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Open Access Publishing

Resource System
Scholarly information
Resource Units
Peer reviewed journal articles
Location
World Wide Web

Open access publishing is located on the world wide web, accessible anywhere where there is both internet access and a capable computer. Open access publishing is directly related to the digital knowledge commons, which started with the advent of the Internet around the 1950s and spans into present day and catalogues an action situation of over 3 billion people who have active access to the internet. The resource unit is peer-reviewed scholarly information or “high quality” information.
The social dilemma is how to create equal access to peer-reviewed information, which the advent of open access publishing (“author pays” model) helps with, as opposed to traditional publishing (“reader pays” model). Connected to this issue is the dilemma of how to monitor the open access journal articles to make sure that they do not neglect the peer-review process that makes scholarly information credible.

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Resource System

Peer reviewed information in the format of a scholarly article published in an open access journal.

Resource Users

All people with access to internet and a capable computer (>3 billion people world-wide)

Different positions include:
- Author of information
- Consumer of information
- Peer reviewer of information
- Board member of open access journal

- Individuals monitor open access journals for quality control

Public Infrastructure

- Academic institutions
- Open access journals
- Government

- Self-organized reporting and monitoring of open access journals into a list (i.e., Beall's list)

Public Infrastructure Providers

- Research universities or organizations that fund research for experimentation
- Government that provides subsidies to research universities and organizations
- Researchers who write scholarly articles for publishing
- Journals who publish articles
- Internet servers that host the journal's websites
- Electricity providers

- Third parties accumulate and host information in regards to the quality of different open access journals (specifically regarding their peer review process)

Relationship 1

- Authors provide publications and payment for publishing in the open access domain
- Peer reviewers serve as the gatekeepers what gets published
- Journals publish the information and organize the peer review (or lack thereof) process
- Interested parties monitor and report on the quality of different open access journals to third parties, such as Beall's list (www.scholarlyoa.com)

Relationship 2

- Authors submit their potential publications to the journals
- Readers access the journal's website to consume information
- Board members participate in shaping the quality of the journal
- Authors and readers pay electricity company for access to internet
- All people pay the government to fund academic institutions
- Interested parties report suspicious journals and publishers to a third party such as Beall's list

Relationship 3

- Authors provide the intellectual creativity to produce articles to be submitted to the journals
- Interested parties provide monitoring services of open access journals to third parties
- Government funds public institutions like academic universities and some organizations
- Taxpayers pay into government system
- Electricity providers power the servers that host the websites where the open access domain exists

Relationship 4

- The journals provide access to the articles

Relationship 5

- If the journals do not maintain a peer review process of the information that they publish, this can diminish trust between the authors and readers of the articles produced in open access
- The articles posted in open access journals tend to get higher rates of citations and wider dispersal, making the authors more popular in the open access domain and encouraging future publications
- The peer review process serves as gatekeeper to what is published and increases the overall quality of the open access domain

Relationship 6

- Authors provide the supply for the journals
- Readers create the demand for the journals
- The peer review process improves the author's quality of writing

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