<div dir="ltr">Elsevier self-report (trustworthy?) more relevant article-level data here:<div><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-publishing-a-look-at-the-numbers-and-more">https://www.elsevier.com/connect/elsevier-publishing-a-look-at-the-numbers-and-more</a></div><div><br></div><div>"We ended 2015 as the 4th largest open access publisher, with 20,000 open access (author or funder paid) articles in 2015."</div><div><br></div><div>Note, to make themselves look good, they are counting _just_ articles published in 2015 for this statistic/ranking (not total articles all-time, as they would be further down the rankings!) and it heavily relies upon the inclusion of hybrid "open access" (?) content, not just articles published in fully OA journal titles.</div><div><br></div><div>Heather: do you know the number of _articles_ Elsevier has published in their fully open access journals? That would be the more informative statistic to report.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 January 2017 at 20:47, Ross Mounce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ross.mounce@gmail.com" target="_blank">ross.mounce@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On 13 January 2017 at 16:57, Heather Morrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" target="_blank">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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?</blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>There are precisely no implications.</div><div><br></div><div>The number of journals is an utterly irrelevant measure, but I'm assuming you already knew this. </div><div><div>Journals are just vessels for content. It is actual content that is important.</div></div><div>Article volume is what counts in publishing (economically), and Elsevier are nowhere near the largest when it comes to immediate OA publishing. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Most of Elsevier's fully OA journals are recently created and are low-volume. They can create and close (e.g. <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-plant-science/" target="_blank">https://www.journals.<wbr>elsevier.com/new-negatives-in-<wbr>plant-science/</a> ) journals at the click of button. </div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps though this is part of Elsevier's strategy - at a very very superficial level (e.g. counting journal titles) it looks like they are deeply invested in open access publishing. I hope no politicians or librarians are fooled by this simple ruse.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Ross</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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