Dissertação de Mestrado

Evolutionary Multi-Sector Analysis of Open-Access Adoption in Scientific Communication

Alexandre Miguel da Silva Pires2023

Informações chave

Autores:

Alexandre Miguel da Silva Pires (Alexandre Miguel da Silva Pires)

Orientadores:

Francisco João Duarte Cordeiro Correia dos Santos (Francisco Correia dos Santos); Jorge Manuel dos Santos Pacheco

Publicado em

13/10/2023

Resumo

Open-Access (OA) publishing has seen a considerable rise in adoption and public support as an alternative to traditional Closed-Access (CA). Despite its benefits for researchers, OA faces challenges regarding publisher adoption, as there is no clear revenue compensation. Additionally, various proposed government laws seek to enforce OA for publicly financed research. We present a model to investigate the adoption of OA, and its limiting factors, by taking into consideration the three main actors in the scientific communication system: funders, publishers and researchers. With it, we extract the impact of key factors, such as funding, revenue, publishing fees, taxes, and other relevant parameters on the resulting adoption dynamics. We also assess the impact of the most common alternative publishing methods: hybrid and Green OA publishing. Furthermore, we discuss policies to incentivize the adoption of OA. Our framework resorts to evolutionary game theory (EGT) applied to multiple populations to capture the multi-sector interactions between the different main actors, where the success of an individual is directly influenced by the other sectors.

Detalhes da publicação

Autores da comunidade :

Orientadores desta instituição:

Domínio Científico (FOS)

electrical-engineering-electronic-engineering-information-engineering - Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática

Idioma da publicação (código ISO)

eng - Inglês

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Embargo levantado

Data do fim do embargo:

07/09/2024

Nome da instituição

Instituto Superior Técnico