[GOAL] Elsevier as an open access publisher

[Reme Melero]

Hi,

I agree with Bo-Christer's comments, and it is exactly what has happened 
in Spain with the most stablished biomedical/medical journals currently 
published by Elsevier /Elsevier España. Elsevier acquired Doyma several 
years ago, Doyma used to have a medical/biomedical portfolio of Spanish 
international journals most of them owned by well established/recognised 
learned/scientific/proffesional  societies. The result is that some of 
them are gratis immediately or after and embargo because are sponsored 
by their societies. If you want to see and check some of those,  visit 
our directory Dulcinea ( 
http://www.accesoabierto.net/dulcinea/default.php?directorio=dulcinea&campo=EDITORIAL&texto=elsevier&formato=tabla).
Best wishes

Reme Melero
CSIC scientist researcher
FOSTER partner





when El 15/01/2017 11:11, Bo-Christer Björk escribió:
> Hi,
>
> before jumping to any sorts of conclusions, it important to look at 
> what kind of journasl published by Elsevier are full OA (and often 
> without APCs). A quick look at the list at 
> https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals, 
> shows that many are society or university journals from different 
> parts of the world, mainly from outside the USA, UK etc. These 
> journals are free to publish in because they are sponsored by the 
> societies in question. If somebody did a study of the regional 
> distribution of authorship in these I'd suspect that the authorship 
> was strongly skewed to the countries and regions of the societies. I'm 
> also pretty certain that the average article volume are lower the the 
> Elsevier average.
>
> Remember the silly controversy caused by Jeffrey Beall's 
> characterising Scielo as a publication favela, where he recommended 
> for local journals to partner with the internally leading publishers 
> instead? We'll this shows an in-between option. Unfortunately the 
> option is probably not open to all journals, again without doing an 
> analysis, I would guess there is a strong bias towards biomedicine and 
> well established journals, which would be attractive for a big 
> commercial publisher to have in its portfolio.
>
> Bo-Christer
>
>
>> On 13 Jan 2017, at 18:57, Heather Morrison 
>> <Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca <mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>> wrote:
>>
>> Elsevier is now one of the world's largest open access publishers as 
>> measured by the number of fully OA journals published. What are the 
>> implications? I'd love to hear your thoughts, on list or on the SKC 
>> blogpost (see link below).
>>
>> Morrison, H. (2017). From the field: Elsevier as an open access 
>> publisher. The Charleston Advisor 18:3, pp. 53-59 doi 
>> https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53 
>> <https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53>
>> Abstract:
>>
>> Highlights of this broad-brush case study of Elsevier's Open Access 
>> (OA) journals as of 2016: Elsevier offers 511 fully OA journals and 
>> 2,149 hybrids. Most fully OA journals do not charge article 
>> processing charges (APCs). APCs of fully OA journals average $660 US 
>> ($1,731 excluding no-fee journals); hybrid OA averages $2,500. A 
>> practice termed author nominal copyright is observed, where copyright 
>> is in the name of the author although the author contract is 
>> essentially a copyright transfer. The prospects for a full Elsevier 
>> flip to OA via APC payments for articles going forward are considered 
>> and found to be problematic.
>>
>> Sustaining Knowledge Commons blogpost for comments:
>> https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/01/13/elsevier-as-an-open-access-publisher/ 
>>
>>
>> best,
>>
>> Dr. Heather Morrison
>> Assistant Professor
>> École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
>> University of Ottawa
>> http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
>> Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
>> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>>
>>
>>
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