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

[Peter Murray-Rust]

Thanks Theo this is very valuable. Data is key to an informed debate.

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 4:30 PM, ANDREW Theo <Theo.Andrew at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

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Summary table snipped.

Are you planning to make this data Openly available? It clearly interacts
strongly with Ross's table.

Part of the problem in this area is that distributions are extremely
skewed. Thus Peter Suber has found that "most open access journals charge
no APCs or subscription" but this reflects the long tail of small
publishers. It's intrinsically very difficult to produce summary tables
that give all the messages.

There could be a role here for crowdsourcing some of this data collection.
There are a lot of interested parties and many would - I think - be
prepared to contribute data when they coma across it. It's also a way of
ensuring consistency/compatibility the different approaches needed.

P.

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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