Perceptions regarding open science appraised by editorsof scholarly publications published in Spain
Pillars of open science are often included within the editorial pol-icies of scholarly journals, including policies on open access publication,availability of underlying research data, preprints and open peer review. Theaim of this paper is to examine and analyse perceptions and editorial prac-tices related to open access, preprints, open research data and open peerreview, from the perspective of editors of scientific journals published inSpain, to gain an insight into editorial policies related to open science.Results and data were obtained by a combined method of online interviewsand an online questionnaire. The online survey was sent to editors fromjournals indexed in the Dulcinea directory, which at the time of the studyincluded 1875 academic journals. A total of 420 responses (22.4%) wereobtained. The results indicated that 92% of the journals were open accessjournals, 2% of the journals conducted open peer review, 15% of thejournals had instructions to allow archiving preprints, and out of375 responses, only 59 journals (16%) reported having a policy on underly-ing research data. Based on these results, there is a trend in favour of openaccess, but the perceived barriers to open peer review outweighed theadvantages. There is also some reluctance to allow preprints to be madeavailable. This concern might be because editors want authors and readersto read and cite the contents published in their journals, rather than theirpreprint versions.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons
2022-12-29
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| Subjects: | Open science, Open access, Scholarly editors, Open research data, Open peer review, Preprints, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/286106 |
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