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Who are the users of national open access journals?: The case of the Finnish Journal.fi platform
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Snellmaninkatu 13, Helsinki, 00170 Finland.
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Snellmaninkatu 13, Helsinki, 00170 Finland.
Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, Snellmaninkatu 13, Helsinki, 00170 Finland.
University of Borås, Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1504-8395
2021 (English)In: Learned Publishing, ISSN 0953-1513, E-ISSN 1741-4857Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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In this paper we study the diversity of users of open access articles on the Finnish Journal.fi platform. This platform hosts around hundred open access journals from Finland publishing in different fields and mainly Finnish and English languages. The study is based on an online survey, conducted on 48 journals during Spring 2020, in which visitors were asked to indicate their background and allow their location and download behaviour be tracked. Among 668 survey participants, the two largest groups were students (40%) and researchers (36%), followed by private citizens (8%), other experts (7%) and teachers (5%). Other identified user categories include journalists, civil servants, entrepreneurs and politicians. While new publications attract a considerable share of the views, there is still a relatively large interest, especially among students, in older materials. Our findings indicate that Finnish language publications are particularly important for reaching students, citizens, experts and politicians. Thus, open access to publications in national languages is vital for the local relevance and outreach of research. 

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John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021.
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Altmetrics, Open access, Scholarly publishing
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Information Studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25991DOI: 10.1002/leap.1405ISI: 000653496000001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85106243386OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-25991DiVA, id: diva2:1579268
Available from: 2021-07-08 Created: 2021-07-08 Last updated: 2021-07-08

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