Re: NIH Public Access Policy: is the funding for full OA already there?

[Phil Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

At 04:57 PM 8/14/2007, Heather Morrison wrote:
>Let's look at what can be done just with the $30 million per
>year already spent on publication charges.  About 60-65,000
>articles were published based on NIH research in 2003.  If all
>of these were published as open access, less than half would
>incur article processing fees (as indicated by an ALPSP study).

Heather, Your figures may be acceptable in the Imaginary Journal
of Poetic Economics, but not as a source for honest debate about
publication funding.  As indicated by Martin Frank's post (see:
http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/0708/msg00024.html),
authors of NIH grants are (un)fortunately not publishing in
journals such as Gaceta M=E9dica de Caracas or Acta Medica Iranica.
As indicated by Dr. Zerhouni's data, NIH grant recipients are
publishing in top society journals such as the Journal of
Biological Chemistry, PNAS, Biochemistry, among others.  There is
a very significant difference between what these publishers
would/are charging and the average journal listed in the DOAJ.

--Phil Davis
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