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

[Bo-Christer Björk]

Dear all

You may find the green copies of some recent articles by myself and 
David Solomon at

http://openaccesspublishing.org/

of interest

Our studies provides some empirical data concerning some of the issues 
discussed during the recent discussion on this list

Bo-Christer Björk

On 10/12/12 5:11 PM, ANDREW Theo wrote:
> 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/
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> 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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