Re: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

[Matthew Person <mperson@mbl.edu>]

I have no opinion on this but out of curiosity I unscientifically 
counted 315 articles in the latest issue of PLoS One.

At $1350 article processing charge per article, maybe $425,250 
was taken in on this issue.

Again, an unscientific method...if all 12 issues per year have 
315 articles, that would be over five million dollars in article 
processing charges,

I don't know what to think of this, but I think the general 
figures are pretty interesting.

To follow up on the above, I did the arithmetic hypothetically: 
if a commercial journal has 1000 subscribers and charges $5000 
per year per subscription, that also comes to about $5,000,000. 
Kind of shows what an open access publisher can be up against.

Matthew Person
Technical Services Coordinator
MBLWHOI Library
MBL Center for Library and Informatics
www.mblwhoilibrary.org
The MBLWHOI Library is a founding member of the Biodiversity 
Heritage Library
www.biodiversitylibrary.org


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nawin" <nawin@nawingupta.com>
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 8:17:11 PM
Subject: RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

Many of the top STM journals accept only a small number of the 
articles submitted, with acceptance rates often at less than 10%. 
What is the acceptance rate for PLoS One?

Nawin Gupta
INFORMED PUBLISHING SOLUTIONS, INC.
ngupta@IPSIG.com

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Sally Morris
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:32 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: RE: PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

Conventional wisdom has it that above a certain size, a journal 
becomes unusable for its readers. Obviously this is true in the 
print world, and presumably browsing PLoS One is impossible - but 
does that matter in the digital age, or not? I'd be very 
interested in people's views

Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK BN13 3UU
Email: sally@morris-assocs.demon.co.uk