Moving wall

A Moving Wall (German: moving wall) is in scientific publishing a period of time refers to the availability of content on the Internet. JSTOR defined the moving wall as the period between the most recent magazine issue in its database and the most recently published issue. Usually the time interval, also known as an embargo (in the sense of a blocking period ), is given in years. It is intended to protect publishers from losses by giving them an unrivaled initial evaluation online or in print.

Originally related to scientific journals ( Delayed Open Access ), the term can also be applied to other products such as book series or digitized copies, the accessibility of which changes after a fixed period of time.

The moving wall can refer both to being fed into a (chargeable) database and to being released under Open Access .

Examples

• For current journals in JSTOR , the period is usually 3–5, but a maximum of 10 years. The historical magazine has a moving wall of 10 years in JSTOR.
• In DigiZeitschriften , at the end of 2014, subscribers were able to view the 2009 edition as the youngest volume of the magazine for German antiquity and German literature .
• The open access offer of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in the Zeitschrift für Bayerische Landesgeschichte says : "The online edition is updated to the print edition every five years". In fact, at the end of 2014, only the years up to and including 2007 were available.
• Google Books is releasing European books for German and non-US readers 141 years after the year of publication (books after 1879 are therefore not yet accessible in 2020).

Web links

• Entry in the acquisition wiki

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Angela Karasch : Successful Research - Art History . Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 67 chose "wandering spacers" as the transmission.
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Beatrice Popa: Journal for Bavarian State History (ZBLG) . In: bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de .