[GOAL] Positive example: Springer

[Éric Archambault]

Dear all
Yesterday I was complaining about the fact that journals were not transparent about their gold à la pièce.
Here is an example of a positive step in the right direction:
http://link.springer.com/journal/10645
Here, one can see clearly what the OA papers are, and one can calculate the proportion of Gold to locked papers.
The stats for this journal reveals that 83/10,429 papers are gold à la pièce (aka hybrid).
This helps library determine if they are taken for a ride (i.e. with double dipping).
I’ll see whether and how Science-Metrix could start monitoring these journals to see how much more they get cited (or less, as this is a hypothesis!) – this would show the golden benefits to scientific publishers.
Well, Kudo to Springer! The company should definitely be congratulated for leading the way among the big three, it is the least afraid of embracing OA, the most transparent, and likely to be coming out on top following the transition to OA (which certainly won’t be a simple flip, as Stevan said, rather a Escher impossible-figure, an evolutionarily unstable strategy. As Schumpeter said, these are certainly gales of creative destruction, and let’s hope that more progressive publishers such as Springer destroy the market share of dinosaurs!).
Éric Archambault
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