Abstract
Today, to publish an academic paper requires experience not only in ‘doing’ the research itself but understanding how it is made available online or in print. This study, an excerpt, has profiled websites and journal articles indexed from the Directory of Open Access Journals during mid-2020 in the field of Science Education, with the end in mind of proposing a publication management model for beginning ‘authors’. Using an exploratory mixed method design, this excerpt of the study extracted 185 corpus websites and 103 corpus journal articles from more than 5 million article records of DOAJ. Findings revealed that United States topped the countries with the highest number of corpus and that majority of these journals not charge submission or article processing charges from authors, yet content crawling was observed in most of the journals. Analysis of corpus articles reported sub-sections consistently included in their submission indicative of an international pattern among accepted articles. Recommendations included the proposal to develop a publication management model for beginning ‘authors’ in state universities and colleges in the Philippines.
Highlights
Globally speaking, the trend is going for open access publications
This is because Open Access (OA) allows researchers to quickly disseminate their results to a global audience (Grant-Kels, 2017)
In the study of Kumar (2014), United States topped the countries with the highest number of articles published in journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or DOAJ, in the field of Environmental Science from 1972-2013
Summary
The trend is going for open access publications. Sharing of information within the scientific community is integral to scientific inquiry. With the rising cost of subscription-based journals libraries might not be able to have all the journals they need (Albert, 2006), which adds to the difficulties in libraries amid budget cuts in Philippine state colleges and universities This proves as a block to scientific knowledge, especially in developing countries such as the Philippines. According to Parker (2013), to support OA, scientists most commonly use the argument that sharing data will facilitate scientific advancements and decrease the incidence of repetition of effort This is because OA allows researchers to quickly disseminate their results to a global audience (Grant-Kels, 2017). Appropriate changes to practice can be made in institutions based on the results of this study to help Filipino researchers publish their work with credible open access publishers and avoid their articles from being mistrusted due to associations with, or being exploited for financial gain by a questionable publisher
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