A comparison of subscription and open access journals in construction management and related fields
-
Published:2012-05-30
Issue:2
Volume:12
Page:42
-
ISSN:2204-9029
-
Container-title:Construction Economics and Building
-
language:
-
Short-container-title:CEB
Author:
Bjork Bo-Christer
Abstract
The Internet has profoundly changed the technical infrastructure for the publishing of scientific peer reviewed journals. The traditional business model of selling the content to subscribers is increasingly being challenged by Open Access journals, which are either run at low cost by voluntary academics or which sell dissemination services to authors. In addition authors in many fields are taking advantage of the legal possibilities of uploading free manuscript versions to institutional or subject-based repositories, in order to increase readership and impact. Construction Management is lagging behind many other fields in utilising the potential of the web for efficient dissemination results, in particular to academics outside the leading universities in industrialised countries. This study looks closer at the current publishing situation in construction management and related fields and compares empirical data about 16 OA journals and 16 traditional subscription journals. Of the articles published in 2011 in the subscription journals only 9 % could be found as OA copies. The overall OA availability (including article in OA journals) was 14 % for Construction Management and Economics and 29 for construction IT scholarship.
Publisher
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Subject
General Business, Management and Accounting
Cited by
2 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献,注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献,订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献
1. Citation indicators’ comparison of LIS open access and subscription publications based on Scopus;Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication;2019-07
2. Anatomy of green open access;Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology;2013-11-06