Hi Ross and others, Apologies - friday afternoon gremlins have crept into our blogging platform breaking the link. Here's a sanitised extract of the data:
Price range JIF Range JIF Mean JIF Median Number of articles Type £0-£999 2.263 - 10.472 4.849 4.537 41 44% hybrid 56% full OA £1000-£1999 0.856 -15.389 6.328 5.117 108 63% hybrid 37% full OA £2000-£2999 0.986 - 12.594 4.411 3.441 61 100% hybrid < £3000 5.971 - 15.710 12.363 10.881 17 100% hybrid The hugely elevated costs for some high impact factor journals are plainly not justified, and is another reason why the fascination with impact factors is detrimental. Put simply, looking at the figures large research institutions cannot afford Gold OA as it currently stands so Green OA will have to step up and be counted. Theo From: Ross Mounce [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 12 October 2012 15:39 To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci); ANDREW Theo Subject: Re: [GOAL] Gold OA: Publication costs and journal impact factors Dear Theo, That link didn't work for me. I agree with those observations. I also find it ludicrous that such 'high impact factor' journals feel they can charge much higher prices for hybrid gold (even though they provide exactly the same services) relative to the 'lower impact factor' journals who may even be of a higher technical quality e.g. Pensoft Publishing journals & and their XML and other additional services. Have you seen my plot of Gold OA prices by publisher/society? http://rossmounce.co.uk/2012/09/04/the-gold-oa-plot-v0-2/ and version 0.1 here http://rossmounce.co.uk/2012/08/30/a-visualization-of-gold-open-access-options/ The data behind this is also freely available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtbO6mZEvieCdDFzdkVNQld6Mnc5NEpGWVlRUVhvM3c perhaps it might be nice to merge our data if there is any overlap? Best, Ross On 12 October 2012 15:11, ANDREW Theo <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear All, I'd like to draw your attention to a piece of work we have carried out which looks at Gold OA fees and journal impact factors: http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/openscholarship/2012/10/02/impact-cost/ In short, it appears that 1) hybrid journals generally charge more than full OA journals independent of journal impact factor, and 2) hybrid journals with high impact factors charge significantly more than other types of journal for gold open access. I find this apparent correlation between journal impact factor and cost worrying and would welcome feedback. Is this something that other people are seeing or have we got our facts wrong? Kind regards, Theo __________________________ Theo Andrew Research Publications Service Edinburgh University Library tel. 0131 651 3850 web. http://bit.ly/UoE-RPS post. 4 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9LW. skype. theoandrew -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal -- -- -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- Ross Mounce PhD Student & Open Knowledge Foundation Panton Fellow Fossils, Phylogeny and Macroevolution Research Group University of Bath, 4 South Building, Lab 1.07 http://about.me/rossmounce -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-
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