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- Title
Open Access E-journals: Past, Present, and Future.
- Authors
Delgado López-Cózar, Emilio
- Abstract
This article begins by tracing the origin and development of electronic journals in open access, how they emerged, how they were defined, and what needs to be answered. It explains how the transition from the printed world to the electronic came to be in the design and concept of journals; and notes exactly when the launch of these types of publications occurred. To describe the real situation of the journals it uses data provided by the directory of electronic publications Ulrichs and the directory of journals in open access DOAJ. It calculates the number of journals circulating and offers an editorial profile portrait of the current journals. It discovers the existence of a distinct editorial pattern (language, country of origin, type of editorial) in the open access electronic journals, versus the journals published worldwide and especially in respect to those with greater prestige that are indexed in the Journal Citation Reports. In the open access journals there exists a greater role for non-Anglo countries and languages. Also, it detects an extraordinary fragmentation of the editorials that differ from the multinationals that monopolize the market of scientific communication. It concludes reflecting on the challenges and threats that hover over these types of publications: about how the printed world will fade, how these journals will be financed, how to prevent fraud expansion of pirated journals, and declares the emergence of a new model of scientific communication.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC journals; PUBLICATIONS; MONOPOLIES; DATA analysis; LANGUAGE &; languages
- Publication
Electronic Journal of Educational Research, Assessment & Evaluation / Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa, 2015, Vol 21, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1134-4032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7203/relieve.21.1.5005