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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some recent observations from the Sustaining the Knowledge Commons team that may be of interest to list members:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><b>Medknow in 2018 - growing fast!</b></p>
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Hamid Pashaei and Heather Morrison</span></em></p>
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<a aria-label="Medknow is a commercial scholarly journal publisher based in India, which was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2011. The analysis of Medknow’s journals in 2018 shows that there has been a significant increase in number oftheir journals, with 23% increase comparing to 2017. It appears that most of Medknow’s journals are published in collaboration with different universitiesand societies in the filed of medical research. (opens in a new tab)" href="http://www.medknow.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(177, 41, 48); text-decoration-line: none;" id="LPlnk735042" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medknow</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is
a commercial scholarly journal publisher based in India, which was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2011. The analysis of Medknow’s journals in 2018 shows that there has been a significant increase in number of their journals, with 23% increase comparing to 2017.
It appears that most of Medknow’s journals are published in collaboration with different universities and societies in the field of medical research.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Details: </span><a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/12/13/medknow-in-2018-growing-fast/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk893063"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/12/13/medknow-in-2018-growing-fast/</span></a>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Elsevier 2018: decrease in OA journals</b></span></div>
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in 2017, we found that Elsevier was publishing a large number of fully open access journals with no article processing charges due to society or university sponsorships. In 2018, 88 of these titles have been transferred back to the society or university. There
has been a drop in the number of fully OA journals published by Elsevier, from 416 to 328 journals. The majority of Elsevier’s fully OA journals are still non-charging. The average APC for Elsevier fully OA journals in 2018 is $1,470 USD, up 6% from 2017.</span></p>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Details: </span></div>
<a href="https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/12/13/elsevier-in-2018-decrease-in-number-of-fully-oa-journals/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk995369" previewremoved="true"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/2018/12/13/elsevier-in-2018-decrease-in-number-of-fully-oa-journals/</span></a></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université d'Ottawa</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Heather.Morrison@uottawa.ca</span><br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons</span></p>
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