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Re: Author-pays model: more common among subscription than open access journals
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- Subject: Re: Author-pays model: more common among subscription than open access journals
- From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:08:14 EDT
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On 18-Jun-09, at 11:14 PM, Heather Morrison wrote: > Excerpt from a 2005 ALPSP-sponsored study by Kaufman-Wills, > "The Facts about Open Access: > > "On the financial side, we were very surprised to find just how > few of the Open Access journals raise any author-side charges > at all; in fact, author charges are considerably more common > (in the form of page charges, colour charges, reprint charges, > etc) among subscription journals". (From the Overview). The > report is available for free download from: > > http://www.alpsp.org/ngen_public/article.asp?id=200&did=47&aid=270&st=&oaid=-1 TWELVE OA STATISTICS AND THREE CONCLUSIONS (full text: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/591-guid.html) #1: The vast majority of current (peer-reviewed) journal articles are not OA (Open Access) (neither Green OA nor Gold OA). #2: The vast majority of journals are not Gold OA. #3: The vast majority of journals are Green OA. #4: The vast majority of citations are to the top minority of articles (the Pareto/Seglen 90/10 rule). #5: The vast majority of journals (or journal articles) are not among the top minority of journals (or journal articles). #6: The vast majority of the top journals are not Gold OA. #7: The vast majority of the top journals are Green OA. #8: The vast majority of article authors would comply willingly with a Green OA mandate from their institutions and/or funders. #9: The vast majority of institutions and funders do not yet mandate Green OA. #10: The vast majority of Gold OA journals are not paid-publication journals. #11: The vast majority of the top Gold OA journals are paid- publication journals. #12: The vast majority of institutions do not have the funds to subscribe to all the journals their users need. CONCLUSION I: The fact that the vast majority of Gold OA journals are not paid-publication journals is not relevant if we are concerned about providing OA to the articles in the top journals. CONCLUSION II: Green OA, mandated by institutions and funders, is the vastly underutilized means of providing OA. CONCLUSION III: It is vastly more productive (of OA) for universities and funders to mandate Green OA than to fund Gold OA. Stevan Harnad http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/
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