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Hi,<br>
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I agree with Bo-Christer's comments, and it is exactly what has
happened in Spain with the most stablished biomedical/medical
journals currently published by Elsevier /Elsevier España. Elsevier
acquired Doyma several years ago, Doyma used to have a
medical/biomedical portfolio of Spanish international journals most
of them owned by well established/recognised
learned/scientific/proffesional societies. The result is that some
of them are gratis immediately or after and embargo because are
sponsored by their societies. If you want to see and check some of
those, visit our directory Dulcinea (
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.accesoabierto.net/dulcinea/default.php?directorio=dulcinea&campo=EDITORIAL&texto=elsevier&formato=tabla">http://www.accesoabierto.net/dulcinea/default.php?directorio=dulcinea&campo=EDITORIAL&texto=elsevier&formato=tabla</a>).<br>
Best wishes<br>
<br>
Reme Melero<br>
CSIC scientist researcher<br>
FOSTER partner<br>
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when El 15/01/2017 11:11, Bo-Christer Björk escribió:
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca" class="">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a>>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53" class="">https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53</a>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53" class="">https://doi.org/10.5260/chara.18.3.53</a>><br
class="">
Abstract:<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="">
<br class="">
Sustaining Knowledge Commons blogpost for comments:<br
class="">
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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best,<br class="">
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Dr. Heather Morrison<br class="">
Assistant Professor<br class="">
École des sciences de l'information / School of
Information Studies<br class="">
University of Ottawa<br class="">
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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
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</a><br class="">
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