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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Re:
</span>Business/economics with a delay of 18 months took twice as long as chemistry with a 9 month average delay. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I checked with the Royal Society of Chemistry and find that:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Journals:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Average receipt to advance article publication across all journals for a paper is 80-85 days, for a communication 60 days, and a ChemComm [a communications journal] 50 days.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">This could be one of the benefits of a responsible society publisher … namely a resource of responsible peer-reviewers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> goal-bounces@eprints.org [mailto:goal-bounces@eprints.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stevan Harnad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 13, 2013 6:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> BOAI Forum<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); ASIS&T Special Interest Group on Metrics<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GOAL] Publication Lags, Green OA Embargoes and the Liege/HEFCE/BIS Immediate-Deposit Mandate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 2013-09-13, at 7:20 AM, David Solomon <<a href="mailto:dsolomon@msu.edu">dsolomon@msu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have made the data available for the paper: "The publishing delay in scholarly peer-reviewed<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Abstract: </b>Publishing in scholarly peer reviewed journals usually entails long delays from<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">submission to publication. In part this is due to the length of the peer review process and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">paper-based publishing, which creates backlogs of manuscripts waiting in line. The delays<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-tab-span"> </span>Using a stratified random sample we studied average publishing delays in 2700 papers<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">published in 135 journals sampled from the Scopus citation index. The shortest overall<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">delays occur in science technology and medical (STM) fields and the longest in social<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Now it's time to put two and two together (and this pertains more to the lag between <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">1. The research community is clamoring for access, particularly those who are denied<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. The average delay from acceptance to publication for subscription journals is about<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. Björk and Solomon point out that for Gold OA journals the delay is much shorter:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5. The delay for Green OA self-archiving is even shorter: zero if self-archiving<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. Subscription journals say they are in favor of OA, but they need an embargo in order <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7. Subscription journals already have a built-in "embargo" because of the 6-month<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8. So the 6-12-month Green OA embargoes demanded by STEM fields and even <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">longer embargoes demanded by arts & humanities journals not only impedes research <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is why the <a href="http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/853-guid.html">Liege-model immediate-deposit mandate</a> ( together with the <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It makes it possible for researchers to request -- and authors to provide -- immediate<o:p></o:p></p>
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