Thanks to a file supplied by DOAJ community manager Dominic Mitchell, we can
confirm that 64% or about two-thirds of the journals added to DOAJ since March
2014 do not have article processing charges (720 No charges, 403 Yes charges,
total 1,123). Although there may be differences between this
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
*Alicia Wise wrote*
http://www.elsevier.com/connect/coar-recting-the-record#comment-2037996108
:
*Dear Stevan,*
*I admire your vision and passion for green open access – in fact we all do
here at Elsevier - and for your tenacity as your definitions and concepts
of green open access have
Stevan
The point you make is important. Elsevier HAS changed its policy and in fact
the difference is that the peer-review process, done for free by academics, is
now under embargo, whereas it wasn’t before. So you are right to mention that
Elsevier is backpedalling on OA. The pre-print,
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
