[GOAL] OA APC longitudinal study: 2016 dataset and documentation

[Heather Morrison]

For those who are very interested in open access article processing charges details. As a reminder, early results show 65% of fully OA journals are free-to-publish and the global average APC is $840 USD, down from 2014. This should be interpreted with caution as a decrease in the global average may not reflect the trend for particular journals or publishers.

Summary description:

This dataset includes information on open access journals derived from publisher websites and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), developed as the base for a longitudinal study on the open access article processing charges (APC) method used by about a third of open access journals. In the APC business model, a payment is made, by an author, institution, or funding agency, for publishing an article so that the article can be freely available to everyone (open access). This dataset also includes 2015 APC data provided by Crawford [2], 2010 APC data provided by Solomon and Björk [3], a smaller set of pilot project data collected by the research team in 2013, and a fuller set of data collected on APCs by the research team in 2014 and 2015, as well as additional data relating to APC sub-model (e.g., variations in pricing, page versus article charges), analysis of publisher type, and a custom subject analysis. To date, these data were used as the basis for a 2014 DOAJ APC survey [4]. This project received funding from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council under the Insight Development Grant program for 2014–2016 and is currently funded under an Insight Grant for 2016 – 2021. At present, there is keen interest from research funders, libraries, scholars, and publishers on the economics of transition to open access. This dataset will facilitate and speed up the work of other researchers, and this document describing the data is necessary to understand and analyse the data

Dataset available for download here:
https://dataverse.scholarsportal.info/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.5683/SP/KC2NBV

Documentation preprint available here:
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/03/08/oa-apc-longitudinal-study-2016-dataset/

Early results (repeat):

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/02/22/oa-apcs-in-2016-average-840-usd-price-skew-at-low-end-of-range/

https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/02/22/oa-journals-study-2016-65-free-to-publish/

best,

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Dr. Heather Morrison
Assistant Professor
École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies
University of Ottawa
Desmarais 111-02
613-562-5800 ext. 7634
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons: Open Access Scholarship
http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/
http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html
Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca<mailto:Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca>


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