Open Science

" ... We can imagine that there is a group of scholars (practitioners of openness) that publish virtually everything openly. On the other hand, there might be researchers who do not know, or are not interested in open access, publishing everything in the traditional model. But also a third group may exist who publish in both models, depending on various factors. Different configurations of these groups may result with the same total open access publishing output, while indeed each configuration creates a market with a totally different structure and with different possibilities of growth. With this post I would like to examine which configuration is more likely to be true in the case of the green and gold open access model. I will relay the data from the recent survey by De Gruyter Open. The major conclusions that I want to present in this post are: 1) Gold open access is relatively well distributed among researchers in our sample. 2) Article Processing Charges are extremely unevenly distributed among researchers (big share of all APCs comes from small amount of authors). 3) Green open access papers are more concentrated than gold ones are. A smaller number of authors than in the gold OA are responsible for a majority of the output. All these conclusions should be compared with the results of other research on open access ..."