Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This paper analyzes the status quo and current issues of open access (OA) in scholarly research at Japanese universities from governmental policies, the OA mandate for PhD theses, open-access scholarly articles in institutional repositories, and OA journals. The peculiarity of Japan's OA policies are pointed out and a raised awareness on the part of Japanese scholars of the worldwide movement toward OA is called for. The need for a larger framework for OA that covers the particular case of Japan and opens a discussion on ideal scholarly communication in the digital age is proposed, as opposed to the conventionally used green-versus-gold OA framework designed to address the rising subscription costs of scholarly journals and conflicts between academia and commercial publishers.
Author: Miho Funamori
Institution: The University of Tokyo
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2249500965