Comparative study of characteristics of authors between open access and non-open access journals in library and information science

- Differences in author characteristics are confirmed between OA and non-OA journals in LIS
- Librarian authors dominate OA journal authorship
- OA journals have a higher proportion of academic authors than do non-OA journals
- Librarian-librarian collaboration dominates in OA coauthored articles, but this trend is decreasing
- Academic-academic collaboration dominates in non-OA coauthored articles, and this trend is increasing