It is important to understand that the majority of open access journals do not have article processing charges, to avoid over-estimating the portion of open access publishing funded by APCs.
The number of open access articles, both in total and as correlated with a number of variables including publisher business model, is another interesting and useful research area. Walt Crawford gathered information on the number of articles published using APCs last year - formal publication in process, early work available here: http://walt.lishost.org/2015/05/percentage-of-oa-articles-involving-apcs/ There are many different research questions and approaches people might look into as we transition into open access. My plans do not include counting articles. If someone else would like to take this on, please go for it. I recommend checking in with Walt about his future plans before proceeding. If anyone would like to know what I am planning with the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons project, please see the "About" page: http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/about/ Another major work-in-progress is my Creative Commons and Open Access Critique series: http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2012/10/critique-of-cc-by-series.html best, Heather Morrison On 2015-05-25, at 2:40 PM, Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) wrote: > Heather, > > these are useful data, but in the interpretation of these we will have to > reckon with journal size distributions. What would be helpful is having data > on the number of articles in these journals. It is very likely that smaller > journals are overrepresented in the non-APC OA group and that the share of > non APC OA output by number of articles is substantially lower than 64%. > Maybe 50 percent or even 40? I do not like guessing, so I hope someone will > look into this and come up with some data based on article counts. > > Best, > Jeroen > ________________________________________ > From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [goal-boun...@eprints.org] on behalf of > Heather Morrison [heather.morri...@uottawa.ca] > Sent: Monday, May 25, 2015 4:05 PM > To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) > Subject: [GOAL] Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing > charges > > Thanks to a file supplied by DOAJ community manager Dominic Mitchell, we can > confirm that 64% or about two-thirds of the journals added to DOAJ since > March 2014 do not have article processing charges (720 No charges, 403 Yes > charges, total 1,123). Although there may be differences between this > sub-sample and journals entered in DOAJ before March 2014, this ratio is > similar to what we reported earlier and others have been reporting for some > time. > > The text file supplied by DOAJ has been added to the OA APC dataverse: > http://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dvn/dv/oaapc > > If anyone would like to transform the text file into .csv or other > spreadsheet-manipulable file, that would be helpful. For example, this kind > of processing would make it possible to provide a much more human readable > title list. > > A bit more detail here: > http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2015/05/25/two-thirds-of-doaj-journals-do-not-have-article-processing-charges/ > > best, > > -- > Dr. Heather Morrison > Assistant Professor > École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies > University of Ottawa > http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html > Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/ > heather.morri...@uottawa.ca > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
