Global scholarly communications company Editage has released a report highlighting geographic patterns in author attitudes toward open access publishing. In September this year, Editage had released a comprehensive report based on a global author survey capturing the views of almost 7000 researchers (mostly non-Western, non–English-speaking researchers) on different aspects of scholarly publishing. The latest report released by Editage takes a deep dive into the open access-specific data collected in the survey, and showcases the views of authors from the seven most represented countries in the survey.
Open access has been a topic of hot debate in scholarly publishing for over a decade now, and recent years have been marked with significant developments in global adoption of open access, which is changing the publishing landscape drastically. In this scenario, the report, titled 'Geographic Trends in Attitudes to Open Access: Findings from the Editage Global Author Survey 2018' provides a much-needed global author perspective.
This report showcases the views of authors from the seven most represented countries in the survey - China, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, India, the U.S.A., and the U.K. It offers insights into aspects such as geographic differences in the level of OA awareness; country-specific trends in researchers' stated reasons for choosing or refraining from OA journals; and specific perspectives of Chinese researchers toward the OA publishing model.
The open access movement has progressed at a different pace in every research-producing country. In the wake of the Plan S initiative launched by Science Europe in September this year, and more recently, China's announcement of its support for Plan S, the publishing industry is waiting to see how open access will evolve and shape the scholarly communications landscape. Some of the findings in this report are definitely eye-opening and would be very valuable for publishers and funders who are formulating and refining their open access policies, says Clarinda Cerejo, Associate Vice President, Scholarly Communications, at Editage.
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