to be solution to the journal crisis which culminated in 1990s. The idea, defined in the Budapest Open Access Initiative, was to assure free and unrestricted online availability of peer- reviewed journal literature. The beginnings of formal scholarly communication, back in 1665, had similar ideas of making research results available to the widest possible public. Has OA movement achieved its goal? Has it evolved in the way it was supposed to? The idea was excellent – removing access barriers would increase visibility, impact and quality of research. And indeed, it is proven that OA articles have better impact and visibility (Brody, Harnad etc.). But publishing scientific information has its costs. New models have been developed, some of them causing new restrictions and barriers. The most popular model is author-pay model – if the author can afford paying, his work would be more visible and more citable. But if he can’t, a new problem arises – some research results, although valuable, are not published at all. Another problem is phenomenon of so-called predatory publishers that neglect quality control mechanisms in order to make profit. Those publishers are a great threat to the development of science. In conclusion, we will try to answer the question from the title – was Open Access deus ex machina, i. e. did it solve the access crisis.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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