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most citedOpen is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals

64 citations · 171 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.DL2026

Diamond Fractures: Tracing Journal Transitions Away from Diamond Open Access

Lisa Matthias, Juan Pablo Alperin, Mikael Laakso

While much attention has been paid to journals transitioning toward Diamond Open Access (OA), comparatively little is known about those moving in the opposite direction. We introdu…

cs.DL2022★ 16 cited

Overlay journals: a study of the current landscape

Antti Mikael Rousi, Mikael Laakso

Overlay journals are characterised by their articles being published on open access repositories, often already starting in their initial preprint form as a prerequisite for submis…

cs.DL2021★ 27 cited

Transparency to hybrid open access through publisher-provided metadata: An article-level study of Elsevier

Najko Jahn, Lisa Matthias, Mikael Laakso

With the growth of open access (OA), the financial flows in scholarly journal publishing have become increasingly complex, but comprehensive data and transparency into these flows…

cs.DL2020★ 64 cited

Comment on "Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals"

Matan Shelomi

We comment on a recent article by Laakso et al. (arXiv:2008.11933 [cs.DL]), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. We argue that one rea…

cs.DL2020★ 64 cited

Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals

Mikael Laakso, Lisa Matthias, Najko Jahn

The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge production. With print publications, the responsibility rested primarily with…