What is it about?
By looking specifically at the published literature of the library and information science (LIS) community, this article evaluates the discussion of the barriers that have hindered the complete transition to open access publishing over the ten year period 2004–2014. The comprehensive role of the LIS professional in open access (i.e., as creator, advocate, consumer, educator, developer) makes them a unique and comprehensive model to measure the overall climate of open access. Data, generated using content analysis and bibliometrics, are compared to a longitudinal study by Bo-Christer Björk over the same time period. Results confirm the growth of the discussion of open access in the past ten years and provide insight into the most prevalent issues hindering the development of open access.
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Why is it important?
This study adds to the dialog of barriers to gold open access by exploring the voice of the LIS community and illustrating changes in interest over time. This study complemented Björk’s results that the majority of the barriers to gold open access are lower today than ten years ago.
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One interesting result to that would be of interest to follow: in 2014 only 25% of the articles examining "open access" as a topic were published in open access journals.
Ms Amy Forrester
University of Tennessee Knoxville
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This page is a summary of: Barriers to Open Access Publishing: Views from the Library Literature, Publications, September 2015, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/publications3030190.
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