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<div class="">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 <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals" class="">https://www.elsevier.com/about/open-science/open-access/open-access-journals</a>,
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.</div>
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<div class="">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.</div>
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<div class="">On 13 Jan 2017, at 18:57, Heather Morrison <<a href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" class="">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">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).
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Morrison, H. (2017). From the field: Elsevier as an open access publisher. The Charleston Advisor 18:3, pp. 53-59 doi
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53" class="">https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53</a> <<a href="https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53" class="">https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53</a>><br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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Sustaining Knowledge Commons blogpost for comments:<br class="">
<a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/01/13/elsevier-as-an-open-access-publisher/" class="">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2017/01/13/elsevier-as-an-open-access-publisher/</a>
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Dr. Heather Morrison<br class="">
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École des sciences de l'information / School of Information Studies<br class="">
University of Ottawa<br class="">
<a href="http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html" class="">http://www.sis.uottawa.ca/faculty/hmorrison.html</a><br class="">
Sustaining the Knowledge Commons http://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/<br class="">
Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca<br class="">
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