How Green is Our Valley?: Five-Year Study of Selected LIS Journals from Taylor & Francis for Green Deposit of Articles

Authors

Jill Emery, Portland State UniversityFollow

Published In

Insights: the UKSG Journal

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-2018

Subjects

Information resources management, Academic libraries, Electronic information resources -- Management, Library science

Abstract

This study reviews content from five different library and information science journals: Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian, Collection Management, College & Undergraduate Libraries, Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship and Journal of Library Administration over a five-year period from 2012–2016 to investigate the green deposit rate. Starting in 2011, Taylor & Francis, the publisher of these journals, waived the green deposit embargo for library and information science, heritage and archival content, which allows for immediate deposit of articles in these fields. The review looks at research articles and standing columns over the five years from these five journals to see if any articles were retrieved using the OA Button or through institutional repositories. Results indicate that less than a quarter of writers have chosen to make a green deposit of their articles in local or subject repositories. The discussion outlines some best practices to be undertaken by librarians, editors and Taylor & Francis to make this program more successful.

Rights

© 2018 Jill Emery. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use and distribution provided the original author and source are credited.

Description

The data set from this study may be found on figshare: https://figshare.com/articles/How_ Green_is_Our_Valley_Data_Set/6199922.

The Corrigendum is attached as a supplemental file, correcting two paragraphs of the original article.

Locate the Document

https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.406

DOI

10.1629/uksg.406

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/32357

Citation Details

Emery J, How green is our valley?: five-year study of selected LIS journals from Taylor & Francis for green deposit of articles, Insights, 2018, 31: 23, 1–9;