{"id":21508,"date":"2018-08-18T15:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-18T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=21508"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T14:01:17","slug":"access-availability-of-articles-from-highly-ranked-religious-studies-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/access-availability-of-articles-from-highly-ranked-religious-studies-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Access Availability of Articles from Highly Ranked Religious Studies Journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theolib.atla.com\/theolib\/article\/download\/465\/1684\/\">&#8220;The Open Access Availability of Articles from Highly Ranked Religious Studies Journals: A Study of Ten Journals&#8221;<\/a>, <em>Theological Librarianship<\/em>, April 2018.<\/p>\n<p>A study of ten highly-ranked religious journals in mid 2015, aiming to find 377 paywalled articles in free self-archived and repository form (by 2016).  The choice of top-titles means it was slanted toward health\/medical (<em>Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy, Journal of Religion and Health, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Intl. Journal for the Psychology of Religion, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion<\/em> were five of the ten), and so it probably shouldn&#8217;t be taken as a measure of trends in the core humanities.  I suspect they would have had less success with leading paywalled journals in church history, art history, theology, music, ethnography etc.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the results are interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;OA versions were found for 132 (35 percent) of&#8221; [the 377 articles, and] &#8220;results indicate that using both Google and Google Scholar to search for OA religious studies journal scholarship yields better results than only using Google or Google Scholar.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course one can&#8217;t guarantee that what&#8217;s online a year after publication will still be online a decade later, if self-archiving.  It would be interesting to see a long-term study of the &#8220;rot rate&#8221; or &#8220;404 rate&#8221; in OA unofficial self-archiving of paywalled articles over the period of a decade.  I&#8217;d suspect it would be around 40%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Open Access Availability of Articles from Highly Ranked Religious Studies Journals: A Study of Ten Journals&#8221;, Theological Librarianship, April &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2018\/08\/18\/access-availability-of-articles-from-highly-ranked-religious-studies-journals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}