I'm trying to update what I know about sales of open access by the article.
Here is what I'd like to know:
What publishers sell free access by the article, in what journals, and at
what price?
Where free access is sold by the article, what percent of authors buy it?
Here is what I already know, organized by publisher.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
Journal: Limnology and Oceanography
How long offered: since January 1999
Price: Cost of 500 hard copy reprints
Percent of authors buying OA: 46% (first two issues of 2004)
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Journals (4): Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Journal of
Economic Entomology, Environmental Entomology, and Journal of Medical
Entomology
How long offered: since January 2000.
Price: 75% of the cost of 100 hard copy reprints; i.e., $120 for an 8-page
article in 2003.
Percent of authors buying OA: 62% (all of 2003)
Estimated net revenues from sales of "Open Access Reprints" in 2003:
$53,297.
AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Journal: Physiological Geonomics
How long offered: since July 2003
Price: $1500 per article.
Percent of authors buying OA: none noted for most recent three issues
[have asked for data]
COMPANY OF BIOLOGISTS Journals (3): Development, Journal of Cell
Science, Journal of Experimental Biology How long offered: since
January 2004 Price: $800 per article ("special introductory rate").
Percent of authors buying OA: none noted for most recent three
issues of
JEB [have asked for data]
Thomas J. Walker
Department of Entomology & Nematology
PO Box 110620 (or Natural Area Drive)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
E-mail: t...@ufl.edu (or tjwal...@ifas.ufl.edu)
FAX: (352)392-0190
Web: http://csssrvr.entnem.ufl.edu/~walker/
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Prior AmSci topic thread on this topic:
"Should Publishers Offer Free-Access Services?" (1998)
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/0017.html
