[GOAL] Re: Fwd: Fee-free scholarly publishing

[Peter Suber]

See William Walters and Anne Linvill (August 2010):  "While just 29 percent
of OA journals charge publication fees, those journals represent 50 percent
of the articles in our study."
http://crl.acrl.org/content/early/2010/09/14/crl-132.abstract

     Peter

Peter Suber
gplus.to/petersuber


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Richard Poynder <ricky at richardpoynder.co.uk
> wrote:

> [...]
>
> I realise that this thread is a discussion of how to document and support
> "fee-free" OA journals, but it might be useful to put in context the
> comment
> below that 70% of journals listed in the DOAJ (in 2009) were no-fee.
>
> I say this because some might conclude on reading the comment that 70% of
> *papers* published in OA journals are being published without a fee. This
> is
> clearly not so. While some of the journals in DOAJ may currently be
> publishing no more than a handful of papers, others will be publishing many
> more. Indeed, for-fee "mega journals" will be publishing a great many more.
> Thus PLoS ONE (which charges an APC of $1,350) is now publishing around
> 2,000 papers a month, and expects to publish 3% of the STM literature this
> year
> (http://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2012/05/18/plos-one-a-personal-farewell/).
>
> Moreover, as subscription publishers increasingly embrace OA we can be sure
> that they will be doing so by charging an APC.
>
> As such, I assume that we have no idea at all of how many OA *papers* are
> being published on a no-fee basis. (Or perhaps someone does have some data
> here)?
>
> Either way, list members will doubtless feel that this makes it is all the
> more important to document and support fee-free journals.
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Richard Poynder
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org
> [mailto:open-access-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Gray
> Sent: 15 August 2012 15:37
> To: open-access at lists.okfn.org
> Subject: [Open-access] Fwd: Fee-free scholarly publishing
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm forwarding a very interesting recent thread about fee-free scholarly
> publishing started by Peter Murray-Rust with Rosemary Laurent from INRIA
> [1], Richard Poynder, Peter Suber, Jenny Molloy, Tom Olijhoek, Ross Mounce
> and several other OKFN folks.
>
> Peter Murray-Rust's original email to Rosemary is at the bottom, as well as
> some of the subsequent correspondence with Rosemary Laurent, Richard
> Poynder
> and Peter Suber.
>
> Basically the discussion is about how we can better document and support
> 'fee-free' open access journals - which might include case studies, a
> possible 'fee-free' OA handbook, publicity and community building
> activities, and building a better 'best practises network'
> with people and organisations who have done it.
>
> We all agreed that - rather than continuing discussion in private - it
> would
> make more sense to open this discussion up to others on this list!
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://www.inria.fr/en/institute/inria-in-brief
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Peter Suber <peter.suber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd be glad to stay in the loop for this discussion.
> >
> > In May 2009, Stuart Shieber did a systematic survey of the journals in
> > the DOAJ, and found that 70% were no-fee. As far as I know, that's the
> > most recent systematic survey.
> > http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2009/05/29/what-percentage-of-op
> > en-access-journals-charge-publication-fees/
> >
> > The DOAJ doesn't maintain a separate list of the no-fee journals. But
> > if you browse the journals by field, the journal record will tell you
> > whether or not the journal charges a publication fee. Here are the
> > journals in botany just to show some examples. Look at the first two
> > listed. The first charges a fee and second doesn't.
> > http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=subject&cpid=72&uiLanguage=en
> >
> > I've written about OA journals several times over the years, most
> > recently (not very recently!) in November 2006, when most people
> > didn't even realize they existed, let alone that they constituted the
> majority of OA journals.
> > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/11-02-06.htm#nofee
> >
> > I haven't seen a "handbook" of no-fee OA journal publishing. If you
> > compile one, it would be very useful. Meantime, see the list of OA
> > journal business models at the Open Access Directory.
> > http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_journal_business_models
> >
> > This list has no entry for "no-fee" OA journals because "no-fee" isn't
> > a business model. Instead, look at the business models other than
> > "publication fees" and "submission fees".
> >
> >      Best,
> >      Peter S.
> >
> > Peter Suber
> > gplus.to/petersuber
>
>
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