Open access mirror journals: an experiment in brand loyalty
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020711%3A_____%2F23%3A10154949" target="_blank" >RIV/00020711:_____/23:10154949 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://escienceediting.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.6087/kcse.308" target="_blank" >https://escienceediting.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.6087/kcse.308</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.6087/kcse.308" target="_blank" >10.6087/kcse.308</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Open access mirror journals: an experiment in brand loyalty
Original language description
Open access (OA) mirror journals have been launched by Elsevier as an alternative or supplement to original non-OA journals. These OA mirror journals have the same title, aims and scope, editorial board, and peer-review process as their parent journal, and are distinguished by an "X" after the name. However, because the OA mirror journals have their own ISSNs (International Standard Serial Numbers), they are completely separate journals, which does not fit with Harrison's assertion that by publishing OA mirror journals, Elsevier is responding to authors' need to publish in OA journals while simultaneously not wanting to sacrifice their association with the leading journal brands in their field. Asai compared 22 pairs of Elsevier's OA mirror journals with their parent journals and found that the parent journals were more preferred by authors. This essay analyses Elsevier's OA mirror journals as an experiment of one publisher, which has a dominant position in the scientific publishing market. Elsevier has set an ambitious price level for article processing charges (APCs) in these OA mirror journals. The evolution of the price level for mirror journals, compared with the evolution of the price level for APCs for other Elsevier's journals, is used to assess the success of Elsevier's experiment.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50804 - Library science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science Editing
ISSN
2288-7474
e-ISSN
2288-8063
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
KR - KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
154-157
UT code for WoS article
001064099000006
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85170209567