[GOAL] De Gruyter / Sciendo 2019 growth, ANSInet APC decreases

[Heather Morrison]

Two recent posts on the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons blog that may be of interest:

De Gruyter and Sciendo open access journals expanding in 2019
by Hamid Pashaei and Heather Morrison

Abstract
De Gruyter is a well-known traditional academic publisher with 270 years of experience. We first noted the dramatic expansion of De Gruyter into open access publishing in 2016 (French: Dumais-DesRosiers, M. & Brutus, W. (2016); English: Morrison (2016). In 2014, there were no De Gruyter titles listed in DOAJ; by the end of 2015, De Gruyter was the third largest publisher in DOAJ. In 2019, De Gruyter’s expansion into open access is even more remarkable, primarily through De Gruyter’s new imprint Sciendo, which has added more than 300 OA journals in 2019. The majority of De Gruyter / Sciendo journals (57%) do not charge APCs. In many cases we were not able to ascertain whether or not there is a fee.

Details:
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/10/16/de-gruyter-and-sciendo-open-access-journals-expanding-in-2019/

Finding: article processing fees decreased by ANSInet
by Anqi Shi

Highlights
According to the Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSInet) website, the article processing charges (APCs) for almost all the listed journals dropped from 625 USD in 2018 to 325 USD in 2019 which is 48 percent decrease...ANSInet is included in our study as this publisher was formerly in DOAJ. ANSInet no longer listed in DOAJ...

Details:
https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2019/10/16/finding-article-processing-charges-apcs-decreased-in-ansinet/

Comments are appreciated, on the blog is the best way to communicate with the authors.

best,


Dr. Heather Morrison

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa

Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC Insight Project

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Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca

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[On research sabbatical July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020]
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