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Open Access Open Access journals allow the reader to freely electronically access the publication at any location without any kind of subscription. This allows for access to the publications also at small universities with limited resources, organizations outside academia and in developing countries. The information in Journal Info regarding Open Access is provided by DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and their definition allows adoption of academic peer-reviewed journals which permit the reader to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of the included articles. Self-archiving Self-archiving rights allows the author to archive a version of the publication at a open local homepage/repository and through it ensure open access for the publication. Most institutions centrally maintain self-archiving repositories to make sure that the data is made available on the web and made searchable through the major internet search engines. The information on self-archiving policies is retrieved from the Sherpa/RoMEO database in the UK. Hybrid A hybrid journal allows the author to buy open access for a single article in an otherwise subscription-financed journal. The fee is normally higher than for publishing in open access journals, but might be a possible compromise between a well-known journal and the benefits of making it openly available. The information in Journal Info regarding hybrid status is provided by DOAJ, the Directory of Open Access Journals. Subscription cost per article The published yearly library subscription fee divided by the yearly number of articles of the journal. This is the cost the library pays to subscribe to one article. Journal subscription fees vary remarkably from journal to journal and prices as low as USD100 and as high as USD20,000 are seen. The information is provided by the web service journalprices.com. Subscription cost per citation The yearly library subscription fee divided by the yearly number of citation leading to the journal. This relates journal price to journal quality and usage. The information is provided by the web service journalprices.com. Profit-Status The publishing business is a mix of smaller societies and universities and large for-profit cooperations. The profit-status reports if the publisher is a for-profit or not for-profit entity. The information is provided by journalprices.com. Publication fee As an alternative to subscription financing, several journals charge a fee for the author to publish. The fee varies from journal to journal and might be waived under some circumstances. Journal Eigenfactor As an alternative to the regular ISI impact factor, we have chosen to present the Journal Eigenfactor. It includes essentially the same information, but is possible to display directly in the service and ranks more journals. Details on how the indicator is calculated can be seen through the provider www.Eigenfactor.com. Article Influence The Article Influence is the average article impact and relates to the journal eigenfactor as AI=EF*1000/number or articles. Also this information is provided by www.Eigenfactor.com. FRIDA level FRIDA is a project aimed at evaluation research in Norway. As a part of the effort journal quality is evaluated. The top 20% of all Norwegian publishing in Norway is said to the published in a number of journals and these have been dedicated a leading scholarly level in the service. The rest of the scholarly journals are placed on the scholarly level. The evaluation has been done by researchers in each field. An updated list is kept by DBH in Bergen. |
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