@article{47fdce2090be4ea09701a12944c5dcc8,
title = "European scholarly journals from small- and mid-size publishers: Mapping journals and public funding mechanisms",
abstract = "This study investigates the relationship between scholarly journal publishing and public funding, specifically concerning the context of small- and mid-sized journal publishers in European countries. As part of the movement towards open science, an increasing number of journals globally are free to both read and publish in, which increases the need for journals to seek other resources instead of subscription-income. The study includes two separate components, collecting data separately for each European country (including transcontinental states): 1) the volume and key bibliometric characteristics of small- and mid-sized journal publishers, and 2) information about country-level public funding mechanisms for scholarly journals. The study found that there are 16387 journals from small-and mid-sized publishers being published in European countries of which 36% are already publishing open access. There is large diversity in how countries reserve and distribute funds to journals, ranging from continuous inclusive subsidies to competitive grant funding or nothing at all.",
keywords = "512 Business and Management, journals, funding, national, science policy",
author = "Mikael Laakso and Anna-Maija Multas",
note = "Funding Information: In Spain, most of the scholarly journals are published by small- and mid-size publishers (838 journals), of which a noticeable amount of 72 per cent are OA. We were able to identify three different funding sources for supporting Spanish scientific journal publishing. The Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport offers funding for 50 per cent of the journal{\textquoteright}s total costs within the fields of social sciences and humanities. The University of Granada supports newly-established journals with a 3,000–4,000 euro grant for a 1–3-year period at a time. This annual grant call is aimed only for journals within the University of Granada. A national research funder, The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, offers a grant call for support of scientific efforts with a total budget of 3.9 million euros. This grant may, to our understanding, be partly applicable to scientific journals as well, but no more specific breakdown of the budget distribution or funding decisions could be located. Funding Information: This research was funded by the Finnish Association for Scholarly Publishing. Funding Information: Of the Central and Eastern European countries, we were able to identify that Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, and Romania had some sort of established national funders providing annual calls for funding scientific journal publishing. Within these countries, the small- and mid-size publishers{\textquoteright} journal count is the largest in Poland (1,130 journals), followed by Romania (562 journals) and the rest of the countries (127–236 journals). The national funders in these countries are mainly government agencies, such as Ministries of Science and Education (Bulgaria, Croatia, Poland, and Serbia) and the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitation (Romania). In Poland, university-level funding was also identified from the University of Silesia in Katowice and Priorytetowy Obszar Badawczy Heritage, an association of the Jagellonian University. In Slovenia, the funding is offered by the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). Of these, the Croatian and Slovenian funding organisations and Polish universities require OA for the funded journals. The Croatian Ministry of Science and Education (MSE) expects immediate publishing in their national OA platform. The Croatian MSE also has a large total grant amount, offering approximately 1.6 million euros for funding national scientific journals annually. ARRS does not express the level of OA expected from the funded journals and only describes that they should follow the agency{\textquoteright}s OA strategy. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.",
year = "2023",
month = feb,
day = "17",
doi = "10.1093/scipol/scac081",
language = "English",
volume = "50",
pages = "445--456",
journal = "Science and Public Policy",
issn = "0302-3427",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "3",
}