OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS: REGULATION, SUPPORT AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES

Abstract

The issues of standardization, support and development of scientific journals of the NAS of Ukraine are considered in retrospect and as of today. Conclusions are made about the existing real possibilities of transitioning these journals to Open Access journals, for which the NAS of Ukraine has prepared a number of documents, in particular on issues of regulatory and legal support. The main reason for the insufficient implementation of the principles of Open Access and Open Science is the lack of resources — human and financial. Other factors inhibiting the transition of journals to full open access are the extraordinary speed of growth of requirements for them from various aggregators of scientific information, as well as the surprising slowness of scientometric databases when considering issues of indexing Ukrainian scientific journals.