The misleading potential of these figures is in the column Type (percentages). This refers to the percentage of journals with charges in a certain price range. The percentages of articles published for which these prices have been paid will likely show that the vast majority is in full OA journals.
A similar effect occurs in the oft-mentioned fact that "the majority of 'gold' OA journals don't levy article charges". Undoubtedly true. But that 'majority' is unlikely to have published, in the aggregate, more than a tiny fraction of the total OA articles published. Or have any Impact Factor at all. Jan Velterop On 12 Oct 2012, at 16:30, ANDREW Theo wrote: > 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:ross.mou...@gmail.com] > 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 <theo.and...@ed.ac.uk> 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 > GOAL@eprints.org > 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 > -/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/- > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
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