[GOAL] Gold OA: Publication costs and journal impact factors

[ANDREW Theo]

Dear All,

I'd like to draw your attention to a piece of work we have carried out which looks at Gold OA fees and journal impact factors:

http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/openscholarship/2012/10/02/impact-cost/

In short, it appears that 1) hybrid journals generally charge more than full OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and 2) hybrid journals with high impact factors charge significantly more than other types of journal for gold open access. 

I find this apparent correlation between journal impact factor and cost worrying and would welcome feedback. Is this something that other people are seeing or have we got our facts wrong?

Kind regards, Theo
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