This document discusses open access publishing and open access journals. It notes that open access refers to digital works that are available online for free without restrictions. The document outlines that while open access publishing is increasing, traditional publishers still charge fees to access research. It describes the different versions of scholarly works and options for open access publishing like institutional repositories and open access journals. The conclusion advocates for making scholarly works openly accessible to help disseminate knowledge and address biases caused by paywalls.

1. José A. Ruipérez Valiente, PhD (@JoseARuiperez)
UMU – University of Murcia – (jruiperez@um.es)
Senior Researcher
IEEE Member
5.5. Open Publication
EDUCATION SOCIETY
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Unit 5 – Open Education Science
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories

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Introduction
•Open Access (OA) is digital literature, online and free to
access, without restrictive copyrights (Suber, 2004)
•Open Access publishing is importantly rising
• 8% of the papers published in 2006 were OA (Bjork et al., 2009)
• 45% were openly accessible in 2015 (Piwowar et al., 2018)
• There might be financial conflicts of interest
•Given the nature of science being part of public domain,
research should be accessible by anyone (Merton, 1973)
•We will see two ways to make science available: open
access publishing and open access journals

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Open Access Publishing and Versions
• Three main manuscript stages:
• Pre-print version: The one that you originally submit
• Post-print version: Final submission after addressing reviewers
• Publisher version: The one is published by the publisher
• You will always have the rights on your pre-print version, very
recommended to publish pre-print even before it’s accepted
• You can share more easily and receive feedback
• Some researchers might be afraid of someone stealing their ideas
• There are many repositories, like ArXiV for STEM, SocArXiV for
social sciences, EdArXiV for education or ResearchGate as
academic network
• For other version, you need to check author rights, SHERPA is a
shortcut to know which version can be archived

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Open Access Journals and Portals
•Publishers often charge to access published research
• Scholars (editors or reviewers) work for these publishers for free
• Then, they have to pay to access what they created
• Yes, the system is really broken J
•The alternative are open access journals
• Most of these require a processing fee that ranges from few dollars to
$3,900 (Salomon & Björk, 2012)
• Some argue that these journals have lower quality and potential financial
interests (for profit vs. academic associations)
• Predatory publishing is on the rise, since it is in the interest of for profit
companies (Clark & Smith, 2015)
• CEUR-WS is a great example of free and open publisher

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Conclusions
•Science, by definition and purpose, should be available
for free
•Pay-walled content also increase biases between regions
•This is specially problematic in education, since non-
university teachers cannot access educational research
•Guarantee your work is accessible by everyone à always
archive pre- or post-print copies in your personal or
institutional site
•The publish-or-perish culture is one of the main issues
causing this issue with predatory journals
•Rankings dictate where a researcher ‘can’ publish

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References
• van der Zee, T., & Reich, J. (2018). Open education science. AERA Open, 4(3), 2332858418787466.
• Suber, P. (2005). Open access overview.
• Bjork, B. C., Roos, A., & Lauri, M. (2009). Scientific journal publishing: yearly volume and open access availability.
Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 14(1).
• Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J. P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., ... & Haustein, S. (2018). The state of OA:
a large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ, 6, e4375.
• Merton, R. K. (1973). The sociology of science: Theoretical and empirical investigations. University of Chicago press.
• Solomon, D. J., & Björk, B. C. (2012). A study of open access journals using article processing charges. Journal of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology, 63(8), 1485-1495.
• Clark, R. E. (1983). Reconsidering research on learning from media. Review of educational research, 53(4), 445-459.

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José A. Ruipérez Valiente, PhD (@JoseARuiperez)
UMU – University of Murcia – (jruiperez@um.es)
Senior Researcher
IEEE Member
5.5. Open Publication
Unit 5 – Open Education Science
MOOC – Foundations to Open Education and OERs repositories