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Vol.56 No.3
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Measuring the Economic Use Value of the National Open Access Platform for Accessing Research Papers

Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science / Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, (P)1225-598X; (E)2982-6292
2022, v.56 no.3, pp.313-334
https://doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2022.56.3.313




& (2022). Measuring the Economic Use Value of the National Open Access Platform for Accessing Research Papers. Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science, 56(3), 313-334, https://doi.org/10.4275/KSLIS.2022.56.3.313
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Abstract

This study examines the economic use value of Discover, an access service of research papers and a subsystem of the National Open Access Platform (AccessON). Based on previous literature on scholarly communications and in-depth interviews with 14 academic and industrial researchers, the service value of Discover was identified as the value of time savings. Administering a survey with 1,313 researchers, the following empirical data required for estimation were obtained: for an average Korean researcher, s/he publishes 2.84 papers per year and takes 30.13 minutes in searching and using one relevant research paper. Discover was found to save 5.64 minutes per paper, saving a total of 225 minutes and KRW 99,384 per researcher per year. Finally, a total economic value of Discover was estimated as KRW 82 billion for the entire 8-year business period. An additional value of KRW 11.3 billion was estimated with the legalization of mandatory deposit of OA research papers. The study demonstrates a sufficient economic value of the national OA platform project, and positive economic impact of the OA legalization, futher offering important domestic data for future research on economic value of scholarly communications.

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Open Access, scholarly information access services, Economic Valuation, Use Value, AccessON, 오픈액세스, 오픈액세스지원시스템, 오픈액세스논문검색시스템, 가치측정, 경제적 이용가치

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