Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Morrison, Heather

doi:10.5210/fm.v18i6.4370

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“…The 2014 global average APC of $964 USD reported by Morrison et al (2013) is very similar to the 2011 global average of $906 USD reported by Solomon & Björk (2012 Other research targets include both fully OA and hybrid journals. recently released a major study of 7,629 APC payment records from four European APC payment databases and 14,356 APC payments from five large North American based universities committed to APCs through the Pay it Forward project.…”

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“…According to Morrison (2013), the current global spend by academic libraries is more than sufficient to fund a fully Open Access scholarly publishing system. There is potential to transition the system and achieve significant cost savings at the same time.…”

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“…Morrison [11] argues that behind the variety of models for economic support for open access journals, the basic underlying strategy involves shifting from demand-side to supply-side economics. Instead of charging readers and librarians for subscriptions, licenses, or purchase of scholarly works, open access business models involve supporting the production costs.…”

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Abstract:As of May 2014, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) listed close to ten thousand fully open access, peer reviewed, scholarly journals. Most of these journals do not charge article processing charges (APCs). This article reports the results of a survey of the 2567 journals, or 26% of journals listed in DOAJ, that do have APCs based on a sample of 1432 of these journals. Results indicate a volatile sector that would make future APCs difficult to predict for budgeting purposes. DOAJ and publisher title lists often did not closely match. A number of journals were found on examination not to have APCs. A wide range of publication costs was found for every publisher type. The average (mean) APC of $964 contrasts with a mode of $0. At least 61% of publishers using APCs are commercial in nature, while many publishers are of unknown types. The vast majority of journals charging APCs (80%) were found to offer one or more variations on pricing, such as discounts for authors from mid to low income countries, differential pricing based on article type, institutional or society membership, and/or optional charges for extras such as English language editing services or fast track of articles. The complexity and volatility of this publishing landscape is discussed.

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“…Entre ellos, la adaptación a los cambios asociados al desarrollo de la filosofía del acceso abierto (Crow y Goldstein, 2003;Chi Chang, 2006;Lamberti y Solaro, 2011;Dai y otros, 2014;Das, 2015;Schimmer y otros, 2015); las discusiones y propuestas en torno a la viabilidad financiera de las revistas (Björk y Hedlund, 2009;Crow, 2009;Houghton y otros, 2009;Morrison, 2013); los debates en torno a los índices de calidad o de impacto (Bordons y otros, 2002;Björk y Solomon, 2012;Riera y Aibar, 2013); la preocupación por la visibilidad y el posicionamiento internacional de las revistas científicas (Buela Casal, 2001;Abadal y Rius Alcaraz, 2008;Aréchaga, 2009;Rodríguez-Yunta, 2015) y, más recientemente, el impacto de los requerimientos de la ley y las normativas universitarias que obligan a poner a disposición pública los resultados de la investigación financiada con fondos públicos y otros desafíos políticos de la ciencia abierta (Friend, 2011;Abadal y otros, 2013; Rodríguez-Yunta y Giménez-Toledo, 2013; Alonso y Echevarría, 2014; García Arístegui y Rendueles, 2014).…”

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La edición de revistas científicas en España: una aproximación descriptiva

2017

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A nna V il la r ro ya P lan a s    Facultad de Biblioteconomía y Documentación. Universidad de Barcelona.Resumen: El objetivo principal de este artículo es describir el perfil de las revistas científicas españolas. Los resultados que se presentan proceden de una encuesta a 1.280 revistas científicas españolas incluidas en la base de datos Dulcinea (edición 2012), obteniendo una tasa de respuesta del 43,8% (n=561). Como objetivos específicos, el estudio se planteó caracterizar las revistas científicas y analizar las peculiaridades de las mismas en torno a una serie de parámetros que conforman las dimensiones económico-financiera, estratégica y operativa de las revistas en el periodo observado. El análisis ha permitido observar cómo el modelo de financiación de las revistas científicas españolas se sostiene principalmente de las ayudas institucionales, cómo la mayoría de las revistas carece de una estructura organizativa estable y depende, en gran medida, del trabajo voluntario y cómo el debate sobre las limitaciones y dificultades que afectan al desarrollo del acceso abierto sigue vigente. Palabras clave: revistas científicas; España; financiación; acceso abierto. Title: THE SPANISH SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: A DESCRIPTIVE APPROACH.Abstract: The main objective of this article is to present a broad description of Spanish scientific journals. The results were obtained from a survey distributed to 1,280 editors of Spanish scientific journals included in Dulcinea database (2012 edition). The response rate was 43,8%. As specific objectives, the study aimed to characterize scientific journals and to analyze the particularities of a set of parameters that make up the economic, strategic and operational dimensions of the journals in the period studied. The results show that the funding model of the Spanish scientific journals depends mainly on institutional support, that many journals lack a stable organizational structure and rely heavily on volunteer work, and that the debate on the limitations and difficulties affecting the development of open access remains open.

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Economics of scholarly communication in transition

Cited by 23 publications

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From the Field: Elsevier as an Open Access Publisher

From the Field: Elsevier as an Open Access Publisher

Open Access Article Processing Charges: DOAJ Survey May 2014

La edición de revistas científicas en España: una aproximación descriptiva

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