Adoption of Creative Commons Licences for the Maximum Utilisation of e-Resource: A Use Case of Open Access Journals Indexed in DOAJ

Serials Librarian Pub Date : 2022-08-18 DOI:10.1080/0361526X.2022.2138682

Pooja Mishra, S. Rout, Sarita Gulati, A. Sinhababu, Prof. Rupak Chakravarty

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ABSTRACT The present study aims to investigate the trend and growth of Open Access (OA) journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) portal. The authors found that there are 17,379 indexed journals in 80 languages from 130 countries covering all fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities. The study presents findings on the contribution to DOAJ by subjects, country, DOAJ seal, article processing charges (APC), and author publishing rights. The study found that medicine journals were highest in this portal and the majority of contributions came from Indonesia. It was also found that the majority of the journals allow the author to hold publishing rights and only 8% of OA journals received the DOAJ seal. The maximum numbers of OA journals have Creative Commons Attribution licences and the highest APC is Rs. 3,97,985. DOAJ is the main source of information in facilitating organized access to OA literature. It is recommended to raise a DOAJ special seal for practicing extra high-level commitment to OA publications.

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采用知识共享许可证最大限度地利用电子资源：DOAJ中开放获取期刊的使用案例

摘要本研究旨在调查开放获取期刊目录（DOAJ）门户网站中开放获取期刊的趋势和增长情况。作者发现，来自130个国家的80种语言的17379种索引期刊涵盖了科学、技术、医学、社会科学、艺术和人文学科的各个领域。该研究介绍了受试者、国家、DOAJ印章、文章处理费（APC）和作者出版权对DOAJ的贡献。研究发现，医学期刊在该门户网站中排名最高，大部分稿件来自印度尼西亚。研究还发现，大多数期刊允许作者拥有出版权，只有8%的OA期刊获得了DOAJ印章。拥有知识共享署名许可证的OA期刊数量最多，APC最高为3,97985卢比。DOAJ是促进有组织地获取OA文献的主要信息来源。建议筹集DOAJ专用章，用于实践对OA出版物的超高级别承诺。

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Serials Librarian Social Sciences-Library and Information Sciences

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期刊介绍： The Serials Librarian is an international journal covering all aspects of the management of serials and other continuing resources in any format—print, electronic, etc.—ranging from their publication, to their abstracting and indexing by commercial services, and their collection and processing by libraries. The journal provides a forum for discussion and innovation for all those involved in the serials information chain, but especially for librarians and other library staff, be they in a single (continuing resources) department or in collection development, acquisitions, cataloging/metadata, or information technology departments.