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Abstract The availability of Open Access journals in the various fields of knowledge in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science is hypothesized to present strong inequalities, thus affecting the choice of journals by researchers wishing to publish their research results in Open Access. The first objective of this research was to contrast this hypothesis, by crossing the list of journals available at WoS with the lists of the Directory of Open Access Journals. The availability of OA journals presents strong inequalities, ranging from 5 to 40% depending on the field of knowledge. At the level of universities, such disparity in the availability of Open Access journals is an important factor regarding their accomplishment of Open Access mandates considering their specialization profiles. In this work, as the second objective, the publications available on the Web of Science (from 2016 to 2020) of the universities belonging to the YERUN Network (Young European Research Universities) are studied in order to identify their specialization profiles, their Open Access types (and evolution) and the possible interactions between their specialization and the availability of Open Access journals and their respective fields of specialization. A general overview of the volumes of funded research and the different proportions of Open Access and non-Open Access in funded and non-funded research is also provided. The indicator “Open Access Likelihood” is introduced and applied as a proxy for the likelihood of Open Access publications taking into account the fields of specialization of the YERUN universities. The results of its application underline the need to take into consideration both, specialization and Open Access availability when designing feasible Open Access mandates. Future research includes the study of the availability of Open Access journals by tiers of impact actors.
在Clarivate Analytics的Web of Science中,不同知识领域的开放获取期刊的可获得性被假设为存在强烈的不平等,从而影响了希望在开放获取中发表研究成果的研究人员对期刊的选择。本研究的第一个目的是对比这一假设,通过交叉WoS可获得的期刊列表与开放获取期刊目录列表。开放获取期刊的可获得性表现出强烈的不平等,根据知识领域的不同,从5%到40%不等。在大学的层面上,考虑到他们的专业概况,开放获取期刊的可用性的这种差异是影响他们完成开放获取任务的一个重要因素。在这项工作中,作为第二个目标,研究了属于YERUN网络(年轻的欧洲研究型大学)的大学在科学网上可用的出版物(从2016年到2020年),以确定他们的专业概况,他们的开放获取类型(和演变)以及他们的专业与开放获取期刊的可用性及其各自专业领域之间可能的相互作用。本文还提供了受资助研究的总体概况,以及开放获取和非开放获取在受资助和非资助研究中的不同比例。“开放获取可能性”指标被引入并应用,作为考虑到YERUN大学专业领域的开放获取出版物可能性的代理。其应用结果强调,在设计可行的开放获取授权时,需要同时考虑专业化和开放获取的可用性。未来的研究包括研究开放获取期刊的可获得性的影响行为者的层次。
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Transinformação es una revista cuatrimestral especializada, abierta a las contribuciones de la comunidad científica nacional e internacional y editada por la Facultad de Biblioteconomía y el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales Aplicadas de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Campinas. Fundada en 1989, está clasificada en la lista Qualis como A1 y publica artículos que contribuyen al estudio y el desarrollo científico de las Ciencias de la Información, la Biblioteconomía, la Archivología, la Museología y sus áreas afines.