So it seems double-dipping unless it's honest? Perhaps it's honest
unless it's clearly double-dipping.
A very wide-spread misconception, on this list and elsewhere, is that
subscriptions somehow are priced linearly. That if 10% of the papers
are OA, and paid for on behalf or by the author, the
I cannot find -- in Jan's explanation, below, of the nonlinear nature
of subscription journal pricing -- the response to the pair of points
I raised. So I will try to repeat them, in context:
(1) Yes, if and when subscriptions are all cancelled, and journals
have downsized to providing only the
On 5-Jul-09, at 4:37 AM, Jan Velterop wrote:
So it seems double-dipping unless it's honest? Perhaps it's honest
unless it's clearly double-dipping.
A very wide-spread misconception, on this list and elsewhere, is that
subscriptions somehow are priced linearly.
Comment:
Publisher revenue is
Two thoughts here 1) shouldn't an increase in the size of the journal be
factored into the discussion before making the 'double-dipping' charge and 2)
PLOS One has published ~6000 articles while the Journal of Biological Chemistry
(and probably several others) have published almost 10,000
Heather Morrison:
If 10% of last year's revenue
stream is coming from publication charges, prices should be decreased
by 10%. OR, libraries and others such as funding agencies,
departments, etc., should not support the publication charges.
While I have seen publishers claim that OA uptake is
** Apologies for Cross-Posting **
Fullly hyperlinked version of this posting:
http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/606-guid.html
Critique of: Romary, L Armbruster, C. (2009) Beyond
Institutional Repositories.
Clarification: PLoS One is among the world's largest journals,
anticipating publication of about 4,800 articles in 2009 - it is not
THE largest journal, at least not yet.
If anyone has data about average annual output of the world's largest
journals, that would be most helpful. If PLoS One does
Heather Morrison:
If 10% of last year's revenue
stream is coming from publication charges, prices should be decreased
by 10%. OR, libraries and others such as funding agencies,
departments, etc., should not support the publication charges.
[Bill Hjooker:}
While I have seen publishers claim
PLOS One at 4800 articles in 2009 will clearly be one of the largest journals,
only PHYS REV B (5782) and APPL PHYS LETT (5449) published more articles in
2008.
Other journals in the 'largest' category, with their 2008 article counts, are:
J APPL PHYS (4168)
PHYS REV LETT (3905)
J BIOL
