Eric, What is the significance of 0.8% (83/10,429) ? What useful metrics can you draw from that ? Why would Springer deserve a kudo ? Just for "transparency"? What's new if it becomes clear that double-dipping means taking underfunded academic institutions for a ride ?
Greetings, Bernard _____________________ BernardRentier Hon. Rector, Université de Liège, Belgium > Le 27 mai 2015 à 00:53, Éric Archambault > <eric.archamba...@science-metrix.com> a écrit : > > Dear all > Yesterday I was complaining about the fact that journals were not transparent > about their gold à la pièce. > Here is an example of a positive step in the right direction: > http://link.springer.com/journal/10645 > Here, one can see clearly what the OA papers are, and one can calculate the > proportion of Gold to locked papers. > The stats for this journal reveals that 83/10,429 papers are gold à la pièce > (aka hybrid). > This helps library determine if they are taken for a ride (i.e. with double > dipping). > I’ll see whether and how Science-Metrix could start monitoring these journals > to see how much more they get cited (or less, as this is a hypothesis!) – > this would show the golden benefits to scientific publishers. > Well, Kudo to Springer! The company should definitely be congratulated for > leading the way among the big three, it is the least afraid of embracing OA, > the most transparent, and likely to be coming out on top following the > transition to OA (which certainly won’t be a simple flip, as Stevan said, > rather a Escher impossible-figure, an evolutionarily unstable strategy. As > Schumpeter said, these are certainly gales of creative destruction, and let’s > hope that more progressive publishers such as Springer destroy the market > share of dinosaurs!). > Éric Archambault > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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