An Analysis on Current Research Funding and Open Access Status for Science and Technology Articles Published by S University Faculties
To identify current status of research funding and open access, this study analyzed the data available in science and technology articles had been published by S university`s faculty members. The study showed that 71% of the articles funded by their universities or other research sponsors, whereas very few of articles have been self-archived for open access. So, government-sponsored research outputs could not be found in search engine Google Scholar. In developed countries, researchers who have received grants by the public or private sponsors should not only publish articles on scholarly journals but also deposit their digital research outputs in the repositories. Therefore, it is advisable for Korea research sponsors to strengthen and carry out open access mandate related laws. It is very important for universities as well as for their faculties that published articles` impact can be maximized by enabling open access. So, universities may as well construct their repositories and collect the contents with enthusiasm.
Topic 4: Institutional repository success is dependent upon mandates
I would like to approach this problem by first re-stating it. If we deconstruct the assertion in the topic, it has three components: success, dependent and mandates. How might these three concepts be defined in this context? Although the term institutional repository itself is a concept to consider in the topic statement, this response accepts the view that the scope of an institutional repository varies by organization and is whatever the organization determines it to be [14].
Global annual volume of peer reviewed scholarly articles and the share available via different Open Access options
A key parameter in any discussions about the academic peer reviewed journal system is the number of articles annually published. Several diverging estimates of this parameter have been proposed in the past, and have also influenced calculations of the average production price per article, the total costs of the journal system and the prevalence of Open Access publishing. With journals and articles increasingly being present on the web and indexed in a number of databases it has now become possible to quite accurately estimate the number of articles. We used the databases of ISI and Ulrich’s as our primary sources and estimate that the total number of articles published in 2006 by 23 750 journals was approximately 1 350 000. Using this number as denominator it was also possible to estimate the number of articles which are openly available on the web in primary OA journals (gold OA). This share turned out to be 4.6 % for the year 2006. In addition at least a further 3.5 % was available after an embargo period of usually one year, bringing the total share of gold OA to 8.1% Using a random sample of articles, we also tried to estimate the proportion of the articles published which are available as copies deposited in e-print repositories or homepages (green OA). Based on the article title a web search engine was used to search for a freely downloadable full-text version. For 11.3 % a usable copy was found. Combining these two figures we estimate that 19.4 % of the total yearly output can be accessed freely.