Subject Repository / Disciplinary Repository
Collection of Author Accepted Manuscripts (AAM) from Aerospace Journals.
Aerospace = Aeronautics & Astronautics
Green Open Access of articles (papers) from
- peer reviewed (closed access) journals
- peer review (closed access) conferences
Benefits for the author:
- more reads
- more citations
- increased journal metrics (journal impact factor, ...)
- real world research impact
Bring your aerospace research to the world; do not wait for the world to come to you!
1 Navigate this Repository – Linking
About Page URL: https://zenodo.org/communities/agoa/about
Collection URL: https://zenodo.org/communities/agoa
- Repository Content / Papers (central)
- Logo (right margin)
- Teaser (right margin)
- Curation Policy (right margin)
2 Background - Green Open Access for Aerospace
After a successful review process (in the frame of a journal or conference) – with much voluntary work by authors, reviewers and editors – the final papers often hide behind a "paywall" [1] which results in lower than otherwise possible reads and citations.
It is up to author's activities to change this with self archiving also known as Green Open Access [2].
Journals supporting Green Open Access usually allow an upload of the AAM into a Subject Repository or Disciplinary Repository. A Subject Repository for aerospace (aeronautics & astronautics) did not exist.
A Subject Repository has certain advantages:
- it can bundle papers by content,
- it can offer authors a domain-specific upload possibility, who have otherwise no access to an institutional repository and do not maintain a personal website.
Investigations have shown that the Green Open Access rate is traditionally low. The reasons for this seems to be:
- author's work overload (Green Open Access uploads take additional time),
- evaluation practices of academics, more geared towards counting the number of papers in highly ranked journals (often closed access = subscription based). This in contrast to less obvious measures of "real world impact", "reads" and "number of citations".
The nice thing with Green Open Access is: You can have the best of two worlds:
- a publication in a highly ranked established journal (usually closed access),
- additional reads and real world impact from free article availability online.
... and as a byproduct, journal metrics (journal impact factor, ...) will show an increase due to massive Green Open Access uploads. This is beneficial also for author's evaluation. The effect of the upload of one single paper is certainly small, but any effort helps.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paywall
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-archiving