[GOAL] Re: Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges

2015-05-26 Thread GRUTTEMEIER, Herbert
de Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen) Envoyé : lundi 25 mai 2015 20:40 À : Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Objet : [GOAL] Re: Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges Heather, these are useful data, but in the interpretation of these we will have to reckon

[GOAL] Re: Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges

2015-05-25 Thread Bosman, J.M. (Jeroen)
Heather, these are useful data, but in the interpretation of these we will have to reckon with journal size distributions. What would be helpful is having data on the number of articles in these journals. It is very likely that smaller journals are overrepresented in the non-APC OA group and

[GOAL] Re: Two-thirds of DOAJ journals do not have article processing charges

2015-05-25 Thread Heather Morrison
It is important to understand that the majority of open access journals do not have article processing charges, to avoid over-estimating the portion of open access publishing funded by APCs. The number of open access articles, both in total and as correlated with a number of variables