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First Published August 22, 2019
Research Article
A Crisis in “Open Access”: Should Communication Scholarly Outputs Take 77 Years to Become Open Access?
Abstract
This
study diachronically investigates the trend of the “open access” in the
Web of Science (WoS) category of “communication.” To evaluate the
trend, data were collected from 184 categories of WoS from 1980 to 2017.
A total of 87,997,893 documents were obtained, of which 95,304 (0.10%)
were in the category of “communication.” In average, 4.24% of the
documents in all 184 categories were open access. While in
communication, it was 3.29%, which ranked communication 116 out of 184.
An Open Access Index (OAI) was developed to predict the trend of open
access in communication. Based on the OAI, communication needs 77 years
to fully reach open access, which undeniably can be considered as
“crisis in scientific publishing” in this field. Given this stunning
information, it is the time for a global call for “open access” by
communication scholars across the world. Future research should
investigate whether the current business models of publications in
communication scholarships are encouraging open access or pose
unnecessary restrictions on knowledge development.
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