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Watch the VIDEO of the presentation.JeDEM, the Journal of E-democracy and Open Government (jedem.org), was first published in 2009 as an initiative of the Centre for E-Governance. It is an open access e-journal (that follows the green open access road) with a focus on topics such as e-democracy, e-participation, open government and open access. The journal follows the green open access road, and it is indexed with EBSCO[1], DOAJ[2], Google Scholar and the Public Knowledge Project metadata harvester[3]. With a wide range of subjects and research fields, articles cover diverse topics so publishing in JeDEM attracts a wide range of authors and readers from different disciplines.While the effects and impact of open access publishing have been studied, there is less research on the motivational factors of publishing in open access e-journals (such as JeDEM) that focus on a user perspective (see e.g. Nicholas et al 2015; Jamali, Nicholas, and Herman 2016). A review of JeDEM by Quality Open Access Market (QOAM)[4] in 2016 provides an external evaluation of JeDEM, but in this contribution, we wish to present and to discuss a research design to assess the users' perspectives and motivational factors for publishing open access whilst also considering different user types and disciplines. A workshop held at CEDEM16 (Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2016[5], see Lampoltshammer, Edelmann, und Schossboeck, 2016)), shed some light on the most important topics for researchers in open access publishing. The results of this workshop revealed some motivations for publishing open access. Another workshop will be held at CeDEM Asia 2016 (Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Asia 2016)[6], with the aim of uncovering further motivational factors and understanding them from a comparative perspective. Comparing the results of both workshops and a literature review regarding motivational factors for open access publishing will form the basis for developing and choosing the questions for a quantitative study (online survey) to be sent out to all users of JeDEM by summer 2017. Conferences in the area of open access will be used to discuss the methodology and set-up of this questionnaire. Registered and potential users will be encouraged to answer the survey, also to find out about their use of the features of the journal (e.g. commenting articles) and how such features contribute to the concept of open science and scholarly communication.By assessing the user perspective of our open access journal, we seek to answer questions such as:Can we distinguish differences in motivation for publishing in open access across user types and disciplines? What differences can be determined?How can users be classified according to their motivations and does it make sense to consider user types and motivations for management activities of an open access journal? What type of users are JeDEM users?What are users' opinion on different aspects of open access publishing and its further development, e.g. open peer review etc. and how do user opinions differ across the disciplines or countries?How can results help other e-publishers or editors in the area of open access and contribute to the field of scholarly communication?As an ongoing research project, we will be looking forward for feedback and recommendations about how to develop the user survey and our activities for the journal.[1] EBSCO Information Services www.ebsco.com[2] DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals https://doaj.org/[3] https://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/[4] https://www.qoam.eu/[5] www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedem16[6] www.donau-uni.ac.at/cedemasia2016

See RECORDING (starts at 00:22:38). Journal editors of all types of scholarly publishing face various issues and choices in order to support the development of the journals they lead and manage. One particular issue is what strategic choices can be made to enhance the visibility, accessibility and impact of research published in their journal as much as possible. Another issue is how to provide potential authors of the journal with useful information that will support them with their publication choice. The objective of this study is twofold. First, it aims to provide an approach that can be used by journal editors to identify topical trends in scholarly-led publishing in their journal, in order to better inform potential future authors of the journal. In particular, we analyse what factors impact the trends and research cooperations over time with a view to research topics and thematic streams, regions, and the research methods employed by authors in previous publications. Second, this study derives potential factors responsible for specific journal developments, such as the influence of open access principles, guest editors, indexing systems, research cooperations and topics addressed by the journal on the visibility, accessibility and impact of the journal. To attain the above-mentioned objectives, this study uses data-mining methods to analyse all the articles published in one journal in particular, namely the (diamond(/platinum) open access e-journal for eDemocracy and Open Government called "JeDEM" (see www.jedem.org) that was set up in 2009. The methods used are a combination of data mining (such as the text mining, topic modelling, k-means clustering, social network analysis and community detection) of journal content and metadata with further qualitative interpretation of results from a journal management perspective. The qualitative part confirms or challenges the data analysis part, particularly with view to potential outliers or developments that cannot be explained by quantitative data analysis alone. Combined with internal knowledge from the journal management perspective, we are able to provide an interpretative component and are to relate the trends emerging from the data to strategic decisions or publication details. The results are as follows. First, our study shows the most prominent research topics of the studied journal, and their evolution over time. Second, the research methods employed by authors publishing in the journal are identified, as well as the research cooperations established through publications in the journal. Third, the crucial factors such as indexing, communication with the community and changes in journal management are derived. The developed approach was found to be useful to gain insights concerning journal developments, and might also be used by editors of other journals to determine their journal strategy. For example, using data mining methods, editors can analyse whether the topics included in their call for papers match the topics on which the journal publishes or whether it needs adaptations to better manage the expectations of future authors of the journal. Thus, our results might also help authors with their publication choices and tracing the evolutionary stages of the studying scientific problem. Finally, our study derives further research questions aiming at achieving a critical assessment of scholarly developments within the publishing sphere over time.