Dear all You may find the green copies of some recent articles by myself and David Solomon at
http://openaccesspublishing.org/ of interest Our studies provides some empirical data concerning some of the issues discussed during the recent discussion on this list Bo-Christer Björk On 10/12/12 5:11 PM, ANDREW Theo wrote: > Dear All, > > I'd like to draw your attention to a piece of work we have carried out which > looks at Gold OA fees and journal impact factors: > > http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/openscholarship/2012/10/02/impact-cost/ > > In short, it appears that 1) hybrid journals generally charge more than full > OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and 2) hybrid journals with > high impact factors charge significantly more than other types of journal for > gold open access. > > I find this apparent correlation between journal impact factor and cost > worrying and would welcome feedback. Is this something that other people are > seeing or have we got our facts wrong? > > Kind regards, Theo > __________________________ > Theo Andrew > Research Publications Service > Edinburgh University Library > > tel. 0131 651 3850 > web. http://bit.ly/UoE-RPS > post. 4 Buccleuch Place, > Edinburgh, EH8 9LW. > skype. theoandrew > > _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
