Re: Press release: Dramatic rise in number of authors publishing in open access journals

["Sally Morris \(ALPSP\)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org>]

The relative increase of nearly 1/3 is, I agree, interesting.  But the
absolute percentage of all authors should certainly be taken with a hefty
dose of salt

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Cockerill" <matt@biomedcentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 11:11 PM
Subject: RE: Press release: Dramatic rise in number of authors publishing in 
open access journals

> Perhaps. But it's not clear how any such misunderstanding could explain
> the large jump in authors reporting publishing in open access journals in
> the 2005 CIBER study, as compared to the previous year's study.
>
> And the 2005 study seems to consistently show open access gaining
> acceptance, as compared to the 2004 study, no?
>
> Which, indirectly, reminds me of an interesting slide I saw yesterday in a
> presentation by Johannes Fournier, discussing the Deutsche
> Forschungsgemeinshaft's most recent study of authors and open access.
> (apologies for any vagueness below, but the slides are not yet online and
> the presentation was in German).
>
> The point he made was that although it still seemed to be a fairly small
> segment of scientists who were particularly enthusiastic about open
> access, this correlated very strongly with the respondents reported
> frequency of internet use. If you looked at the subset of data for those
> who were the heaviest internet users, a distinctly larger fraction were
> enthusiastic and positive about open access.
>
> Which does, perhaps, provide another hint of the direction the wind is
> blowing.
>
> Matthew Cockerill, Ph.D.
> Publisher
> BioMed Central ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/ )
> Email: matt@biomedcentral.com