DOAJ Open Access 2023

Is it open access if registration is required to obtain scientific content?

Yuki Yamada Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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Some journals require users to register before accessing a scientific paper, despite labelling that content as open access (OA) and free-of-charge. We refer to such cases as members-only OA (MOOA), which we contend is not &lsquo;free&rsquo; since users are forced to &lsquo;pay&rsquo; with personal data. Scholarly content may be accessible via MOOA to either the in-browser text (HTML) or to the archival-friendly version (PDF), or both. We suggest a four-tier typology to capture the degree of openness based on this observation. We believe that technical guidelines of OA implementation should not permit MOOA.

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Academies and learned societies Bibliography. Library science. Information resources

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Yuki Yamada

Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva

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Yamada, Y., Nishikawa-Pacher, A., Silva, J.A.T.d. (2023). Is it open access if registration is required to obtain scientific content?. https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2023.e98101

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Tahun Terbit: 2023
Sumber Database: DOAJ
DOI: 10.3897/ese.2023.e98101
Akses: Open Access ✓